Your corporation has sent you to another country to build a manufacturing facility. A representative of the government with whom you have been working informs you that it will take six months to get the necessary permits to allow work to begin. You explain that you have a deadline to begin manufacturing in nine months and that three months is not sufficient time. He explains that certain people, if compensated, may be willing to help things progress at a faster pace. You must determine if it is illegal to do so.

How would you respond? Explain why you have chosen your answer and whose laws you are considering.