In a third case, he could be charged for alleged bribe-taking from a large Spanish bank.

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The second son of South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has been charged with bribe-taking and evading taxes.

BBC: S Korean president's second son charged

On May 5th prosecutors filed yet more charges of bribe-taking and influence-peddling.

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Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to India's finance ministry, suggests that this may be partly because the law treats both bribe-giving and bribe-taking as crimes.

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