unofficial relations

unofficial relations
   corrupt practices
   Not your illegitimate offspring but the way business was conducted in Communist Russia:
    Economic ties were entangled in a dense network of 'unofficial relations' (extortions and gifts, bribery, exaggeration of results, embezzlement). (Gorbachev, 1995, in translation)

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