They bribed the guards with cigarettes.
他们用香烟贿赂看守。
The merchant offers a bribe to him.
这商人向他行贿。
The police officer refused to take the bribe.
那位警察拒绝收下贿赂。
Suspicions arose last month when a letter, accusing BGI of bribing officials and defrauding State-owned assets, was made public.
Disciplinary authorities will promote institutional reforms in key areas, strengthen the joint investigation of bribe-giving and bribe-taking, and improve the joint punishment mechanism for key bribe givers.
Meanwhile, those bribing officials in supervisory, administrative or judicial departments, or in the fields of environment, finance, production safety, food and drug, disaster relief, social insurance, education or healthcare, must also face severe punishment, according to the law that will take effect on March 1.
People who give bribes to staff members of supervisory, administrative or judicial departments, or bribe in fields such as environment, finance, safety production, drug and food, social insurance, rescue relief, education or healthcare, also need to face severe punishment, the law added.
A draft amendment to the Criminal Law — mainly concerning penalties for bribe and graft in private firms — will be improved following its first review by national lawmakers, an official from China's top legislature said.
It also states that bribing parties involved in major national projects, or engaged in the fields of the environment, finance, security production, food, medications, education, health, social insurance and disaster relief, will also face harsher penalties.
China plans to increase the punishment for those who bribe officials by amending the Criminal Law to advance the country's fight against corruption, a senior legislator said.
The report to the 20th CPC National Congress also required discipline authorities nationwide to punish both bribe takers and givers and combat new and disguised forms of corruption.
Procuratorial organs have punished both those who give or accept bribes, and suggested stricter punishment to bribe givers, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Procuratorial organs have taken action against both bribe givers and takers, especially for those who gave bribes multiple times, in large amounts or to multiple people, he said.
The report to the 20th CPC National Congress, which was held in October, also asked the authorities to punish both bribe takers and givers and combat new and disguised forms of corruption.
"Bribe takers and givers engage in trading power and money, which is an important cause for the spread of corruption.
It is imperative to resolutely crack down on corruption that undermines the people's interests, combat new and disguised forms of corruption, and punish both bribe takers and givers, the communique said.