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Advisor arrested on corruption charges

Dec 10, 2008
By Matt Withers

DETAINED: The Harju County Court ruled that if Parbus were released he could continue engaging in illegal activity.
TALLINN - Ivo Parbus, an adviser to the deputy mayor of Tallinn, has been taken into custody under suspicion of multiple accounts of bribe-taking – bringing Estonia’s ongoing struggle with government corruption back into the spotlight. On Dec. 6 the Harju County Court took Parbus into custody at the request of the Northern Circuit Prosecutor’s Office, which, after monitoring his activities, accused the advisor of accepting bribes on multiple occasions. The court deemed it necessary to arr ...

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