Is a restaurant owner's payment of money to a bus or taxi driver to drop off passengers at his restaurant instead of competing restaurants considered a bribe?
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There is no harm for the restaurant owner to pay the bus driver a fee for bringing customers to him, and this act is permissible, akin to brokerage.
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