What is the ruling on supplying goods to a non-Muslim foreign company if its supply manager demands a percentage of the profit in exchange for completing the transaction, knowing that the company produces permissible consumer goods?

The basic principle is the impermissibility of giving an employee anything without the permission of the company's head. The mere satisfaction or knowledge of the employees is not sufficient, because what is offered to him, if not authorized by the empowered person, is considered an embezzlement (ghulul), due to the Prophet's (PBUH) saying: "Gifts to employees are embezzlement." However, if a person finds no way to conduct a transaction except by paying the employee, then the payer is excused, and the sin falls upon the receiver. Al-Kharshi said: "As for paying money to avert injustice, it is permissible for the payer, but forbidden for the receiver."