| I have been offered bribes in the past, which had hilarious consequences for the briber. |
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| Likewise, it is immaterial which is the nationality of the briber or of the person who is bribed. |
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| The briber would rather pay the money than have the information revealed. |
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| Intent must relate to a future result: the public official acting or refraining from acting as the briber intends. |
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| The briber may not even have known whether the official had discretion or not, this element being, for the purpose of this provision, irrelevant. |
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| However it should not be forgotten that there is no corruption without a briber. |
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| This is probably due to the fact that corruption usually is sealed through the pact of silence between briber and bribee, who have a mutual interest in concealing their activities as far as possible. |
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| In addition, the definition of bribery has been further refined to ensure that both sides are equally held to account: the bribe taker as much as the briber. |
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| If votes are cast in secret there is no way for candidates and party organisers to be certain that the vote was cast according to the agreement between the voter and the briber. |
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| And when the briber is a foreign agent as he usually is it can be desperately hard to pin the responsibility on him. Some say the law merely encourages American firms to bribe more cleverly. |
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| The World Bank in 1997 said that where corruption is predictable that is, where the briber knows what he has to pay and can be sure of getting what he pays for it harms investment less than where it is capricious. |
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