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Peruvian justice orders 36 months of pre-trial detention against ex-president Castillo

STORY: Peruvian justice orders 36 months of pre-trial detention against ex-president Castillo DATELINE: March 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: Lima CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. file of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo STORYLINE: Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) has been sentenced to 36 months of pre-trial detention by the country's judiciary. This comes as part of an investigation by the public prosecutor's office into alleged acts of corruption during his time in office. The judge placed Castillo in pre-trial detention for allegedly leading a criminal organization for crimes committed in the state-owned oil company Petroperu, and several government ministries. The former president is being investigated for the alleged crimes of criminal organization, collusion, and aggravated influence peddling. The judge cited a danger of escape and obstruction of justice as reasons for the pre-trial detention. The former president's family, including his wife, has been living in exile

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Ex-Tokyo Olympics operations exec arrested over bid rigging

Journalists gather in front of a building housing the head office of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo after prosecutors arrested a former operations executive at the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee the same day on suspicion of playing a leading role in bid rigging for contracts related to games test events. The executive and Dentsu officials are suspected of collusion.

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AFC chief denies World Cup bid allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2010. The AFC chief dismissed as baseless recent allegations of collusion in the World Cup bids of Qatar and Spain-Portugal.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, head of the Hokkaido Bureau of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. Shinaga is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award a contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007, prosecutors said.

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Lee Myung Bak cleared of involvement in financial scam

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean opposition politician Lee Myung Bak, the front-runner in the Dec. 19 presidential election, attends an event at the Grand National Party's headquarters in Seoul on Dec. 5. He was cleared of allegations of involvement in a share-price manipulation in collusion with his former business partner.

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Lee Myung Bak cleared of involvement in financial scam

SEOUL, South Korea - A prosecutor tells a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 5 that South Korean opposition politician Lee Myung Bak, the front-runner in the Dec. 19 presidential election, was cleared of allegations of involvement in a share-price manipulation in collusion with a former business partner.

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Plan to summon Nukaga nixed

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga answers questions from reporters at the ministry on Nov. 30 after the ruling and opposition camps agreed that a House of Councillors committee will hold off on an already endorsed plan to summon him on Dec. 3 over a collusion scandal.

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Upper house panel to summon Moriya, Nukaga under oath

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition lawmakers of the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs raise their hands on Nov. 27 to show their approval for summoning Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga and former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya next Monday as sworn witnesses over allegations of collusion on defense contracts while ruling coalition lawmakers are absent from the session.

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Moriya denies doing favors for defense firm despite golfing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya speaks at a House of Representatives panel in the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 29 as a sworn witness about a series of allegations including collusion with a former executive of defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp.

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Ex-Japan Highway exec arrested over bid-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Sozo Kanda, a former Japan Highway Public Corp. official arrives at the Tokyo Detention House on July 12. Kanda was arrested earlier in the day along with four officials of major bridge builders in Japan for alleged collusion to rig bids on bridge construction projects ordered by the government-affiliated body.

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American arms dealers benefit from Ukraine crisis: Pakistani expert

STORY: American arms dealers benefit from Ukraine crisis: Pakistani expert DATELINE: April 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the street views of Ukraine 2. SOUNDBITE (English): SHABANA FAYYAZ, Head, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad STORYLINE: A Pakistani expert says it's the American arms dealers who benefit from the Ukraine crisis. SOUNDBITE (English): SHABANA FAYYAZ, Head, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad "In the Ukraine crisis, what is happening is that it is the contractors in collusion with the governments, whether they're from the Western normally sides, are supplying the weapons. Recently, the U.S. committed the Stingers and hand Stingers and the merc planes to the Ukrainian. So have other European capitals committed that and the military funding, the training and so on and so forth. But the question is, to what extent the Ukrainian people will be takin

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Moriya denies doing favors for defense firm despite golfing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya speaks at a House of Representatives panel in the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 29 as a sworn witness about a series of allegations including collusion with a former executive of defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp. (Kyodo)

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Upper house panel to summon Moriya, Nukaga under oath

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition lawmakers of the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs raise their hands on Nov. 27 to show their approval for summoning Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga and former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya next Monday as sworn witnesses over allegations of collusion on defense contracts while ruling coalition lawmakers are absent from the session. (Kyodo)

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Plan to summon Nukaga nixed

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga answers questions from reporters at the ministry on Nov. 30 after the ruling and opposition camps agreed that a House of Councillors committee will hold off on an already endorsed plan to summon him on Dec. 3 over a collusion scandal. (Kyodo)

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U.S. man detained in N. Korea begs for mercy over crimes against state

A man claiming to be a naturalized American who has been held in North Korea since last October, who identifies himself as Kim Dong Chul, gets ready for a press conference in Pyongyang on March 25, 2016. He confessed to what he described as acts aimed at overthrowing Pyongyang's regime in collusion with South Koreans and begged for mercy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. man detained in N. Korea begs for mercy over crimes against state

A man claiming to be a naturalized American who has been held in North Korea since last October, who identifies himself as Kim Dong Chul, holds a press conference in Pyongyang on March 25, 2016. He confessed to what he described as acts aimed at overthrowing Pyongyang's regime in collusion with South Koreans and begged for mercy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trump calls Russia probe "greatest witch hunt" of U.S. politician

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in this file photo, decried on May 18, 2017, the probe into his team's possible collusion with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor as the "greatest witch hunt" of a politician in the country's history. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean prosecutors suspect Park of further collusion with friend

File photo shows South Korean President Park Geun Hye. South Korean prosecutors said on Nov. 27, 2016, that the president is suspected of colluding with her indicted confidante Choi Soon Sil in forcing conglomerates to give advertising contracts to an ad agency set up by Choi and an associate. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Japan Highway exec arrested over bid-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Sozo Kanda, a former Japan Highway Public Corp. official arrives at the Tokyo Detention House on July 12. Kanda was arrested earlier in the day along with four officials of major bridge builders in Japan for alleged collusion to rig bids on bridge construction projects ordered by the government-affiliated body. (Kyodo)

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007. (Kyodo)

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, head of the Hokkaido Bureau of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. Shinaga is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award a contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007, prosecutors said. (Kyodo)

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Lee Myung Bak cleared of involvement in financial scam

SEOUL, South Korea - A prosecutor tells a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 5 that South Korean opposition politician Lee Myung Bak, the front-runner in the Dec. 19 presidential election, was cleared of allegations of involvement in a share-price manipulation in collusion with a former business partner. (Kyodo)

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Lee Myung Bak cleared of involvement in financial scam

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean opposition politician Lee Myung Bak, the front-runner in the Dec. 19 presidential election, attends an event at the Grand National Party's headquarters in Seoul on Dec. 5. He was cleared of allegations of involvement in a share-price manipulation in collusion with his former business partner. (Kyodo)

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AFC chief denies World Cup bid allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2010. The AFC chief dismissed as baseless recent allegations of collusion in the World Cup bids of Qatar and Spain-Portugal. (Kyodo)

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Hong Kong media mogul arrested on collusion charges

Photo taken in Hong Kong on July 13, 2020, shows Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. Lai, one of the most famous democracy activists and critics of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, and six others were arrested on Aug. 10 for alleged collusion with foreign forces under a sweeping national security law recently imposed by China.

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Hong Kong media mogul arrested on collusion charges

Photo taken in Hong Kong on July 13, 2020, shows Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. Lai, one of the most famous democracy activists and critics of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, and six others were arrested on Aug. 10 for alleged collusion with foreign forces under a sweeping national security law recently imposed by China.