Sentence examples for corruption and extortion from inspiring English sources

But soon they also began to display a shockingly large appetite for sectarian violence, corruption and extortion.

Since 2000, prosecutors have arrested hundreds of people involved with the highway, mostly on charges of corruption and extortion.

Bhutto, like Sharif earlier, had become bogged down responding to accusations of corruption and extortion, while the government foundered.

The general prosecutor's office said Mr. Okruashvili had been charged with corruption and extortion, according to a local television station.

Mr Peevski had been sacked from a previous Socialist-led government and prosecuted on corruption and extortion charges of which he was eventually cleared.

Zardari has no university degree and spent eleven years in prison on various charges ranging from corruption and extortion to murder.

Not only, then, is the Dominican Republic taking racist action – even if that isn't the government's intention – it is doing so in a way liable to open the flood gates to corruption, bribery and extortion.

Papa Massata Diack, who was one of three senior IAAF officials who were banned from athletics for life last month for inflicting "unprecedented damage" on the sport following a 20-month investigation into corruption, blackmail and extortion at the highest levels, is currently in Dakar.

The son of the former president of the IAAF, the head of the All-Russia AtheeteamFederation and the team's senior coach have been banned from athletics for life for inflicting "unprecedented damage" on the sport following a 20-month investigation into corruption, blackmail and extortion at the highest levels.

I don't even vote because I think the current US government is involved in the worst form of corruption and legal extortion imaginable.

Longley's claims of murders, institutionalised corruption, illegal bookmaking and extortion caused a sensation and led to the appointment of a royal commission in September that year, headed by the barrister Frank Costigan, who has died aged 78.