New Delhi: The vigilance unit of Delhi Police booked an inspector for demanding bribe from an NRI for registering a case based on his complaint. The cop has been sent to the District Lines.The complainant, a woman residing in England, holds special legal power of attorney on behalf of an NRI, who is from Jalandhar…
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged four people including a football club owner for allegedly offering bribes to fix match results in the 2021-22 season. They included an alleged illegal bookmaker, Yao Xiaocong, 40, and Fu Moon Athletic Association owner and coach Lo Hong-ming, 30. Lo also played as a defender in matches. The other…
China has removed Jin Zhuanglong as party chief of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, two months after he disappeared from public view. He has been replaced by Li Lecheng, 59, the governor of the struggling northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, according to the ministry’s website. He was also removed from a list of…
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NEW YORK — Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday afternoon in a Lower Manhattan court. Menendez, 71, was convicted last July on 16 counts of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors had been calling for Menendez to serve 15 years, citing “the seriousness of the defendants’ crimes, the…
China’s Communist Party has warned cadres against accepting digital “red packets” as cash gifts for the Lunar New Year, raising bribery concerns amid a renewed pledge to fight corruption. Accepting or giving virtual presents that might affect the fair performance of official duties could be seen as violating “red lines” in party discipline, the Central…
A top Russian general has been arrested on bribery charges, according to the Tass news agency. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s purge of his top military officials continued with the arrest of Major General Mirza Mirzaev. The detention of Mirzaev, the deputy chief of logistics of the Russian National Guard, for allegedly trying to extort a…
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s government said on Friday that employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, are being investigated for suspected taking of bribes and embezzlement, after Taiwan reported their detention. Taiwan’s government said this week that four Foxconn employees had been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances in Zhengzhou, home to…