Sentence examples for massive bribes from inspiring English sources

Foreign investors, especially in Africa's oil industry, have long paid massive bribes to politicians to win contracts or the rights to pump.

Dictators cannot steal millions of dollars from the state, nor accept massive bribes, if the money has to be kept under the bed.

But his spectacular fall culminated in Friday's announcement that he was accused of offences including abusing power and taking massive bribes.

Those allegations have never gone away; in December 2006 the government terminated the Serious Fraud Office investigation into claims that BAE had paid massive bribes to Saudi royals.

Mr. Yang, who has been under investigation by the commission since last year, "exploited his position to provide private gain for others and took massive bribes," the Xinhua report said.

The allegations of their paying massive bribes to Saudi royals in relation to the al-Yamamah arms deal have hardly dissipated after the UK government's shameful intervention to close down the SFO's investigation just as major breakthroughs might be achieved.

Details of the allegations against him are sketchy, but officials say they involve "massive bribe-taking" and "immoral behaviour".

They scorned Panorama's allegations of massive bribe-taking by three members of the executive committee, who would vote on the World Cup, as "an embarrassment to the BBC".

After all, not only have the authorities accused Mr. Bo of serial infidelity, "massive bribe taking" and abuse of power, but investigators have been exploring his role in covering up his wife's killing of a British businessman who she said was out to harm her son.

Belfort welcoming Denham aboard his flashy yacht, where he presents him with lobster, prostitutes, and a massive bribe, all of which Denham refuses with gusto.

Sending Guzmán to the United States would help allay fears the drug lord could use his massive fortune to bribe prison officials and escape yet again.