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BRIBING * Vietnam - Copping fines
Bribe-taking on major highways remains a persistent bugbear staining authority figures and festering public discontentHo Chi Minh City,Vietnam -Thanh Nien Daily -19 Feb 2008: -- Around the period of the Tet (Lunar New Year), newspaper correspondents staked out at major highways that have drawn notoriety for the cowboy methods of traffic police and discovered that transgressions have reached a zenith... Officials took bribes and permitted passage to vehicles crammed with an inordinate number of passengers or overloaded trucks goods... Such clandestine activities, in fact, have become routine for both drivers and traffic police, especially during the holiday time when inflated kickbacks reap a “bountiful harvest” for these scheming perpetrators... (Photo: A routine bribe-taking conducted between a truck driver and a policeman in Binh Phuoc Province)
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