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- Chinese Carrefour staff jailed for taking bribes: state media
- BEIJING AFP — A Beijing court has sentenced eight Chinese employees of French retail giant Carrefour to jail terms of between one and five years for taking kickbacks from suppliers, state media reported Wednesday. The court was told the staff took payments from suppliers between May 2005 and July...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Willbros to pay hefty US fine in Nigeria, Ecuador bribery probe
- WASHINGTON AFP — Willbros, an oil and gas industry services firm, has agreed to pay over 32 million dollars in fines and forfeitures to settle accusations of bribing Nigerian and Ecuadoran government officials, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. The Justice Department said Willbros, which is based in Panama...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- Israeli PM Olmert denies taking bribes
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday denied allegations of bribery but said he would resign if charged in a case that threatens to shake up the nation's political landscape. Details of the allegations against the 62-year-old premier were unveiled after the justice ministry lifted a...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Israeli PM fights for political life in bribery scandal
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was facing mounting calls on Friday to resign over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire US financier. Olmert has vehemently denied any wrongdoing but said he would quit if he is charged in a case that...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Rep. William Jefferson says he's going broke defending against federal bribery 'conspiracy'
- The FBI said it found $90,000 cash in his freezer. He faces federal bribery and corruption charges that could possibly land him behind bars for the rest of his life. But in an exclusive interview with JET Magazine--his first extensive interview since being charged nearly three years ago--Louisiana congressman William...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Ex-cop charged in wiretap case says he didn't take bribes
- LOS ANGELES -- A former Los Angeles police sergeant charged in a federal wiretapping case testified Friday that he ran names through criminal databases for an indicted private eye but didn't accept bribes for the work. Defendant Mark Arneson said he knew that accessing people's private information...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
- Two Virgin Islands Commissioners Convicted in $1.4 Million Bribery and Kickback Scheme
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Feb. 27, 2008, a federal jury in St. Thomas found the former Commissioner of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources DPNR guilty of demanding and accepting bribes...
- Research articles 2008-02-28
- Contractor is given probation for bribe
- A federal judge yesterday issued a sentence of probation for a Philadelphia construction contractor who cooperated with the FBI and admitted to giving a $20,000 bribe to a city real estate assessor for help in reducing tax payments and resolving other issues on four of his properties. U.S. District Judge...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- US couple arrested in Bangok Film Festival graft probe: justice
- LOS ANGELES AFP — A Los Angeles-based businessman and his wife have been arrested for paying 1.7 million dollars in bribes to a Thailand government official for the right to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Gerald Green, 75, and his wife Patricia, 52,...
- Research articles 2007-12-18
- School official admits bribes
- The president of the Pleasantville Board of Education pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted extortion, admitting that he accepted a series of bribes in an FBI contract-rigging sting that began in Atlantic County and spread to several North Jersey communities. James Pressley, 23, entered his plea during a brief hearing before...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Civilian Contractor Indicted for Allegedly Soliciting Bribes While Working at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A civilian contractor from Georgia has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for allegedly soliciting bribes while working at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait,...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- Nigerians, Russians and Libyans took Siemens bribes: WSJ
- WASHINGTON AFP — German telecommunications giant Siemens AG paid about 17.5 million dollars (12 million euros) in bribes to government and industry officials in Nigeria, Russia and Libya in a bid to win contracts. Using documents released last month by a court in Munich, The Wall Street Journal Europe...
- Research articles 2007-11-17
- A 7th corruption arrest in the 'Steal Pier' inquiry
- A prominent Atlantic City real estate agent was charged with bribery earlier this week in an ongoing FBI probe of political corruption in the South Jersey resort.Frank Barbera, a former treasurer for the Atlantic County Republican Party, had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Camden on Tuesday and...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- Trial starts in corruption case involving US lawmaker
- LOS ANGELES AFP — A defense contractor appeared for the first day of his trial Wednesday on charges that he paid 700,000 dollars in bribes to a former prominent US lawmaker who has since been sentenced for corruption. Federal prosecutors accuse Brent Wilkes, the chief of firm ADCS Inc.,...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- Suppliers urged to report bribery online
- [Corruption] It is now easier for suppliers to blow the whistle on public sector buyers who demand bribes. Anti-corruption membership group TRACE has set up the Business Registry for International Bribery and Extortion BRIBEline website to collect information on public sector organisations that ask for kickbacks. It hopes...
- Research articles 2007-08-23
- Anti-corruption Internet site launched
- WASHINGTON AFP — A grouping of companies launched Wednesday a website dedicated to collecting information about officials and governments around the world who seek bribes. The US-based Trace International, a non-profit grouping of multinational firms, said their new website Bribeline.org will allow people or organizations to anonymously report bribe...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- China tightens rules against graft
- BEIJING AFP — China's top judicial bodies have tightened rules against official corruption, clarifying the illegality of bribery linked to the stock market, gift-giving and gambling, state press said Monday. The move will crack down on major new types of bribe-taking, including receiving stock shares as gifts, being invited...
- Research articles 2007-07-09
- Vietnam football referees, officials on trial for match-fixing
- HANOI AFP — Nine Vietnamese football referees and officials went on trial in the soccer-obsessed nation Tuesday accused of taking and giving bribes to fix matches, a court official said. The defendants in the Hanoi people's court trial, which is scheduled to last two days, include seven referees, the...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- China's censors bribed to approve TV shows: report
- BEIJING AFP — Some Chinese censors are taking bribes to give the green light to television programmes, sparking a clampdown by the nation's watchdog, state press reported Thursday. "Censors collecting unwarranted fees from TV play producers will be strictly dealt with," Li Jingsheng, director of TV drama under the...
- Research articles 2007-06-20
- BAE bought plane for Saudi prince under arms deal: report
- LONDON AFP — Britain's defence giant BAE bought Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan an Airbus plane under a multi-billion pound arms deal and is still paying the costs of flying it, the Guardian newspaper said Friday. The latest allegation met with renewed denials of wrongdoing from BAE, which said...
- Research articles 2007-06-15
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