Because of the impunity they enjoyed, those officers were able to extort money from the population and kidnapped innocent civilians.

Traditional moneylenders are the only alternative, and they extort far more than 30 a year often at the point of a knife, or worse.

An Indonesian university student was detained and charged with defaming a police officer after uploading a video of the office attempting to extort him for money during a routine traffic stop.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, What about us? What must we do? He said to them, Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.

Big banks ability to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat the financial sector and with it the economy s payment system would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.

The rest of the world has no moral responsibility to support the eurozone, and it should resist European leaders efforts to extort that support, which would be tantamount to covert support for its creditor countries.

Political parties are often seen to abuse their powerful positions to extort bribes and provide members and followers with lucrative positions in the public sector, while corruption among parliamentarians compromises their legislative, oversight, financial control and representational roles.