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The Control and Investigation Board (CIB) in Makkah Region has implicated 14 more people in connection with the flood disaster that struck Jeddah in 2009.

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen yesterday faced accusations he might have breached the bribery law in a private visit to Macau, during which he stayed on a luxury yacht offered by a tycoon friend.

Tsang’s office denied that he violated the law, saying he paid a “market price” for the benefits.

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The Constitutional Court has granted a petition in which a city lawyer sought to nullify Parliament’s resolutions demanding that Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, steps aside following bribery allegations in oil sector.

Constitutional Court justices led by the Deputy Chief Justice Alice Mpagi Behigeine said in a ruling this Tuesday that the MPs demand for Mr Mbabazi, and two other ministers named to step aside ahead of a parliamentary inquiry was unconstitutional. The court, however, upheld that the parliamentary ad hoc committee investigations into the bribery allegations, can go ahead.

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South Korea’s parliamentary speaker was charged with bribery on Tuesday, prosecutors said, in a scandal that has forced him to stand down and rocked the ruling party in a key election year.

Prosecutors said they have brought bribery charges against speaker Park Hee-tae, one of his aides and Kim Hyo-jae, a former senior presidential aide, but have not detained the trio.

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In another blow to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party, the Jakarta Corruption Court on Tuesday sentenced party cadre Murman Effendi to two years in jail for bribing 27 councillors in the regency of Seluma, Bengkulu.

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1st July 2012 marks the first anniversary of the Bribery Act 2010 coming into force. It is therefore perhaps surprising that to date, the only person caught by the legislation has been a local court clerk.

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A prosecutor says Swedish national team assistant coach Marcus Allback has been cleared of involvement in a case of bribery surrounding construction projects in western Sweden.

Prosecutor Thomas Forsberg tells The Associated Press that Allback has presented viable explanations for his actions and there is no evidence to prove he committed a crime.

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Prosecutors have dropped their investigation of Austrian National Bank Governor Ewald Nowotny as part of a probe into potential bribery at the central bank’s banknote printing unit.

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A national online archive of individuals and companies guilty of bribery has been established to better combat corruption, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) announced Thursday.

The archive connects all local databases for convicted bribers, making their names available across the country for public inquiry, according to a statement from the SPP. Prior to this, there was no national listing.

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General Major Viktor Gaidukov, who was discharged by the president for false income disclosure, will stand trial on bribery charges. The bribes are assumed to total $333,400, the Main Military Investigative Department reports on Monday.

Gaigukov was a regiment commander in the Irkutsk region between August 2006 and October 2010 when military facilities were under construction at the regiment.

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