Sentence examples for of a substantial bribe from inspiring English sources

Finally, Chan and Sukumaran's lawyer has alleged that judges in the Denpasar district court requested payment of a substantial bribe to avoid giving the death penalty to them.

Jeffreys browbeat witnesses and juries, cursing his victims, gloating over them and giving guilt the benefit of every doubt except where a substantial bribe had been paid.

Translation: it's amazing what kinds of crises can be made to disappear with a substantial bribe.

According to evidence submitted at a preliminary hearing, he was captured on tape offering Touré a substantial bribe to destroy a number of documents.

In Benin, for example, President Mathieu Kerekou is reported to have offered members of parliament substantial bribes to support a third term, but civil society mobilization and opposition politicians successfully agitated and the attempt was abandoned.

A series of high level officials have been accused of receiving substantial bribes from drug traffickers.

Indeed there IS evidence of a bribe – Chevron bribed Guerra to make up this story.

Claims that Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) covered up evidence of police corruption in a high-profile money-laundering case have been given new weight after the discovery of a substantial number of documents suggesting an officer did take bribes.

Judge Antonio Di Pietro, the hero of Italy's long-running corruption scandal, called in more than half a dozen of fashion's biggest names and caused them to confess to paying substantial bribes to a band of rogue tax inspectors.

But some brokers are believed to pay illegal and substantial bribes in the form of premiums above a ticket's face price to people who control tickets at the original point of sale.

Substantial bribes have been offered; she never takes them.