Results for: Bribery

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three individuals, including Inspector Balwant Singh of the Haryana Police, in connection with a bribery case. Singh, who was posted as the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Cyber Crime Police Station in Yamunanagar district, was allegedly demanding an illegal gratification of Rs 40 lakh from a complainant in exchange for not framing him in a case under investigation. After negotiations, the accused agreed to accept Rs 5 lakh as a bribe, leading to the CBI’s intervention and subsequent arrest. The accused persons were produced before a special CBI judge in Chandigarh. The Yamunanagar Police Department has initiated the process of suspending Inspector Balwant Singh and has also initiated departmental and disciplinary actions against him.

Normand Morin, a former senior vice-president at engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his involvement in a bribery scheme related to a bridge repair contract in Montreal. The investigation revealed that SNC-Lavalin executives paid bribes of $2.23 million to secure a $128 million contract to repair the Jacques-Cartier Bridge deck in the early 2000s. Morin’s conviction and sentence follow the earlier admission of guilt and sentencing of Michel Fournier, former CEO of the Federal Bridge Corp., who received a 5.5-year prison sentence for accepting bribes in Swiss bank accounts from 1997 to 2004. SNC-Lavalin agreed in 2022 to pay Quebec nearly $30 million over three years to settle bribery charges stemming from the same project.

Timur Ivanov, a former deputy defense minister of Russia, has been arrested for allegedly taking a substantial bribe. He is accused of conspiring with others to receive undisclosed property services for the Ministry of Defense, an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Sergei Borodin, an acquaintance of Ivanov, has also been detained on similar charges.

Timur Ivanov, one of Russia’s 12 deputy defense ministers, was arrested and sent to pre-trial detention on Wednesday for allegedly accepting a large bribe. The charges are punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Ivanov is accused of colluding with unspecified third parties to receive property services as bribes during contracting work for the Ministry of Defense. Another individual, Sergei Borodin, was also arrested and detained on similar charges. The arrests come during Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine, which has entered its third year. Ivanov’s arrest has been reported to President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A high-ranking Russian defense official, Timur Ivanov, has been apprehended on allegations of large-scale bribery. Ivanov, the deputy defense minister responsible for military construction, was taken into custody by the Investigative Committee, a prominent investigative body in Russia. The statute cited for Ivanov’s detention pertains to accepting bribes on a particularly large scale. This case represents one of the most significant corruption incidents since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Maharashtra has arrested the depot manager of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) in Latur for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from a driver to process his leave encashment application. The arrest was made after the ACB laid a trap and caught the suspect identified as Balaji Adsule in the act. A case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and an investigation has been initiated.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) apprehended Roshan Modi for accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 on behalf of a Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) official in Thane, Maharashtra. The arrest was made based on a complaint, and a case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act against Modi and the FDA official.

Steven Lopez, a former Santa Ana police officer, has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for accepting $128,000 in bribes from a crime figure. Lopez pleaded guilty to bribery in 2021, admitting to keeping law enforcement away from the man’s illegal gambling operations in exchange for the bribes. He accepted payments while on duty and in uniform, including one meeting late at night in a parking structure across from the police department headquarters. Lopez, who joined the force in 2016, was placed on administrative leave when charged in 2020.

FirstEnergy Corp. secretly paid $300,000 to a dark money group linked to now-Senate President Matt Huffman at the height of its Statehouse bribery scheme. The payments were made through a series of checks from Partners for Progress, a nonprofit FirstEnergy funded and controlled, to Liberty Ohio, a group FirstEnergy lobbyist Ty Pine referred to as “the Huffman C4.” Huffman has never been implicated in the bribery scandal but has benefited from FirstEnergy’s secret payments.