fakelaki
English
editEtymology
editFrom Greek φακελάκι (fakeláki, “little envelope”).
Noun
editfakelaki (plural fakelakia)
- An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.
- 2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…:
- Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopes’ were a fact of life, and where, crucially, the rich regarded paying tax as something that only the poor and stupid would ever choose to do.
- 2013, Michael G. Pento, The Coming Bond Market Collapse:
- But Greek tax officials are rumored to be notoriously easy to bribe with a fakelaki (small envelope) of cash.
- 2018, Panos Minogiannis, European Integration and Health Policy:
- Specific cases have been rumored to demand up to $4,000 as a fakelaki.