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However, a second Frenchman, Anass Derraz, remains in jail in Azerbaijan accused of accepting a Russian bribe.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

She said she was summoned to a court hearing by police, but decided not to go because she feared officials wanted to use the meeting to extract a bribe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

One Kano resident, who asked to be anonymous, said he had been asked to pay a bribe to get on the list.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The $100,000 bribe prosecutors say he agreed to is the equivalent of $384 for someone making $100,000 a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

I was even angry that we had to bribe a caravan guard to let us leave with the body and return without it.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Kao told the FBI that the lawmakers, lobbyists and Navatek brass understood these donations were bribes and that the payments were essential to the entire scheme.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Southern Glazer’s employees tried to distort the wine and spirits market in California through bribes and other improper conduct and in the end it was the consumer that lost out,” U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

When law enforcement tries to trace bribes or tax evasion, criminals can easily hide among the hundreds of thousands of legal shell companies whose owners were only using them to lower their taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Unlike past UAW leaders, no one alleges Fain has stolen money or taken bribes, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

We stayed the whole day in Salcedo, sitting in the park between masses, buying treats for the kids as bribes for the next hour-long mass.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

So their father taught them in short spurts — 20 minutes maximum, he says — and bribed them with pizza and Capri-Suns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Is it true, they ask, that Jefferson bribed Trumbull to make it look that way, to show that he, Jefferson, outranked Adams?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

At his sentencing, Judge P Kevin Castel called him a "two-faced politician" who had used his influence and national security forces to protect drug traffickers who had bribed and supported him.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Standing amid an array of workstations, a volunteer explained how his team identified sympathetic individuals to buy medicine and food from Damascus, and middlemen who bribed supplies past government checkpoints into Sweida.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025

“I bribed that soldier with all the money I have. Now you will produce what I will feed my child, do you understand?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The brothers were nearly sidelined after a corruption scandal in Brazil almost a decade ago, in which they admitted to bribing politicians and spent several months in jail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

His legal troubles started shortly after his term finished in 2016, when Odebrecht admitted to bribing Latin American government officials and political parties with hundreds of millions of dollars to win business.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Next came Didius Julianus, a senatorial aristocrat who achieved the throne by bribing the guardsmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Even without bribing the bots to provide direct advertising, brands are already trying to find ways to get into the good books of AI search results.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Emma enjoyed her grandchildren immensely, playing with them and bribing them just as she had done with her own children.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman