Mr Faisal had been helping lead the investigation into alleged bribes paid by power firms when Mr Ashraf was minister for water and power in 2010.
The police have confirmed only that they arrested a 43-year-old woman in connection with the parallel investigations into phone hacking and bribes paid to law enforcement officials.
The focus of the inquiry couldn't immediately be determined, but FCPA inquiries involve bribes paid to foreign-government officials or employees of state-owned companies to gain a business advantage.
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Some have asked the Department of Justice to consider a probe under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a broad law that targets bribes paid anywhere in the world.
In November 2009, Afghan prosecutors issued a warrant for Mr. Azimi's arrest after he was allegedly heard on a wiretap discussing bribes paid to the country's then-Islamic affairs minister.
French judges investigating misuse of funds in 1989-93 by Elf , then a state-run oil company, were denied access to papers detailing bribes paid to foreign firms to win contracts.
In his lifetime too, Rajiv Gandhi had faced a controversy over alleged bribes paid by Swedish arms firm AB Bofors to clinch the sale of more than 400 howitzers to India.
The Justice Department is preparing subpoenas for its investigation into whether bribes paid by News of the World journalists to British police officials constituted a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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One Western diplomat told me that bribes paid to Taliban commanders by private security contractors, along with the other ways that the Taliban extort Western money, from aid projects to military bases, are themselves enough to finance a robust insurgency.
Something entirely normal in Russia, something that is almost unheard of in the general experience in the UK. Indeed, it used to be true that for a UK company then bribes paid to foreigners were a tax allowable expense but something that you went to jail for if you tried it on in England.
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On inquiry, it emerged the money came from bribes routinely paid by bus and lorry drivers.
The deal has also been surrounded by allegations that bribes were paid to members of the Saudi royal family.
Now the scandal is reaching into Scotland Yard amid charges of serious police corruption and bribes being paid for information not in the public domain.
He said the issue of whether bribes were paid to win a contract was a matter for India and Westland's owner, the Italian company Finmeccanica.
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Two separate cases came to light at roughly the same time this summer, both involving bribes allegedly paid by foreign companies doing business with state-owned firms.
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But on Tuesday, former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald, who reviewed for NI's owner News Corporation the e-mails in a file relating to bribes allegedly paid to police, said they contained "evidence of serious criminal offences".
Fabrizio Viola, chief executive of Monte dei Paschi who was brought into the bank to turn it round a year ago, said on Monday he thought the acquisition of Antonveneta was "expensive" but he had seen no evidence of bribes being paid to secure the deal, a suggestion put forward by prosecutors.
Mr Tyagi has denied charges that he or any of his relatives were paid bribes.
Prosecutors allege he paid bribes to ensure the sale of 12 helicopters to the Indian government.
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Presumably, the farmers whose poppies were spared were well connected or had paid bribes.
Former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi has denied allegations that he or any of his relatives were paid bribes.
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Former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi has denied allegations that he or any of his relatives were paid bribes to secure the deal.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation since then has registered cases against ten coal producers on allegations they paid bribes to win bids for blocks.
It said that if a company were discovered to have paid bribes, it could be excluded from participating in any World Bank projects elsewhere.
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Eight international construction companies have been charged with bribery in Lesotho after they allegedly paid bribes to win contracts for a multi-million dollar dam project.
Beginning late last Fall, Italian investigators began exploring charges that members of energy giant Eni had paid bribes to Sonatrach officials to ensure contracts for a local subsidiary, Saipem.
The price of these bribes is being paid by the cautious, such as elderly people who do not want to trust their modest nest-eggs to the vicissitudes of the stockmarket.
The Journal notes that HP had previously disclosed that the Justice Department and the SEC already had been investigating allegations that the company paid bribes to officials in Russian and other countries.
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