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The Bribery Act 2010 – From small acorns...

18 November 2011

Former Magistrates' Court clerk Munir Patel has today become the first person to be sentenced under Bribery Act 2010 ("the Act"). Mr Patel has been jailed for 6 years, having pleaded guilty last month to requesting or receiving a bribe (an offence under section 2 of the Act (and to the separate common law offence of Misconduct in Public Office). He received 3 years for bribery. Mr Patel was prosecuted in connection with a payment of £500, which he received in return for offering to seek to influence the course of criminal (road traffic) proceedings (although he is stated by prosecutors to have been involved in 53 similar arrangements in total) .

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