Former OAS Chief Under House Arrest in Bribe Probe
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - A Costa Rican judge on  Saturday put the former head of the Organization of American  States under house arrest for six months, while he is  investigated for bribery claims, judicial officials said.
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Detectives arrest alleged former IRA chief of staff Thomas "Slab" Murphy on tax-related charges.
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The United States has arrested a California-based movie executive and his wife on suspicion of paying $1.7 million in bribes to a senior Thai official to secure lucrative contracts to run a film festival in Bangkok.
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The United States Embassy in Beijing confirmed on Thursday that the chairman of an American electronics distribution company had been arrested and accused of causing
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A day after four of Sen. John McCain's top political strategists stepped down, the co-chairman of his Florida campaign was arrested Wednesday for allegedly offering an undercover police officer money for a sex act, Titusville police said.
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Police arrested a former intelligence officer on charges he was a double agent, selling other agents' secret identities as well as counterintelligence data to a foreign government, Spain's spy chief said Tuesday.
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A former member of the U.S. Navy was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona, on charges of providing material support to terrorists and espionage, the Department of Justice said.
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A retired Chinese doctor who helped expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her from traveling to Washington to be honored by a charity backed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a friend said Monday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief fundraiser was arrested for a second time Tuesday by police investigating whether political honors such as knighthoods and seats in the House of Lords were traded for cash.
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Representative William Jefferson was charged with soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
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A former top-level State Department official illegally took a secret, unauthorized trip to Taiwan last year and met with Taiwanese intelligence officers, according to a criminal complaint.
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Ex-US football star OJ Simpson is arrested by Las Vegas police probing an alleged hotel room robbery.
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A Costa Rican judge on Saturday put the former head of the Organization of American States under house arrest for six months, while he is investigated for bribery claims, judicial officials said.
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EBay said Saturday that an executive with its India subsidiary Baazee.com was arrested while assisting New Delhi police in an anti-pornography investigation.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sept. 3 -- Former prime minister Khaleda Zia was arrested Monday on fraud charges, as part of what the military-backed caretaker government here calls a war on corruption, police officials said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest on Monday in connection with the kidnapping of two of his political opponents in 1974, a judicial source said.
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A former envoy for Afghanistan's Taliban leadership was arrested Thursday for allegedly filing false income tax returns.