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Economic development and prosperity have reduced the extortionary type of corruption in the province; but the temptation of wealth appears irresistible among cadres at all levels, and very senior cadres have been involved in smuggling and commercial fraud. And he helpfully reminds us that the original "restraint of trade" consisted in exorbitant, and sometimes extortionary, road and canal tolls that inhibited the development of "free trade. The Company believes the defendants' allegations are a feeble attempt to embarrass the Company and its officers and follows a number of extortionary threats made by Mr. |
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