The Wire - A former UN General Assembly president accused by US prosecutors of taking $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen is in plea talks to resolve his case, according to a court filing on May 18.
The talks
involving John Ashe, a former UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who served
as General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014, were disclosed in a letter
filed in federal court in Manhattan by his lawyer.
Ashe, 61, is
one of seven individuals charged since October 2015 in connection with the
bribery scheme, which has also ensnared a billionaire real estate developer in Macau,
Ng Lap Seng.
Prosecutors
said Ng paid Ashe more than $500,000 through intermediaries to seek UN support
of a United Nations-sponsored conference center in Macau that his company would
develop.
Nation – [The documents] known
as “the Panama Papers,” reveal how elite multinational companies, the super
rich, and government figures have engaged in tax-dodging practices engineered
by a single Panama City–based law firm, Mossack Fonseca.
The Clinton Foundation inhales donations from people using
tax havens (including Panama). Although Hillary denounced Mossack Fonseca’s
dealings on cue after the Panama Papers story broke, a number of individuals
and multinationals that have contributed to the foundation used MF to establish
offshore accounts, according to McClatchy. These include Canadian mining billionaire Frank
Giustra who features in the foundation’s $25 million top-tier donor bracket,
and two firms tied to Ng Lap Seng, the Chinese billionaire implicated in a
major donor scandal involving the Clintons and the Democratic National
Committee.
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