What is the ruling on giving money in exchange for clearing goods from customs?

Question:
The questioner says: I am a merchant, and when I arrive in my country by plane, I face harassment from the customs officials. The question is: Is it permissible to give a sum of money in exchange for clearing the goods, knowing that if I do not give it, the goods may be confiscated?

Answer:
This is a bribe, and a bribe is not permissible. A bribe is not permissible. If you give it to them, you will corrupt them toward the others who do not give them, so do not do this. Pay the customs duties and clear your goods by paying them their dues, and this injustice will be upon them, and its sin will be on them. As for the bribe, it is not permissible because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who gives a bribe and the one who takes it. So if you clear your goods, you will corrupt them toward the others; either you give them, and they harm them, or they harm the others. Yes.