U.S. unveils new charges in U.N. bribery case


  • World
  • Saturday, 19 Mar 2016

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday unveiled charges against a China-born woman who was arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into a scheme to pay bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president.

Julia Vivi Wang, 55, was accused in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan of having paid a bribe of at least $500,000 (£345,214) to buy Antiguan diplomatic positions for her late husband and another Chinese businessman.

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