bagman

bagman
   someone employed in a taboo activity
   Originally a tramp, with his bag of belongings over his shoulder. Now a passer of bribes, a person who distributes narcotics illegally, etc.:
    'Shri Adam Zogoiby', who had allegedly been the 'bagman' in the affair, carrying suitcases containing huge sums of used, out-of-sequence banknotes to the private residences of several of the nation's most prominent men, and then, as he subtly put it in his evidence, 'accidentally forgetting' them there. (Rushdie, 1995in Indira Gandhi's India, not all those bribed were men)

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