11.   He has to bribe officials and recruit bodyguards while in jail, where cells are so crowded he often sleeps standing up.

12.   He said tough regulations could end the practice of companies setting aside offshore bank accounts to bribe foreign officials.

13.   However, Kockums has been accused of trying to bribe Thai officials.

14.   Indeed, a common way to bribe senior officials in China is to lend them a fancy car, already licensed and registered.

15.   It would have been impossible to divert such a towering amount of cash, Chinese executives who did business with Red Pagoda say, without systematically bribing local officials.

16.   Most of their international rivals are not only permitted to bribe foreign officials but can also deduct these pay-offs from their taxes as a business expense.

17.   Promising millions as a commission, the con artists first get a few thousand dollars from the victim purportedly to bribe Nigerian officials.

18.   Senior administration officials familiar with the presidential finding insisted that it did not authorize the CIA to bribe officials or try to influence the vote on amnesty.

19.   That arrest came amid a flurry of Japanese media reports that banks and securities companies bribed ministry officials to gain favorable regulatory treatment and underwriting business.

20.   The move comes after media reports that banks and securities companies bribed ministry officials to receive favorable regulatory treatment and underwriting business.