The following info are what's being discussed in any local neighbourhood in the Philippines:
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- Some postal delivery personnel uses hot steam to open an envelop suspected of containing money -- practice not encouraged by their office -- to extract the money and make it appear unopened when the receiver receives the letter.
- It is possible for a project to have three bidders on paper but in really all of them are coming from the same company or owner.
- Filipino managers sometimes suggest to multi-national company execs to give free hotels or trips to taxation officials to minimize company's taxable gross income.
- Seldom you can find any vacant position in any government agency specially in the purchasing department because no want wants to leave their highly "lucrative" jobs.
- Birthdays of purchasing department distant relatives are still celebrated by suppliers.
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The following info are what's being discussed in any local neighborhood in the Philippines:
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- When viewing newly constructed infra projects, many business people oftentimes wonder how much kickback s was extracted by local officials from the newly finished project.
- The reason why waiting sheds and basketball courts are the most common projects of elected officials is because kickbacks are usually good unlike livelihood project where kickback is not that straightforward or that quick in terms of collection.
- Business people very seldom complain about kickbacks because it's just all business and any complain would largely affect their image or business operation in the future.
- Usually businessmen not involve in infra projects raise up red flags about corruption when they can't get as much as they want.
- The secret of locking mouths involve in kickbacks is to share the amount at most evenly acceptable by all involved parties.
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The following info are what's being discussed in any local neighborhood in the Philippines:
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- The armed group working in the mountains are more negotiable than government officials (i.e. kickbacks is much higher than extortion) because people up there can be negotiated sometimes while people seated in government offices are non-negotiable.
- That armed groups also has improved their image from "no-shoes" to "Robertson boys."
- One of the most lucrative positions in the armed revolutionaries is the work of a collector because its difficult to audit the collected money to verify if ever the bag man get more than beyond his share.
- It's very hard to lure their leaders to come down and come to the fold of law because their revolution is now sugarcoated with lucrative extortion money.
- There are strong likelihood that when there is a government program to be implemented, there is a corresponding money that flow into implementers officials pockets.
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