Sentence examples similar to extort bribe from inspiring English sources

Some are barrages economiques, set up to extort bribes from drivers.

Complying with them all is impossible, so officials routinely extort bribes for breaches.

What they are good at is harassing drunkards to extort bribes.

Other barriers erected by village militias exist, it appears, merely to extort bribes.

The problem is, we know the Russian police to extort bribes routinely.

First, the authorities extort bribes from smugglers and dealers, he said.

Many refugees claim they have been harassed by police, who have used the crackdown as an opportunity to extort bribes.

Officers sometimes order raids to curry political favor, he added, but low-paid soldiers want the Haitians around to extort bribes.

The immigration detention centres are sometimes run by corrupt officials who extort bribes and, in 2012, a young Afghan boy was beaten to death by guards.

In the cable, she discussed multiple reports of illegal activities by Mr. Aquilino Hurtado, including his possible involvement in schemes to extort bribes from a taxi union, steal public funds and ease trafficking of undocumented Chinese immigrants.

Rather than fan out over the vast and exposed city, the Ugandans will defend the airport, port, and road junctions where clan militias have tried to set up barricades to extort bribes.