BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German President Christian Wulff was charged on Friday with accepting a bribe in exchange for a political favour, a year after a broader corruption probe forced him to resign from the largely ceremonial post.
Wulff was hand-picked by Chancellor Angela Merkel for the job of head of state in 2010. But he stood down after 20 months when prosecutors said they suspected he had accepted undue privileges and asked parliament to lift his immunity.
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