BPO - Bribe Procurement Outsourcing
BPO - Business Process Outsourcing is big business today and now there is Bribe Procurement Outsourcing. What smart Customs Officers do at ports and airports is to appoint agents on their behalf to collect bribes for them. Usually they are employees of CHAs or loaders and such low placed employees in airports. Normally in Central Excise, there are no agents, but in the recent case in Mumbai where two Superintendents and an Inspector of Central Excise were caught by the CBI, there was a fourth person – a poor graduate employed by the Central Excise officers to collect bribes on their behalf, for a monthly salary of Rs. 5,000/-.
As long as things go smooth, there is no problem, but once the CBI steps in, these poor collectors of bribes are left to fend for themselves. The officers get good lawyers to defend them, but these poor creatures languish in jails not even knowing what their crime was.