When he sent Mr Squillante the bribe, judicial corruption only applied to the corrupted not the corruptor.
He has been found guilty in two cases of judicial corruption and faces a prison sentence should the verdicts be upheld.
Mr Berlusconi is on trial in Milan accused of judicial corruption, along with a British lawyer who helped to establish a secret offshore network of companies for Mr Berlusconi's business empire.
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Russia is criticized for judicial weaknesses, corruption, etc.
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This week, the country's ousted prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, appealed to the Supreme Court against his imprisonment on corruption charges by an extra-judicial tribunal, the Royal Commission on Corruption Control.
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Mr. Gilani pleaded not guilty and will contest the decision to charge him for refusing to comply with a judicial order to reopen corruption investigations into the Pakistani president, said the prime minister's spokesman, Akram Shaeedi.
The European Parliament said that corruption, weak judicial systems and discrimination against minorities in the 12 countries seeking to join the European Union could make it difficult to pass accession legislation by the end of 2002 deadline.
This despite the considerable doubts that exist about the quality of Romanian democracy, to say nothing of corruption and a creaky judicial system.
Crime, corruption and a weak judicial system are overlapping problems.
BULGARIA'S entry into the European Union was delayed by worries over corruption, organised crime and slow judicial reform.
They would follow cases of political corruption and organised crime that the judicial system has been slow to tackle.
Mr Susilo, promising decisive action against corruption and the chaos in Indonesia's judicial system, has built himself an image of calm, competence and honesty which, say pollsters, has won him support from young and old, rich and poor, and city and country folk.
Mr Kejriwal's party promises an independent and powerful ombudsman to punish graft (essential, though there are concerns that it could become a bloated, Kafkaesque anti-corruption bureaucracy), and sweeping electoral, police and judicial reforms (all of which India desperately needs, but reforms that politicians seem to be averse to), among other things.
During the decades that reformers were lobbying for judicial elections, the secret ballot was thought to be more subject to political corruption than voting openly.
The decision - a preliminary step in the French judicial process - was made by two examining judges, pursuing a series of related corruption cases, who questioned him at his home near Bordeaux in southwest France.
America cannot stop Russian officials abusing the judicial system at home, but it can try to stop them reaping the benefits of their corruption in the West.
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