Sentence examples for middlemen including from inspiring English sources

They mostly worked through middlemen, including Lebanese political figures who had long been part of their patronage network.

To secure the lucrative contract, Balladur's Defense Ministry had agreed to pay a commission of more than fifty million euros to various middlemen, including Pakistani military bosses.

Technology is a powerful tool that is increasingly being used to connect buyers and sellers far more efficiently and cutting out all sorts of middlemen, including retail merchants, newspaper ad sellers and, now, even brothel madams.

Its investigators started to get close to the Saudi royal family, uncovering evidence of huge sums being paid to Swiss bank accounts linked to middlemen including the well-connected billionaire Wafic Said.

The rising list prices have resulted in ever bigger rebates — meaning the benefit from price increases goes not just to drug companies, but to middlemen including pharmacy benefit managers, retail pharmacies, health insurers and wholesalers.

The UN investigators claim, in a report presented to the UN Security Council, that profits from Kismayo's exports are divided between rebels, the region's government and members of the Kenyan army which has guarded the port since its capture from the Shabab in 2012.Ports are but one link in a long supply chain that is taxed by the Shabab and other middlemen, including the regional government.

Foot dragging by the middlemen, who include currency changers, lawyers, insurance companies and hotels, continues to allow illegal money to be parked in Switzerland, most experts agree.

Under American law, arms dealers must notify the State Department of everyone they do business with in a given arms transfer, including middlemen, brokers, sellers and transport companies.

Other measures would require credit card companies to tell the IRS the aggregate annual sales of each merchant; force middlemen brokers (likely including Ebay) to report the proceeds for any sellers doing more than 100 transactions in a year; and require stockbrokers to report the cost basis of stocks their customers sell, making it easier for the IRS to cross-check capital gains.

The lawsuit also targets the so-called middlemen — wholesale distributors including McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen — saying they failed to report suspiciously large and frequent orders of prescription pain pills as required by state and federal law.

Governments must impose greater transparency on the use of middlemen, agents and brokers, including public disclosure of what they are paid and the details of the specific work they have undertaken.