Hyundai chief given suspended sentence
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Hyundai Motor Group  chief Chung Mong-koo was on Thursday handed a 3-year suspended sentence by a South Korean appeals court, freeing him to continue running the word's sixth largest auto maker.
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Agrees to eight month jail term A Samsung executive at the centre of a memory chip price fixing scandal has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve eight months in jail. Thomas Quinn agreed the penalty as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.â¦
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Pete Doherty was handed a suspended four-month jail sentence Friday for a series of drug and driving offenses.
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ATHENS, Greece  - A Greek court Monday gave a  former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a  $3,600 fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off  the road, a court source said.
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A Liverpool businessman has been given a suspended prison sentence for  faking degree certificates.
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A former Hyundai CEO appeared headed for a landslide win in South Korea's presidential election, according to exit polls. Lee Myung-Bak broke from the pack by virtue of his rags-to-riches story and business background. But the vote became uncertain after foes released a clip of him saying he founded a company at the center of stock manipulation charges.
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Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top auto  maker, reported a surprise 21 percent slump in fourth-quarter  profit on Friday, hit by a stronger won and higher steel  prices.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President Kim Un-yong of South Korea was sentenced to two years in jail by Seoul Appellate Court on Friday, reported South Korean national news agency Yonhap.
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Costa Rica&#39;s former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez was jailed on Friday for six months pendinginvestigation of corruption charges against him.
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A judge ordered a businessman jailed Tuesday in a case involving a corroded light pole, an injured street vendor and what the businessman calls a vindictive company.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A Quebec City businessman was given a suspended sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to two charges of paying for sex with minors.
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Brocade Communications Systems Inc's  former CEO was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements.
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DaimlerChrysler AG sold its 10.5-percent stake in South Korea&#39;s Hyundai Motor Co. for $912 million after CEO Juergen Schrempp&#39;s plan to win more of the Asian market failed.
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A man is given a suspended jail term for ignoring an order banning him from his home town.
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A former chief financial officer of the Cendant Corporation was spared jail time as he became the final defendant sentenced in an accounting scandal.
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A former high-ranking Enron Corp. executive was sentenced to 2 1/2  years in prison yesterday by a federal judge who acknowledged the official's cooperation with prosecutors but refused to give him the substantial break he requested.
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An appeals court yesterday suspended a three-year prison sentence for Hyundai Motor Co. chairman Chung Mong-koo, saying the tycoon is too important to South Korea's economy to go to jail for embezzlement.