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Discover Ludwig"payment of kickbacks" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of giving or receiving illegal or dishonest payments, often in exchange for favors or preferential treatment. Example: The CEO was arrested for his involvement in the payment of kickbacks to government officials in order to secure lucrative contracts for his company.
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"It was Company X's objective, in part," court papers said, "to use the Medicare program as its checkbook for the indirect payment of kickbacks and bribes to physicians like Joseph Spinella".
One of the central strands of Fifa's new move towards disclosure and openness was the publication of legal documents relating to the alleged payment of kickbacks to some of its most senior officials by its former marketing partner ISL.
In 2003, for example, HCA Inc. agreed to pay the federal government $631 million in civil penalties and damages to resolved civil liability for false claims, including the payment of kickbacks to physicians.
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Other local journalists said they were beaten or intimidated after writing about rampant corruption, dubious land deals and payments of kickbacks and hush money in the city.
This is partly due to the fear of war, but also the new restrictions imposed on the pricing mechanism (to avoid the payment of illegal kickbacks) which mean that buyers do not know until a month later the price at which they are buying Iraqi crude.
The scheme involves money laundering and the payment of massive kickbacks to PT and coalition party officials using resources from the state oil company, Petrobras.
US prosecutors said the football officials conspired with sports marketing executives to "shut out competitors and keep highly lucrative contracts for themselves through the systematic payment of bribes and kickbacks".
Concacaf instituted governance reforms in July 2015 principally aimed at its internal constitution, and auditing and protection against the payment of bribes and kickbacks when TV, sponsorship and commercial rights are sold, which were rife under three previous presidents.
US prosecutors said the officials conspired with sports marketing executives to "shut out competitors and keep highly lucrative contracts for themselves through the systematic payment of bribes and kickbacks".
HSBC accounts had been involved, the filings stated, in a $500,000 £328,0000) transfer from a sports marketing company connected with Fifa to a luxury yacht manufacturer, as well as a number of wire transfers connected to alleged payment of bribes or kickbacks.
The pension fund scheme would have involved the payment of $10 million in kickbacks to offshore bank accounts held by unidentified co-conspirators, including a former trustee of the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), prosecutors said.
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