11.   Nearly two dozen Newark sanitation workers were arrested Tuesday and charged with demanding bribes before they would pick up trash from some residents and merchants, officials said.

12.   Officials and businessmen openly say the ministries controlling exports of critical resources routinely demand hefty bribes for granting export licenses.

13.   Numerous speakers at the loya jirga on Friday called for swift punishment for government officials who demand bribes.

14.   Prosecutors are also looking into allegations of the existence of a secret organization of purchasers that demanded bribes from suppliers to secure contracts.

15.   Residents complain that even when they have proper documents and passes Russian troops demand bribes at checkpoints outside town.

16.   Since then the probe has widened to include reports of the existence of a secret organization of car company purchasers demanding bribes from their supplier.

17.   Volkswagen AG and General Motors Corp. declined comment on a report of an alleged secret organization of purchasers that has demanded bribes from their suppliers in recent years.

18.   Plainclothes police flashing special orders allowing them to question anyone deemed suspicious roamed downtown, stopping pedestrians to demand bribes.

19.   Plainclothes police roamed downtown, stopping people to demand bribes.

20.   Police, meanwhile, regularly demand bribes to augment their meager salaries.