Bribery scheme: former UN General Assembly head, four others indicted

21 Oct, 2015

A former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others were formally indicted by a US grand jury on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging bribery scheme. John Ashe, a former UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan two weeks after his arrest. The indictment also names Macau-based real estate developer Ng Lap Seng and three others.

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