Sentence examples for over bribes from inspiring English sources

"Consultants Investigated Over Bribes for Buildings".

Despite all the talk about customs bottlenecks and administrative delays, like it or not, for businesses to survive they must hand over bribes on a daily basis.

But the claim over bribes has been contradicted by Marc Gasiorowski, the leading historian of the American side of the coup, who interviewed some of the bribe-givers.

The outspoken Mr Tapie's main extra-political role is as president of Olympique Marseille, a French football team which is at the centre of a long-running scandal over bribes allegedly paid to a rival club.

(AP) MIDWEST ILLINOIS: OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO PRISON -- A former state inspector general and longtime friend of Gov. George Ryan's pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a scandal over bribes paid for Illinois driver's licenses.

The growth of an Olympics industry worth billions of dollars, presaged by the Los Angeles games, has provided new headaches for the current president, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain: not only over bribes but, perhaps more important, the growing use of drugs.

In a series of high-profile cases, where works of art have been shown to have been confiscated by the Nazis, or sold under pressure, or handed over as bribes to secure escape from Germany, restitution has been made.

Legal attacks on Khaleda Zia, admittedly an unsympathetic figure, are in full flow: an anti-corruption body charged her on August 8th; the same day a court issued a warrant for her exiled elder son over bribe-taking; in June a younger son was sentenced, in absentia, to six years in another graft case; in November she was evicted from her home.

Nine senior officials at the organisation, as well as five sports media and promotions executives, were charged by US prosecutors on Wednesday over alleged bribes totalling more than $150m£100m0m) over 24 years.

Nine senior Fifa officials, as well as five sports media and promotions executives, were charged by US prosecutors on Wednesday over alleged bribes totalling more than $150m£100m0m) over 24 years.

[Daily News] After former State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty to taking over $1 million in bribes, the elections held to replace him will, coincidentally, cost taxpayers nearly $1 million.