Tag: bribery

New York Mayor Adams charged with bribery, illegal campaign contribution

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with bribery and illegally soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday, following a long-running investigation that has sent the largest U.S. city’s government into turmoil. Adams faces five criminal charges total, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors said he sought and accepted benefits including luxury travel from […]

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Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal widens with mascot allegations

Tokyo, Japan | AFP | A corruption scandal surrounding the Tokyo Olympics widened on Wednesday as a former Games executive was re-arrested on suspicion of taking bribes from two firms, one of which reportedly sold official mascot toys. Prosecution documents seen by AFP accused former Tokyo 2020 board member Haruyuki Takahashi of accepting 54 million yen ($360,000) in bribes from a major advertising firm and a merchandise company. It was the fourth time the 78-year-old […]

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China’s former justice minister faces life in prison for bribery

BEIJING, China (AFP) – China’s former justice minister faces life in prison after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and “bending the law”. Fu Zhenghua’s death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment after a two-year reprieve, the Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Changchun said in a statement. The high-profile sentencing — part of a sweeping anti-graft campaign — comes just three weeks before a key […]

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Immigration bureau: Two nabbed in Pampanga for offering P1.5 million to immigration agents in exchange for release of French fugitive

(Eagle News) — Two men were arrested in Pampanga on Friday after they attempted to bribe immigration agents with P1.5 million in exchange for the release of a French fugitive, the Bureau of Immigration said on Monday, Feb. 1. The bureau said Aaron Bolus and Joseph Gonzales were nabbed in an entrapment operation conducted by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the City Intelligence Unit  of the Angeles City Police Office. The bureau’s Fugitive […]

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Ex-vice justice minister arrested for bribery in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A former South Korean vice justice minister has been arrested on allegations of bribery, including being provided with prostitutes by a construction contractor. Kim Hak-ui is a former prosecutor who briefly served as the number two at the justice ministry in 2013, during the administration of ousted former president Park Geun-hye. He is accused of accepting bribes worth 130 million won ($110,000) and sexual entertainment on more than 100 occasions […]

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Sandiganbayan junks bail pleas of Argosino, Robles, Calima

(Eagle News)–The Sandiganbayan has junked the bail pleas of two former immigration commissioners charged in connection with the P50-million bribery scandal in the Bureau of Immigration and their co-accused. The Sixth Division dismissed the bail petitions of Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and former policeman Wally Sombero after it ruled the prosecution had proven they should stand trial for plunder. Sombero was allegedly the middleman of businessman Jack Lam, who is accused of paying Argosino […]

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S. Korea MP embroiled in bribery scandal commits suicide

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – A prominent South Korean lawmaker who was being probed over a bribery scandal has committed suicide, police said Monday. Roh Hoe-chan, a three-term lawmaker of the left-leaning Justice Party had been under investigation for allegedly receiving 50 million won ($44,300) from a powerful political blogger linked to many top politicians. The blogger, widely known by his online nickname “Druking”, is currently on trial for using illegal hacking programmes to sway […]

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Airbus to pay 81 mn euros to end German corruption probe

by Michelle FITZPATRICK Agence France-Presse FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Friday said it had agreed to pay a fine of 81.25 million euros ($99 million) to end a German corruption probe into the 2003 sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria. Prosecutors in Munich said in a statement that their investigation did not find evidence of bribery to secure the lucrative contract. But they said Airbus management had failed in […]

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Tugade orders filing of charges vs DoTR official following bribery allegations

Roberto Delfin, DoTR supervising transport officer, placed under 90-day suspension (Eagle News) — Transportation Secretary Art Tugade has ordered the filing of charges against an agency official following allegations he accepted a P150,000 bribe through his aide in exchange for  favorable action on a company’s application for a route measure capacity, among others. Roberto Delfin, the Department of Transportation’s supervising transportation and development officer, was placed under a 90-day preventive suspension pending the results of an […]

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Chinese general hangs himself after facing graft probe

by Yanan Wang Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese general has hanged himself in his Beijing home after becoming the latest top official ensnared in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign, state media said Tuesday. Zhang Yang, the director of the state’s Central Military Commission’s political department, was being investigated over connections to two corruption-tainted former senior military officers when he committed suicide on November 23, according to the official Xinhua news agency. […]

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Former S. Korean leader’s friend Choi gets three years in jail

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The woman at the center of South Korea’s corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term Friday for bribery in the first of a string of criminal cases against her. A long-time friend of South Korea’s disgraced ex-president, Choi was found guilty of bribing professors to have her daughter admitted to Seoul’s prestigious Ewha Woman’s University and receive good grades, despite a poor attendance record. “The court sentences […]

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S. Korea’s Lotte chairman charged in connection with corruption scandal: prosecutors

(AFP) — South Korean prosecutors on Monday charged the chairman of retail giant Lotte in connection with the corruption scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-Hye. Shin Dong-Bin is accused of using more than $6 million to bribe Park and her secret confidante Choi Soon-Sil, the prosecutors said on the same day they charged Park with bribery and abuse of power. Shin, 62, allegedly offered seven billion won ($6.15 million) to a sports foundation […]

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