The company president was indicted for paying kickbacks.

Investigation into allegations of solicitation and acceptance of kickbacks

Investigation into allegations of bribes kickbacks for employment at Pristina airport

Others have demonstrated leadership in pursuing companies that pay kickbacks and bribes to foreign officials.

Putin s KGB cronies, usually from St. Petersburg, control these institutions, and tap them for huge kickbacks.

You take the good goods away and the kickbacks... and shakedown cabbage and the pistoleros and you're nothing!

Even the former president of the Philippines government has been accused of receiving kickbacks for supporting the mega deals.

But a Gazprom pipeline typically costs three times as much per kilometer as a similar Western pipeline, because of leakage (kickbacks and waste).

Media allegations of BAE Systems kickbacks to decision makers during the original sales effort have so far led nowhere in the judicial system.

In effect, the report states, he has a monopoly on military spending and imports, apparently a rich source of kickbacks each time he approves a deal.

Ten years later, the message remains the same If you obey your government, your follies (no business in Russia is free of kickbacks and bribes) will be forgiven.

They can engage officials at different levels, and they can give kickbacks, or they can give bribes to them to ensure that they can continue to engage in these market activities.

BANGKOK Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US 15 million in bribes and kickbacks.

This case highlighted problems facing local employees in peacekeeping missions, including being forced to pay kickbacks for securing employment and, in many cases, a lack of rights vis à vis their employment owing to the casual nature of their working engagement.

But even without noisome politics, the sheer amount of money required to stage the Olympic Games the building contracts for stadiums, transport infrastructure, and hotels, together with all the other commercial razzmatazz was bound to produce a culture of bribery and kickbacks.

The definition of what constitutes fraud, embezzlement, theft, conversion, misappropriation of funds or property, bribery, kickbacks and other forms of corrupt practices, varies from national law to national law but all of these acts are subsumed under the concept of failure to observe the required standard of integrity.

Although US congressional investigators found no evidence of kickbacks in the contracts, they did find instances of dishonesty and negligence that at the very least point to the US government s willingness to overlook questionable practices. The fuel for the air base came mostly from Russia, and the main Pentagon contractor s local dealers falsely claimed that it was intended for domestic civilian consumption, thereby benefiting from lower import tariffs.