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Kuala Lumpur, Aug 8 (EFE/EPA).- Malaysia’s former finance minister pleaded not guilty on Friday to a corruption charge related to the 6.3 billion ringgit ($1.5 billion) Penang undersea tunnel project.Lim Guan Eng appeared in a Kuala Lumpur sessions court accused of having bribed a businessman when he was chief minister of Penang in return for helping to appoint the man's company to the project.According to state media outlet Bernama, Lim is accused of seeking a 10-percent cut of the profit to be made by the company, and is suspected of committing the offense near a hotel in Mid Valley City in the southwest of the capital in March 2011. (Camera: FAZRY ISMAIL).SHOT LIST: FORMER MALAYSIAN FINANCE MINISTER LIM GUAN ENG AT THE DUTA COURT COMPLEX IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou has been handed a one year suspended prison sentence. He was found guilty of tampering with a list of potential tax evaders, removing three of his relatives. Katie Gregory has more.
Key Indian opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal addressed a crowd of supporters after being released on bail from a prison in New Delhi. Kejriwal, the capital's chief minister, was detained in March over a long-running corruption probe and is one among several leaders of a political alliance opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi under criminal investigation. IMAGES
Polish Prime Minister Donal Tusk welcomes his Ukrainian counterpart Denis Shmygal in Warsaw for bilateral talks over farm imports. Polish farmers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine since last month to protest at what they say is unfair competition from goods from the war-torn country. The border blockades and grain dispute have strained ties between the neighbours, even as Poland has shown staunch support for Ukraine since the Russian invasion. IMAGES
UK Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt poses outside 11 Downing Street with the red, leather-covered box containing his speech before leaving to present the spring budget to parliament. Britain's Conservative government is expected to use the budget update to unveil tax cuts for millions of workers, in an attempt to woo voters before a general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's party, which has been in power since 2010, is well behind the main opposition Labour party in opinion polls and looks likely to be dumped out of office. IMAGES
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