They are accused of taking bribes from Tullow Oil, a British company in Uganda.
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They have detained an Australian businessman who works for Rio Tinto, accusing him of taking bribes.
He is on trial for allegedly taking bribes from a Finnish arms company.
Thirty-six policemen in the Indian city of Mumbai have been suspended after they were allegedly filmed taking bribes, officials say.
BBC: India policemen suspended for 'taking bribes' in Mumbai
Three of them, including the new foreign minister, Keizo Obuchi, are accused of taking bribes from an Osaka-based oil trader.
He was found guilty of taking bribes in return for approving drugs.
Hazare activists also want the ombudsman to have powers to investigate MPs accused of taking bribes to vote or ask questions in the parliament.
During Mr Kim Young Sam's presidency, two former presidents, Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, were jailed for treason, insurrection and taking bribes.
Mr Wood chose as his chief weapon the power of public exposure--filmed evidence that revealed police officers allegedly taking bribes or dealing in drugs.
The Kenyan government failed to help and prosecutors also had to drop a key witness who recanted some evidence and acknowledged taking bribes, Bensouda said.
His disgraced predecessor, Aryeh Deri, whose appeal against a four-year prison sentence for taking bribes is to be heard early in the new year, stayed away.
When Kakuei Tanaka, the boss of their faction, was weakened after being accused, among other misdeeds, of taking bribes, the two men set about taking over.
From Shas, Mr Barak wrung the reluctant retirement of that party's powerful chairman, Aryeh Deri, who has been convicted of taking bribes and faces a prison term.
On April 15th she and her husband, Asif Zardari, were convicted in a Pakistani court of taking bribes from a Swiss company hired to stop customs fraud.
Item 22: Journalists are prohibited from taking bribes or accepting valuable gifts or favours from sources because it could influence directly or indirectly the content of news reporting.
He's not charged with taking bribes but with knowingly omitting from his Senate disclosure form a quarter million dollars in gifts and services from Allen, including major home renovations.
Just last week Masakuni Murakami, a former labour minister and one of the LDP bigshots that chose Mr Mori as prime minister, was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.
Mr. Cuomo last week proposed measures that would make it easier to charge public officials with taking bribes and would create new penalties for those convicted of defrauding the government.
Mr Garzon has named Francisco Camps, head of Valencia's regional government, as one of a dozen PP members suspected of taking bribes or gifts from businessmen, who also allegedly funnelled money into party funds.
The cases of postal carriers taking bribes are rare instances that don't reflect the vast majority of carriers, said Thomas Boyle, a spokesman for the Postal Inspection Service, a unit of the U.S. Postal Service.
Former Army Captain Bryant Williams was found guilty of an Honest Services fraud ( see Jeff Skilling appeal) for taking bribes in his role as a procurement officer for the 101st Airborne while stationed in Iraq.
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In Argentina, two senior officers in the notorious Buenos Aires provincial force have been charged with taking bribes to turn a blind eye to the kidnapping of Axel Blumberg, a student whose murder in March triggered the protest marches.
So does Mr Rowland's claimed ignorance of Mr Alibozek's dealings, as well as his earlier protestations of surprise after the discovery that Paul Silvester, Mr Rowland's former state treasurer, was taking bribes for dishing out state pension-fund management contracts.
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Given the human suffering, it is politically more palatable for Mrs Arroyo to blame businessmen engaged in illegal logging, rather than government officials for taking bribes to allow them to do it, or her own reluctance to tackle population growth.
The allegations mean a third of football's world governing body executive committee - eight of the 24 members - have been accused of acting improperly, and in some cases taking bribes, in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
But a key witness - known as witness number four - who had been due to testify that Mr Muthaura had been present at a meeting where this plan was formulated, has admitted lying and taking bribes and so his evidence has been dropped.
BBC: Francis Muthaura: ICC drops case against Kenyan accused
Ginsberg reasoned that Congress meant the pre-1987 understanding of the term, and meant to criminalize only the taking of bribes and kickbacks in the performance of a job, not any sort of scheme that somehow deprived somebody of honest work.
Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.
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The Fujimori regime re-opened charges against him for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes.
Halloran, 42, is charged with fraud and bribery conspiracy, accused of negotiating bribes for Smith and taking a share.
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