Sentence examples for protection fees from inspiring English sources

One result is that corrupt officials protect brothels for protection fees.

In contrast to the new groups, members of Chinatown's established gangs, such as the Dong An - "Eastern Peace" - or Flying Dragons, exercise control in clearly demarcated zones where they protect gambling operations and pry protection fees from local businesses, law-enforcement officials say.

They harboured businessmen who would pay them protection fees, and the criminals in turn felt the extra cash would help protect them from the other criminal bosses.

They harbored businessmen who would pay them protection fees, and the criminals in turn felt the extra cash would help protect them from the other criminal bosses.

No tolls are charged, no protection fees paid.

A mother of three told me that, after months of paying protection fees, she closed her shop.

But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers," Mr Malema alleged.

But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers".

In subsequent years, the protection fee was calculated according to a formula based on the area being protected and topped up with additional income from the sale of thinned wood (35 to 60percentt of total proceeds).

State officials said the owners had balked when the Zetas raised the protection fee.

In 2005, the Mafia asked him to pay the pizzo, a protection fee of tens of thousands of euros, for the bakery's original location in Palermo.