Former president of South Korea Park Geun-hye has been sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined 18 billion won, or $16.9 million, for bribery, abuse of power and corruption. She was accused of colluding with her old friend Choi Soon-sil to receive 23.1 billion won from major conglomerates, like Samsung and Lotte. Choi has been jailed for 20 years. "The defendant abused her presidential power entrusted by the people, and as a result, brought massive chaos to the order of state affairs and led to the impeachment of the president, which was unprecedented," said Judge Kim Se-yoon. Over in Brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was told to hand himself over to the police to start a 12 year sentence in prison for graft. Lula was president for two terms from 2003 to 2011 and had an approval rating over 80%. After refusing to obey the judge's order Lula handed himself over to the police yesterday. In India, former minister A Raja and MP Kanimozhe were found innocent in the 2G scam case, which was supposed to have caused a loss of Rs 1.76 trillion to the government. "I have absolutely no hesitation in holding that prosecution has miserably failed to prove any of the charges against any of the accused," said Judge OP Saini. Another court found former minister D Maran and his brother K Maran innocent in an illegal telephone exchange case, because there was "no prima facie evidence to prove charges against them". They were charged with causing a loss of Rs 17.8 by installing 700 telephone connections at their homes and at a Boat Club in Chennai. 36% of our MPs and MLAs, a total of 1,765, are facing a total of 3,045 criminal cases, the government told the Supreme Court in March. Naturally, 35% of Chief Ministers have serious criminal charges against them. The Delhi High Court granted anticipatory bail to Sajjan Kumar for his part in riots following Mrs Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, in which an estimated 8,000 Sikhs were killed all over India. Anticipation of what? Sajjan Kumar has been free for 34 years now so is his bail for life? In a curious Public Interest Litigation a lawyer has claimed that the CBI lied when it claimed to have spent Rs 2.5 billion on investigating the Bofors case when it has spent only Rs 47.7 million. The case probably implies that the CBI did not investigate seriously. Seven decades after partition Pakistan seemed entirely different to India to A Jain, although he found the people extremely friendly. Pakistan is planning a permanent ban on Hafiz Saeed and terror groups. But, the Lahore High Court has told the government to "not harass" Hafiz Saeed. Pakistan maybe placed on a money laundering list by a global watchdog. The world hates terrorists. Mere crooks like we have are alright.
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