change hands

He said all the rumors about money changing hands and school officials declining to investigate without evidence was motivation to the coaches as a unit to try to stop the rule violations.

No one will face prosecution over the theft as the page had "changed hands several times" since it was stolen, according to Special Agent Jessica Dittmer of the FBI's art crime team.

Police also suspect that money had changed hands between the father and teacher, and that this was not their first intrusion attempt, KBS reported.

The Russians then crossed into Ukraine but quickly became bogged down in fighting over small border villages, which keep changing hands even today.

For now, gold's importance for Sahel governments and the patchy enforcement of ethical gold standards mean that the commodity is likely to continue changing hands, regardless of its origin.