"dubious payments" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to payments made that seem questionable or suspicious for any reason, such as potential fraud or illegal activity. For example, "The company is under investigation for making dubious payments to a foreign government."
Most banks, Mr. Albertazzi said, employ special software to pinpoint dubious payments.
Der Spiegel, a news magazine, says the committee took at least three months last year to respond to reports of dubious payments being made via Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Another inquiry, in Sweden, is examining allegations of dubious payments made to Karimova associates by the Nordic telecoms firm TeliaSonera, which denies paying bribes.
Half of those were dubious payments to veterans of the civil war in an attempt by congressmen to win "the soldier vote .In this section Not quite what it seems A winner from Wisconsin?
In January, Four Oaks Bank in North Carolina paid $1m in fines to settle Justice Department claims that they gave direct access to a third-party payment processor to process dubious payments for online payday lenders.
Taking on a new life, three years after the row over dubious payments: the official Mohamedbinhammam.com website: "If you've been injured in a car accident that wasn't your fault, you may be entitled to claim compensation".
The thalidomide campaign was one of the high points in British journalism, even though it resulted from a legally dubious payment for confidential court documents, something to be remembered in current debates about the ethics of paying for information.
The German manoeuvre must be approved by the European Commission's statisticians, who are not immune to political pressure: they accepted both Italy's one-off Euro tax and a dubious payment by France Télécom to the French treasury.Worse, Germany's adoption of accounting tricks denounced by its own central bank makes it impossible to denounce others, especially Italy, for the same fault.
–Instruct employees to clarify any dubious payment requests.
He contended that the agency had exceeded its authority in handling the question of dubious corporate payments and that it had "failed terribly" by not establishing norms of conduct.
The series also revealed that the Kern County sheriff's office offered morally dubious cash payments to a number of women who had been sexually assaulted by sheriff's deputies, in exchange for their right to sue.
