Concept in Definition ABC

Gift given to someone in exchange for receiving a benefit

A bribe is the gift with which someone is bribed and also refers to the action and the result of bribing. It is the corruption that is carried out on an individual, either through the delivery of a sum of money, a gift, or the performance of a favor and then obtain from that person something that is needed or appreciate.

To bribery it is also called bribery and in the most popular and current language bribery. It is a crime that is classified as such in the laws of the whole world. Bribery is even more scandalous when it is a public official or a recognized businessman who demand or accept a gift to specify or omit any action at the request of their duties and positions. For example, if you receive money for approving a bidding for a "friend" company, or failing that it uses its authority to dismiss a legal case or complaint against someone, in exchange for it receives a bribe, which, as we have pointed out, can be of various kinds, although, normally it involves sums of money millionaires.

Types of bribery

Bribery or bribery can take various forms, including: simple bribery (an official agrees to receive a sum of money to authorize or comply with an act), qualified bribery (when the mission of delivering a gift to an official has the objective of obstructing some action) and passive bribery (The person who offers, or in the absence of it, accepts the gift, will incur the crime of passive bribery).

Examples and cases

Then two typical examples of bribery will be: the businessman who pays a gift to the public official on duty to to help you win a tender of interest to his business, a business owner who pays an inspector to a investigation against him do not give positive results.

In the 2000s, in Argentina, there was a case that scandalized public opinion and the leadership politics proba when the case baptized as bribery was known in the Senate and that consisted of the reception of bribes by some legislators to approve a questioned law of labor flexibility. Such a scandal hit the recent administration of President Fernando De la Rúa, who would later pay high political costs for it.

In the state, in the private sphere, in sports ...

Although bribery or bribery is not only entrenched in the context of the state, bribes are also very common in the private sphere, the seller who pays you a sum of money to the purchasing manager of a company so that he buys the product or service that he sells with the objective that he chooses his proposal over that of the competence.

And if we continue to address other areas or contexts, we will also find cases of bribery, that is, it is not only a matter of politics and business. In the field academic There have been cases of bribery, when the student pays him a sum of money or offers something precious to his teacher so that he can approve the subject or the degree he has completed.

In the environment sports is also extremely common and common to hear about bribery. Players who charge money to, as it is popularly said, "go backwards" in a match, that is, let the opponent win.
In tennis, without going any further, these days there is a lot of talk about first-line players who would have stopped winning to favor the millionaire world of betting. Obviously, that they will have done it for something in return.

The English channel BBC recently published an investigation on the subject that shook the world of tennis and in which he ensures that the most relevant players of the circuit.
The global organization that is dedicated to ensuring ethics in tennis is investigating whether the claim is true made by the BBC, that many tennis players purposely lost matches in order to favor the betting business, so popular and interesting for these times, and that has undoubtedly penetrated deep into many sports, in football it has also done it, each World Cup is a proof of it.

In addition to often constituting a crime, as we mentioned above, a bribe turns out to be unethical which as such should be avoided, since doing so makes us better people morally.

Meanwhile, corruption can be carried out with money as we mostly comment, although the object can be anything that incites or moves someone. In the case of a person in love, surely, the kisses of her / her lover will be the bribe to achieve forgiveness.