A former Hong Kong police officer is facing 30 counts of bribery and fraud after he was previously charged by the city’s anti-corruption agency with accepting an unauthorised loan from someone linked to an investigation. Magistrate Frances Leung Nga-yan on Friday approved an application by prosecutors to charge 50-year-old Mak Kwok-hung with the extra counts…
The head of Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency has vowed to crack down on bribery cases involving the city’s imported workers amid a rising trend, but stressed there is no systemic risk of corruption among new arrivals. Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Danny Woo Ying-ming said on Thursday that investigators had held talks in…
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s relatives continue to hold millions of dollars in business ventures and financial investments, suggests a recent US intelligence report. The findings also suggest that despite Xi’s decade-long anti-corruption drive, which has seen the prosecution of millions of officials across all levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) there still remains “endemic”…
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 He has been replaced by Li Lecheng, 59, the governor of the struggling northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, according to the ministry’s website.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…