Sentence examples for terms for corruption from inspiring English sources

Riga city officials were recently sentenced to lengthy prison terms for corruption.

In June, they sentenced four members of the ruling party to long jail terms for corruption.

Nicaragua's former president, Arnoldo Alemán, was given a 20-year jail term for corruption.

Facing a jail term for corruption if he returns, he runs the country by videoconference from Dubai.

He was ousted in a coup in 2006 and is abroad evading a jail term for corruption.

Mr Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile in order to avoid a prison term for corruption in his homeland.

Mr. Thaksin, who is abroad evading a prison term for corruption, is believed to be a key financer and organizer of the red shirt movement.

(Agence France-Presse) BANGLADESH: EX-DICTATOR SURRENDERS -- The deposed president and former dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad turned himself in to begin a five-year jail term for corruption.

Now four years into a 20-year prison term for corruption, the words do not come so easily for the 62-year-old former lawyer, the first and only opposition figure to ever win the presidency here.

Since the government routinely knocks a third off all sentences for good behaviour, Mr Anwar has already completed his prison term for corruption while the wheels of Malaysian justice go grinding along.

Now police officers see their former leader, Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, serving a 12-year prison term for corruption and facing another trial for charges of unlawful killing.