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State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed to arrange the excursions.

He eventually left office in 1995 amid accusations he had been bribed by the Yakuza.

State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed.

The new administrator had been bribed into selling off the villagers' communal land, without consulting the village council.

She was reassured that the Indian customs officer had been bribed and it was going to be safe to leave.

Instead of destroying them, the police had been bribed by admiring colleagues to bring the things to the museum.

Officials at the time said some of the guards had been bribed to look the other way.

An American boxing official charged that ringside judges had been bribed to give Park a hometown decision.

Local officials signed off on risky, and ultimately very expensive, exotic bond deals that they barely understood — some after they had been bribed.

Nicholas, alleging that his men had been bribed, excommunicated Photius; a council at Constantinople responded (867) by excommunicating Nicholas in turn.

The Orbán government, prone to fanning paranoia and regularly conjuring conspiracy theories about foreign plots to undermine Hungary, insinuated the White House had been bribed.