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.
