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Vaccines for votes: Lebanon's oligarchs turn to COVID bribery

Bachir El Khoury, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 10 11:23 AM

Lebanon's cash-strapped leaders are bribing their base with free COVID-19 jabs ahead of next year's elections, in what observers say is the latest variant on an old corruption trick.  Read more »

Firm seeking franchise in 2016 tried to bribe senators with P20M: Lacson, Sotto

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 06:53 PM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday said a company tried to give him and Senate President Vicente Sotto III an "8-digit" bribe in exchange for the approval of its congressional franchise in 2016. Read more »

Ericsson to pay 80 million euros to Nokia in bribes case

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of May 12 08:04 PM

Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said Wednesday it had agreed to pay Finnish competitor Nokia 80 million euros ($97 millions) to settle a dispute linked to bribes and accounting fraud. Read more »

Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed jail sentence

Tangi Salaün, Reuters
Posted at Mar 01 09:55 PM

PARIS - Judges found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in jail, with two years suspended. Read more »

'Walang imbento': Duterte says he will resign if accused of corruption

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 07 11:45 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he will resign if someone will formally accuse him of accepting bribes -- and if the allegation is true. Read more »

US prosecutors investigating potential White House 'bribery-for-pardon' scheme

Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Posted at Dec 02 07:05 PM

That was the first of what is expected to be a string of pardons in US President Donald Trump's final weeks in the White House.   Read more »

Duterte muntik 'pakainin ng pera' ang BI officials na dawit sa 'pastillas' scam

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 08:14 PM

Muntik na umanong pakainin ng pera sa "mala-pastillas" na papel ang mga sangkot sa 'pastillas scam.' Read more »

'Pastillas' bribery mastermind not among staff Duterte scolded: Hontiveros

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 11:47 AM

The alleged mastermind of the "pastillas" bribery scam was not among Immigration bureau personnel that President Rodrigo Duterte summoned to Malacañang Monday night, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said Tuesday. Read more »

Former South Korean president ordered back to prison for bribery

Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 29 04:27 PM

SEOUL, South Korea — The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 17-year prison term for former President Lee Myung-bak and ordered him sent back to prison. Read more »

Some Chinese interpreters in NAIA earning 'big time' from 'pastillas' scheme: whistleblower

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 20 08:34 PM

Some Chinese translators working at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have been earning "big time" from the "pastillas" scheme as they allegedly connive with Immigration personnel to slip illegal Chinese workers in the Philippines, a whistleblower said Tuesday. Read more »

Enforcement against foreign bribery down sharply since 2018

Reuters
Posted at Oct 13 10:54 PM

WASHINGTON - Active enforcement against foreign bribery has dropped sharply since 2018, and three places - China, Hong Kong and India - did not open a single foreign bribery investigation from 2016 to 2019, a new report by watchdog Transparency International found.   Read more »

Ex-CHR commissioner acquitted of graft, direct bribery

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 06:05 PM

The Sandiganbayan 2nd Division acquitted former Commission on Human Rights commissioner Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing of graft and direct bribery, charges which led to her dismissal from office in 2014.   Read more »

'Sinungaling, bobo': Tulfo, Aguirre trade insults in Senate probe over 'pastillas' scheme

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 22 04:09 PM

Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre and columnist Mon Tulfo on Tuesday hurled insults at each other during a Senate investigation into the alleged corruption scheme in the Bureau of Immigration. Read more »

Drilon bats for Bureau of Immigration overhaul after arrest of 'pastillas' scheme investigator

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 22 02:53 PM

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday urged a Senate panel to recommend a "reorganization" of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) after an investigator tasked to look into a bribery scheme in the agency was arrested for conniving with officials tagged in the case. Read more »

How a massive bomb came together in Beirut’s port

Ben Hubbard, Maria Abi-Habib, Mona El-Naggar, Allison McCann, James Glanz, Anjali Singhvi and Jeremy White, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 10 08:55 AM

Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, a compound used in explosives, was spilling from torn bags. In the same hangar were jugs of oil, kerosene and hydrochloric acid; 5 miles of fuse on wooden spools; and 15 tons of fireworks — in short, every ingredient needed to construct a bomb that could devastate a city.   Read more »

Hontiveros welcomes filing of raps vs Immigration officials in 'pastillas' scheme

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 02 09:37 AM

Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday welcomed the filing of charges against 19 immigration officials over the so-called "pastillas" bribery scheme that allowed the unimpeded entry of Chinese tourists into the country. Read more »

Jinggoy says he gave away free 'bangus', not bribes

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 10:54 AM

Former senator Jinggoy Estrada rejected Monday allegations that he was giving away money to San Juan residents over the weekend, prompting authorities to bring him to a police station for allegedly violating quarantine measures.  Read more »

SC seeks Ombudsman, NBI comment on release plea of ex-cop in bribe scandal amid COVID-19 threat

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 19 09:20 AM

MANILA – The Supreme Court on Tuesday required the Office of the Ombudsman and the National Bureau of Investigation to comment on the motion of former police official Wally Sombero to be provisionally released from detention amid the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Read more »

Football: Qatar denies U.S allegations of World Cup bribes

Simon Evans, Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 10:02 AM

The organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have strongly denied allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice that bribes were paid to secure votes for the hosting rights to the tournament. Read more »

Coast Guard personnel allegedly allowed Batangas resident to enter Oriental Mindoro despite travel restrictions

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 28 07:40 PM

-Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito "Bonz" Dolor earlier alleged in an interview that the Batangas resident disembarked at Calapan Port, and paid Coast Guard personnel to be allowed to enter the province. Read more »