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Second, in both cases a government released the identity of a relatively obscure public official in order to further its political ends.
Once, Dixit told me, a staffer from the Bangladeshi embassy came to a Himal-sponsored screening posing as a government official in order to intimidate organizers.
And in the upscale neighborhood of Tuymalik, Alan Nihad, 33, said he had to be endorsed by a P.U.K. party official in order to be certified as an orthopedic surgeon.
A man who has a trucking business complained that he had to pay a 10 percent bribe to a petty official in order to get a certificate proving he paid a transport tax on his vehicle.
One recurring difficulty in examining cases of public corruption is discovering which of the parties involved took the initiative in the transaction i.e., whether the payment was offered to a public official in order to influence his official behaviour (bribery) or demanded by him in exchange for special consideration or services (extortion).
In addition, I conducted and interview with a key Destination Unknown official in order to gather insights on the actual running of the campaign.
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