Sentence examples for official bribery from inspiring English sources

When the Taliban were in power in the 1990s, corruption and official bribery were more limited.

The abandonment of the investigation provoked an outcry from anti-corruption campaigners, and led to the world's official bribery watchdog, the OECD, launching its own investigation.

The federal official bribery and gratuity statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201 (enacted 1962), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (enacted 1977), and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (enacted 1984) directly address public corruption.

"It was a system that was very much in place on every level, and it was a system that was very well oiled". It is alleged, and widely believed, that the system involved routine official bribery.

What's more, in vacating his conviction, the Court set a new standard for official-bribery cases that is so absurdly narrow that it will likely be almost impossible to convict any but the most bumbling politicians of the crime.

Official graft and commercial bribery remain pervasive, raising risks of liability under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, other nations' foreign bribery statutes like the new UK Bribery Act, and China's domestic law.

Convicting a public official of bribery requires the exchange of something of value for their influence in an "official act".

In these rulings the Supreme Court's conservative majority defined it narrowly as only the "quid pro quo" of payment for a specific action by an elected official — basically, bribery.

But that requires defining "corruption". In these rulings the Supreme Court's conservative majority defined it narrowly as only the "quid pro quo" of payment for a specific action by an elected official — basically, bribery.

United States officials have since indicted those seven and two other Fifa officials on bribery and racketeering charges.

The appointment was sought by federal prosecutors after the November indictment of the four I.B.F. officials on bribery charges.