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A small bribe, also called a ‘facilitating’, ‘speed’ or ‘grease’ payment; made to secure or expedite the performance of a routine or necessary action to which the payer has legal or other entitlement.34
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Example in practice
Saudi Arabia’s Control and Investigation Board charged eight health officials in 2008 with taking bribes to facilitate the granting of licenses to open new pharmacies. Investors claimed the licensingdepartment purposely delayed the work and forced them to make facilitation payments in order toadvance the approval procedure.35
Relevant links
—— Basel Institute on Governance: Facilitation Payments.
—— Ethical Corporation: Facilitation Payments.
—— OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials.
—— TI Bangladesh: National Household Survey on Corruption 2007.
—— United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
34 United Nations Development Programme, Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives: Accelerating Human Development in the Asia and the Pacific (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2008).
Transparency International Annual Membership Meeting 2007, Resolution on Facilitation Payments
35 P.K. Ghafour, ‘8 Health Officials Accused of Graft’, Arab News 30 July 2008