Sentence examples for extort payment from inspiring English sources

This particular bus lands in Quetzal City, which has endured an epidemic of violence in which armed gangs extort payment from the drivers to keep their passengers safe.

It may also be that the missing men were heading to the United States and that the gangs took them off the bus to extort payment to get them across the border.

Imagine, for example, a protection racket in which gangs extort payment from fearful shopkeepers.

The company described the investigation as a rogue move by Steve Jacobs, and Adelson has accused Jacobs of lying to extort payment from his former employer.

Security officials are said to extort payments from the oil thieves in return for protection, according to Chatham House.

Three years later, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to extort payments from companies seeking licenses to do business in Alabama while he was in office.

The Mong Kok area is notorious for organized gangs or triads that extort payments from the many small businesses there, or in some cases own the businesses.

Over the next eight years Warner, Udstuen and Ryan engaged in various conspiracies to extort payments from vendors.

This includes mobile worms on your phone that buy malicious apps so that the creators of the malware will profit, as well as ransomware kits that allow criminals without programming skills to extort payments from you.

They killed the mayor and ten councillors, extorted payments from local businesses and used the surrounding villages to hold kidnap victims seized in the capital.

The next step for CAR is disarmament and reintegration for fighters in the splintered groups that prey on rival communities, stealing cattle, enslaving families and extorting payments.