Probably kickbacks.

Investigation into allegations of solicitation and acceptance of kickbacks

No doubt the kickbacks are divided among all those accounts.

Your share of the Dairyu kickbacks came to 15 million.

Investigation into allegations of bribes kickbacks for employment at Pristina airport

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

75. In late 1997, the Investigations Section of OIOS conducted an inquiry into allegations of bribes or kickbacks being required from contractors by two individuals in the Building Services Division of the International Criminal Tribunal.

Others have demonstrated leadership in pursuing companies that pay kickbacks and bribes to foreign officials. But recovering the billions of dollars stolen by corrupt leaders and officials in the developing world has so far proved to be a lengthy process.

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.

When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight. 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.

Putin s regime may be described as a group of clans, consisting of state dominated corporations, such as Gazprom, Rosneft, Vneshtorgbank, Rosoboronexport, and the Russian Railways, together with the security agencies. Putin s KGB cronies, usually from St. Petersburg, control these institutions, and tap them for huge kickbacks.

Russia s foreign policy is focused on the interests of its state dominated corporations, notably Gazprom, which has concluded agreements with many foreign countries and companies for monopolistic deliveries. But a Gazprom pipeline typically costs three times as much per kilometer as a similar Western pipeline, because of leakage (kickbacks and waste).

An energy ministry that decides who can obtain gas at one fifth of its cost and who cannot is obviously subject to irresistible pressures to distribute its favors to whomever offers the largest bribes or kickbacks. The same applies to coal subsidies, except that the subsidies go to the most inefficient producers.

Smaller scale corruption is bad, but systemic corruption of political processes can have even greater costs. Campaign contributions and lobbying that lead to rapid privatizations of utilities before appropriate regulatory frameworks are in place, and in a manner that produces only a few bidders can impede development, even without direct kickbacks to government officials.

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. An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self contained bubble of wealth and privilege.

So far, 14 men, including nine current or former FIFA executives (but not Blatter), have been charged with a range of fraud and corruption offenses in the United States, where prosecutors accuse them, among other things, of pocketing 150 million in bribes and kickbacks. And Swiss federal prosecutors are looking into shady deals behind the decisions to award the World Cup competitions in 2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar, respectively.

If the public expresses contempt and revulsion for bankers who cheat their clients, oil executives who wreck the climate, FIFA officials who countenance kickbacks, and politicians who cozy up to all of them in exchange for campaign funds and bribes, illegality for the few cannot become the norm. Public scorn might not end corruption immediately, but it can make life far less pleasant for those who are stealing the commons from the rest of us.

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. During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid 1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.