Re- "No president or prime minister would dare to submit a request to ask for a bribe."
Obviously, there are many ways of soliciting a bribe, many ways of salting away or transferring vast sums of bribe money in cash, shares, investments, property, not mere dinners , holidays, other material inducements and some of the nice guys sitting in their "nice, cozy headquarters in Europe" also have their ways of inducement - to ensure that whatever it is they want to buy or to sell gets sold - it could be a fleet of ships, submarines, warplanes, weapons, solar energy contraptions, even in the form of election campaign funds, regime change . Don't we all remember the frontmen of Western mining companies standing in line at Kisangani where Laurent Kabila was signing away contracts and deals ( the DRC's mineral wealth) whilst Mobutu was still in Kinshasa - still in Kinshasa that is, until Bill Richardson turned up and took Mobutu by the ear and said to him, "Now you listen to me and listen to me good: You've been our crook for a long time, but now your time is up. Either you go quietly, or we kick your ass!" Poor Mobutu went quietly, first to Togo. A few weeks later I got calls, if I was interested (poor me) that Mobutu's gold ( tons of it) was being auctioned all over the place ...
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 21:53:21 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Big bribes and little bribes....
What did you do when government officials asked your employees for bribes?
"We had a discussion with the board when we started. We said, "It's not enough for the board sitting in its nice, cozy headquarters in Europe to make statements about anticorruption. What is needed is to offer support to our local people." Because who comes under pressure for bribes? It's not the guys at the top of the company but the people operating in the country. And each operation is actually a local company headed by a CEO. The scheme we came up with was very simple. We said that the CEO and the local management did not have the power to sign any check in excess of $30,000. It was intentionally quite low to make sure that when a minister or a senior official came to put pressure on the CEO, he could say, "You're asking for two million? I need to write to the board to ask for permission." No president or prime minister would dare to submit a request to ask for a bribe." (From Africa Calling - A Conversation With Mo Ibrahim )
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