Bribes can take many avatars!
Posted on June 09, 2012
Gift an official’s daughter a flat and a car. Voila! you get the housing site of your choice allotted. That’s how one of our respondents managed to achieve his objective in Noida.
You can read more about this urban development official’s activities at http://www.ipaidabribe.com/bribe-central/one-corrupt-official.
Giving expensive gifts to corrupt individuals is just a subtle way of getting your job done. It definitely does not feel as ugly as handing over cash under the table.
After all, it is seen everywhere around and no one appears uncomfortable about it. Journalists are openly given complimentary gifts at press conferences, doctors are doled expensive gifts by medical representatives to prescribe medicines manufactured by their companies, customsofficers pass off banned drinks if bottles or perfumes are handed over to them.
The professionals who succumb to such offers is just endless…
By Manisha Yadav