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 appreciated.
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 demands or accepts 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 tender for a "friendly" company, or failing that, you use your authority to dismiss a legal case or complaint against someone, in exchange you receive a bribe, which, as we have pointed out, can be of various kinds. , although, normally it is about millionaire sums of money.
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, failing that, accepts the gift, will incur the crime of passive bribery).
Examples and cases
So two typical examples of bribery will be: the businessman who pays a gift to the public official on duty to help him win a tender of interest to his company, the owner of a company who pays an inspector for an investigation in against it does not yield positive results.
In the 2000s, in Argentina, there was a case that scandalized public opinion and the probable political leadership when the case known as bribery was known in the Senate and that consisted of the reception of bribes by some legislators to approve a questioned labor flexibility law. Such a scandal hit the recent administration of President Fernando De la Rúa hard, 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 a sum of money to the buyer of a company so that he buys the product or service that sells you with the objective that it chooses its proposal over that of the competition.
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 academic field, 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 taken.
In the sports environment it is also extremely common and common to hear about bribery. Players who charge money to, as 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 front-line players who would have stopped winning to favor the millionaire world of gambling. 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 it ensures that the most relevant players on the circuit are involved in the maneuver.
The world organization that is dedicated to ensuring ethics in tennis is investigating whether it is true what the complaint made by the BBC maintains, that many tennis players lost matches on purpose 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 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 his / her beloved will be the bribe to achieve a forgiveness.
