Sentence examples for payment of bribes from inspiring English sources

It also allegedly included the payment of bribes to Petrobras executives in return for inflated contracts.

The FCPA outlaws the payment of bribes by American firms to foreign officials, political parties, party officials and candidates.

The payment of bribes is strictly forbidden under government guidelines on how to deal with foreign crises.

Mr. Basu's reasoning is that if the payment of bribes were legalized, the bribe-payer could be persuaded to reveal the recipient.

Tidewater was involved in the payment of bribes to tax inspectors in Azerbaijan and to Nigerian officials to allow the importation of vessels.

But the digging went on, and getting art out of the country — through porous borders, with a payment of bribes — was (and still is) easy.

At the time the SFO was investigating key bank accounts from Switzerland connected with allegations of payments of bribes by BAE.

But tens of millions of dollars from the sale have not been properly accounted for, prompting investigations by prosecutors in Switzerland and France into possible payments of bribes.

It involves reports of payments of bribes to two top executives of EnelPower, a subsidiary of the Italian state-controlled electric conglomerate Enel, which in 2001 awarded Alstom a contract for a boiler at a power plant in Sardinia.

"We should keep the playing field level for consumers," Mr. Spitzer said, "by ensuring that tickets are not withdrawn from the box office improperly through the payments of bribes or outright theft.

But the companies subverted the process through payments of bribes and kickbacks to other possible bidders, fraudulent billings to the government and the laundering of cash through Swiss bank accounts, court records show.