John Ashe alleged to acquire received bribes from Chinese billionaireUS prosecutor Preet Bharara: ‘Is bribery business as normal at the UN?’A former president of the United Nations general assembly turned the world body into a “platform for profit” by accepting over $1m in bribes and a trip to fresh Orleans from a billionaire Chinese real estate mogul and other businesspeople to pave the way for lucrative investments,a prosecutor charged on Tuesday.
John Ashe, a former UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who served in the largely ceremonial post from September 2013 to September 2014, or faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five others,including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy UN ambassador from the Dominican Republic who lives in the Bronx.
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Source: theguardian.com