A TANGLED WEB  Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at a news conference on October 6, where it was announced that a former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes among other charges. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five other people, including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy UN ambassador from the Dominican Republic. AFP PHOTO
A TANGLED WEB
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at a news conference on October 6, where it was announced that a former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes among other charges. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five other people, including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy UN ambassador from the Dominican Republic. AFP PHOTO

NEW YORK: A former president of the UN General Assembly, John Ashe, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with taking $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen in a corruption scandal that stunned the world body.

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