Front-page headlines about former US President Donald Trump, displayed at a newsstand in New York on March 31, 2023. A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict the former president over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, multiple US media reported on March 30, 2023.
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Front-page headlines about former US President Donald Trump, displayed at a newsstand in New York on March 31, 2023. A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict the former president over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, multiple US media reported on March 30, 2023.
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after hearing the final verdict in a corruption trial at a Paris courthouse on March 1, 2021.
Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on March 1, 2021, and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office.
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after hearing the final verdict in a corruption trial at a Paris courthouse on March 1, 2021.
Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on March 1, 2021, and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office.
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Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's ousted Islamist president, wearing a red uniform, gestures from behind the bars during his trial in the Egyptian capital at the police academy in Cairo on April 23, 2016. Outsed during a coup in 2013, Morsi was tried on a number of charges, such as inciting his supporters to kill opposition protesters. He passed away in 2019 after collapsing in the court where he was standing trial on espionage charges.
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Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's ousted Islamist president, wearing a red uniform, gestures from behind the bars during his trial in the Egyptian capital at the police academy in Cairo on April 23, 2016. Outsed during a coup in 2013, Morsi was tried on a number of charges, such as inciting his supporters to kill opposition protesters. He passed away in 2019 after collapsing in the court where he was standing trial on espionage charges.
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Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan (center) in a Yerevan courtroom, waiting for the judges to announce the pre-trial restrictions in his case. He was charged with “overthrowing constitutional order of Armenia.”
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Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan (center) in a Yerevan courtroom, waiting for the judges to announce the pre-trial restrictions in his case. He was charged with “overthrowing constitutional order of Armenia.”
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People watch a TV screen showing former South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 29, 2019. South Korea's top court sent back Park's corruption case to a lower court for separate trials for her previously convicted charges, a ruling that could increase her already-lengthy prison term.
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People watch a TV screen showing former South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 29, 2019. South Korea's top court sent back Park's corruption case to a lower court for separate trials for her previously convicted charges, a ruling that could increase her already-lengthy prison term.
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Ukraine's ex-President Petro Poroshenko (center), charged with high treason over his alleged involvement in a Donbass coal smuggling scheme, is seen at a hearing at an appeals court in Kiev.
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Ukraine's ex-President Petro Poroshenko (center), charged with high treason over his alleged involvement in a Donbass coal smuggling scheme, is seen at a hearing at an appeals court in Kiev.
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In this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a gurney bed while being taken to the courtroom for another session of his trial in Cairo. Following his ouster in a 2011 uprising, Mubarak was put on trial on charges such as embezzlement and not preventing the killing of protesters by security forces during the uprising.
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In this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a gurney bed while being taken to the courtroom for another session of his trial in Cairo. Following his ouster in a 2011 uprising, Mubarak was put on trial on charges such as embezzlement and not preventing the killing of protesters by security forces during the uprising.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori testifies in a courtroom at a military base in Callao, Peru, on March 15, 2018. Fujimori testified at the trial, charging his former intelligence chief of ordering the kidnapping of Peruvian journalist Gustavo Gorriti in 1992.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori testifies in a courtroom at a military base in Callao, Peru, on March 15, 2018. Fujimori testified at the trial, charging his former intelligence chief of ordering the kidnapping of Peruvian journalist Gustavo Gorriti in 1992.
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France's former President Jacques Chirac, 78, faced corruption charges, which included using public money to pay people working for his party, while he was mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995, is pictured here leaving his home on March 7, 2011, in Paris, on the first day of his trial.
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France's former President Jacques Chirac, 78, faced corruption charges, which included using public money to pay people working for his party, while he was mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995, is pictured here leaving his home on March 7, 2011, in Paris, on the first day of his trial.
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Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada shouts to reporters before he leaves the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Estrada, who once pulled off the country’s biggest election victory, was sentenced to life in prison after a landmark six-year trial on charges that he took bribes and kickbacks while in office.
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Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada shouts to reporters before he leaves the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Estrada, who once pulled off the country’s biggest election victory, was sentenced to life in prison after a landmark six-year trial on charges that he took bribes and kickbacks while in office.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts in a corridor of Milan's tribunal during a hearing of the Mediaset trial on March 1, 2013. Berlusconi was tried in Italian courts in a number of cases, with the charges brought against him including bribery, tax fraud and paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts in a corridor of Milan's tribunal during a hearing of the Mediaset trial on March 1, 2013. Berlusconi was tried in Italian courts in a number of cases, with the charges brought against him including bribery, tax fraud and paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
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Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, pictured in the center, smiles as he is greeted by MPs in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1998. Lazarenko was released on US$3 million bail from a Switzerland jail in 1999 after he was arrested by Swiss police on charges of money laundering.
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Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, pictured in the center, smiles as he is greeted by MPs in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1998. Lazarenko was released on US$3 million bail from a Switzerland jail in 1999 after he was arrested by Swiss police on charges of money laundering.
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In this file photo from July 10, 2012, ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press after hearing the verdict in his trial, in Jerusalem's District Court. Olmert said on July 12, 2012, that he would not return to politics, two days after he was acquitted of major corruption charges.
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In this file photo from July 10, 2012, ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press after hearing the verdict in his trial, in Jerusalem's District Court. Olmert said on July 12, 2012, that he would not return to politics, two days after he was acquitted of major corruption charges.
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Former Guatemalan President Otto Perez leaves the Supreme Court after the judge suspended the hearing in which he was to decide on whether a trial against Perez would take place, in Guatemala City on March 28, 2016. Perez and ex-Vice-President Roxana Baldetti are in jail, facing a possible trial over a scandal in which officials were said to have taken bribes to cut import duties for some companies.
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Former Guatemalan President Otto Perez leaves the Supreme Court after the judge suspended the hearing in which he was to decide on whether a trial against Perez would take place, in Guatemala City on March 28, 2016. Perez and ex-Vice-President Roxana Baldetti are in jail, facing a possible trial over a scandal in which officials were said to have taken bribes to cut import duties for some companies.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein testifies after Head Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman reads out the charges against the former ruler during his trial held in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, May 15, 2006, in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein defiantly refused to even enter a plea as the charges were formally announced at his trial after a three-week adjournment.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein testifies after Head Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman reads out the charges against the former ruler during his trial held in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, May 15, 2006, in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein defiantly refused to even enter a plea as the charges were formally announced at his trial after a three-week adjournment.
