FIRST CONVICTION MADE UNDER UK BRIBERY ACT

BY KEITH NUTHALL A MAGISTRATES court clerk in London has been imprisoned for six years for accepting bribes to not register motoring convictions. The case against Munir Yakub Patel was the first brought under the 2010 Bribery Act, under which he received three years' jail. He also pleaded guilty to the offence of Misconduct in a Public Office, getting six years, running concurrently with the bribe sentence. Patel worked at Redbridge Magistrates' Court, Ilford, east London and charged GBP500 for each failure to register a conviction. The Southwark Crown Court ...


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