Certain prisoners demand bribes from visitors in order to arrange contact with the inmates they are visiting.

Police officers demanding bribes often shake down foreign students.

Afterwards, the officers called from prison demanding hefty bribes to let him go while telling the family he was being tortured.

Rather than turn the traders in, they demanded bribes of $150,000 between them to keep quiet, investigators say.

Soon they just demanded bribes and threatened to shut him down if he did not pay.

Outside one factory, she said, they even demanded bribes.

Past press accounts have said Soviet traffic cops use that ploy to demand bribes.

He told the judge that the local police were still corrupt Baathists, demanding bribes to make sure the case ended in his favor.

This makes it hard for politicians to demand large bribes from rent-seekers.

Several protesters said that police officials routinely demand bribes of $40 to $50, plus one month's salary, from anyone who is hired.