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India has the same issue. Apparently bribing an official is an easy way to settle a dispute. Without the messiness of actually killing someone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...

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> > his uncle had bribed a government official with ₹300 to have his nephew declared deceased, in order to inherit Lal Bihari's ancestral land holdings of about 1 acre (0.4 ha). Subsequently, Lal Bihari lost his home. ..... In 1994, the Azamargh district magistrate, Hausla Prasad Verma, declared him to be once again alive. Bihari did, however, allow his uncle to continue farming the land he had stolen

Wow, I would not have been nearly as kind there at the end.

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