cpburt, because the OP writes: "Hi, I am in receipt of an e-mail from one of the MScs I work for in New Delhi-India."
So the OP refers to an email, then quotes from it. So I know that the OP may be quoting from an email. I believe that the OP is, but I don't know it, because I can't read the email. So if this is true, then what follows is a threat made by an MSC--a threat made to all of its shoppers meant to warn them of the dangers of doing what two shoppers allegedly did.
The two shoppers who committed "wrong" are not identified by the MSC in the alledged email. So the purpos of the MSC is to scare the shoppers who perform shops for them, by saying "This could happen to you, too, if you do wrong."
So this proves only that we have an MSC in India trying to scare its shoppers.
Don't try that in the USA. No MSC is sending emails like this because USA shoppers wouldn't have any of it.
As for bribery in India being rampant, that is common knowledge. There is a Wikipedia page about this subject even: [
en.wikipedia.org]