LONDON (AP) — A court clerk has become the first person convicted under Britain's new bribery laws after he admitted to accepting cash to clear up a traffic summons, British prosecutors said Friday.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Munir Yakub Patel admitted to taking a 500 pound ($800) bribe to "get rid" of a speeding charge by not entering the details of a traffic summons into a court database when he was a clerk at east London's Redbridge Magistrates' Court.
He pleaded guilty Friday at Southwark Crown Court — making him the first person convicted under the Bribery Act 2010, which took effect July 1, 2011 and updated century-old bribery laws.
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