Simply dropping the name does wonders, reportedly, for the success rate of extortion schemes.
One nearby business says that the going rate for extortion is about $100 a week.
Our findings indicate that evidence planting by police is indeed another way in which abuse of power by police may be exerted in Thailand, perhaps for the purpose of maximizing rates of arrests for drug possession or for the simple purposes of extortion.
But none of these countries experience such extreme forms of organized violence as do Mexico and some of its Central American neighbors, all of which face unprecedented rates of homicide, human trafficking, kidnapping and extortion.
A series of Médecins Sans Frontières projects for irregular migrants over the past decade have consistently documented high rates of 14 physical and sexual trauma, extortion and mental illness amidst severe healthcare, food, and housing limitations.
Also last month, the man in charge of the Finance Ministry's Financial Crimes Unit in the northern city of Salonika, Christos Papachatzis, was among 53 people arrested on charges of extortion and leading a protection racket that lent money at usurious rates.
Investors are also fleeing in the face of extortion demands by guerrilla and paramilitary groups, and unemployment is at a record rate of one worker in five after a recession that shrank the economy by more than 5percentt last year.
In other words, if the firm paid up, the rating might be more accurate.Targeted companies despise such practices, which Mr Reynolds of CreditSights describes as "the equivalent of extortion".
The woman was later convicted of extortion.
The rabbis frowned at talk of extortion.
