Police Charge Former Sao Paulo Mayor
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Federal police formally charged a former Sao Paulo mayor with money laundering, embezzlement and other crimes they allege he committed while in office, officials said Wednesday.
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A Bangladesh court formally charged former prime minister Sheikh Hasina with extortion on Sunday after weeks of checking prosecution evidence.
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U.S. prosecutors charged a former Pakistani banker with securities fraud on Tuesday, saying he made nearly $8 million in illegal profits after getting insider information on pending merger deals from a former Credit Suisse investment banker.
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Brazil police have formally accused a brother of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of influence peddling after a nationwide crackdown on illegal gambling, the government news agency said Tuesday.
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A former suburban mayor was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for a scheme in which he and other government officials pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to steer city business to contractors.
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A former Uruguayan colonel, wanted in his own country and Argentina for alleged human rights abuses, is arrested in Brazil.
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is charged with improper conduct by the Football Association.
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Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has filed a police complaint against an unidentified man who made threats against him in a magazine interview published in Portugal last month, local media reported on Friday.
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The former Miss Brazil, who disappeared five months ago, has contacted Brazilian police from London to say she is well and does not want to be bothered, authorities said Monday.
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A former Mexican policeman accused  in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young  revolutionary was arrested on Friday, a second detention in a  probe of state atrocities committed three decades ago.
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A former DUP mayor of Coleraine admits six charges of electoral fraud at the last general and local elections.
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The 33-count indictment includes charges of fraud related to the sale of city-owned property before he left office, according to The Associated Press.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The beating to death of four  vagrants and the battering of several others in downtown Sao  Paulo have raised suspicions of death squads as crime soars in  this vast South American city, officials said on Friday.
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A spokeswoman said he was charged with two counts of illegally using his weapon, of obstruction of justice, conduct unbecoming an officer, and improper use of authority.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressional  probe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chief  and an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement in  suspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smuggling  and other crimes.
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German police arrested a former Rwandan minister wanted by the International Tribunal on genocide charges related to the 1994 conflict in the African state, the Federal Crime Office said Thursday.
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Police said Saturday they have arrested one of Rio de Janeiro's most-wanted drug lords.