Petrobras officials have pegged the total of all bribes at nearly $3 billion, a figure that makes the scandal at FIFA, world soccer's governing body, seem like the work of amateurs.
CONSPIRACY 2 Brazil sold the World Cup Brazil's players received a total of $23m£15m5m) in bribes, the promise of Brazil hosting the 2006 World Cup, and an easy passage in the 2002 World Cup to throw the game.
The authorities say a total of $55,000 in bribes was given municipal officials before the 10-year contract, to Browning-Ferris Industries, a subsidiary of the big waste management company Allied Waste Industries, was overturned by the city in April.
During the 637-kilometre (396-mile) trip from Medan to Meulaboh, for example, drivers typically passed through 27 checkpoints and forked out a total of $23 in bribes, representing roughly 13% of the cost of their trip more, even, than the total wages of those in the truck.In this section A battle at the checkout Stag or 'flation?
The freight-forwarding and logistics company, Panalpina, which is based in Basel, Switzerland, admittedthat it paid thousands of bribes totaling at least $27 million to foreign officials in seven countries on behalf of many of its oil and gas industry customers, the federal authorities said.
He flatly denies the main charges, that he received a total of almost $11m in bribes from illegal gambling syndicates and from the diversion of tobacco taxes.
From the book it is clear that Maribor had bribed a total of 31 people.
Mr. Liu diverted railway construction and freight projects to a businesswoman, Ding Yuxin, also known as Ding Shumiao, and other associates, in return taking bribes worth a total of 64.6 million renminbi, or about $10.5 million, the court found, according to Xinhua.
The company also says that in 2000 "Shell companies reported four instances in which a total of seven employees were detected soliciting/accepting bribes directly or indirectly.
And if 100,000 people do transit through the town in 2015, then that could feasibly rake in a total of £16.6 million – and that's before bribes worth £1.1 million for the police.
