fakelaki

plural fakelakia · alternative fakellaki

1. An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.

   Specific cases have been rumored to demand up to $4,000 as a fakelaki.

   2018, Panos Minogiannis, European Integration and Health Policy

   2 more examples

   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.

   2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…

   But Greek tax officials are rumored to be notoriously easy to bribe with a fakelaki (small envelope) of cash.

   2013, Michael G. Pento, The Coming Bond Market Collapse