• A former Ministry of Defence worker has been found guilty of accepting £1.5 million in backhanders from arms companies.
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Governments pledged to make it a criminal offence to slip backhanders to officials of other countries to win contracts.
»He was accused of taking backhanders.
1. 1) удар тыльной стороной руки, наотмашь
2) сл. предательский удар, нож в спину, подножка
2. разг. лишний стаканчик (вина)
3. разг. взятка
inform.
хабар (звичайно за потурання)
розм. хабар