Sentence examples for clandestine payments from inspiring English sources

After the CIA refused to play ball, Dean asked Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, to arrange clandestine payments to the burglars.

When Viscount Palmerston was prime minister, he made clandestine payments from secret service funds, which bought him the privilege of penning opinion pieces in praise of himself.

No evidence has been found that the clandestine payments amounted to bribes, but if any links were found to arms or real estate deals the effect would be shattering.

The US established a huge naval base on the island of Diego Garcia, the UK got millions of dollars in clandestine payments, and the Chagossians, Siatous among them, were expelled from their homes and sent thousands of miles away.

His former secretary, Renata Moura Alves, says that Mr. Luxemburgo was involved in a series of illegal schemes, from clandestine payments from the sale of player contracts to money laundering and the purchase of apartments, paintings and luxury automobiles through dummy companies to avoid taxes.

Citing what it called NATO and Western intelligence sources, the report said that the Italian secret service had made clandestine payments to the Taliban in the Sarobi district east of Kabul, without telling French forces who took over control in mid-2008.

Much of the debate turns on the fact that BAE made billions of dollars in clandestine and questionable payments to Saudi royals over the last 20 years as part of an $80 billion contract to supply the kingdom with advanced fighter jets and other military hardware.

A former City trader was sentenced to 19 months in prison on Thursday for his part in an insider trading scam involving multiple mobile phones, clandestine meetings in City pubs and payments for a luxury car and holiday.

It involved dozens of South African mercenaries and the shadowy security firm that employed them, millions of dollars in secret payments by the United Arab Emirates, a former clandestine officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, and Erik Prince, the billionaire former head of Blackwater Worldwide who was residing at the time in the emirates.

I am seeking to obtain a copy of a November 22, 2000, sentence handed down by Italy's final appeals court involving illicit political payments made by a All Iberian, a clandestine offshore company affiliated with Fininvest and Silvio Berlusconi.

He also cites the findings of the Moriarty tribunal, which concluded that a consortium formed by O'Brien to secure a mobile phone licence in the 1990s had succeeded because of payments made by O'Brien to the then communications minister in "clandestine circumstances".