Actually, I think that the entire Scottish National Party government and a good portion of the Labour government in London were 'paid off' in and for varying values of payment.
Payments can be made in so many covert ways from pure bribes and threats of unemployment to intra-government promises of favorable treatment. Given that Libya is a rich oil producer, anything is possible and the proof is that this piece of inhuman trash still lives, as does his un-indicted co-conspirator, Col Kaddafi!