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Vietnamese police arrested Wednesday a former police lieutenant colonel for brokering bribes in a massive corruption scandal centered around a transport ministry agency.
Nguyen Dinh Toan has been charged with receiving $9,500 and VND50 million ($3,100) from the former head of PMU-18, the ministry agency, to influence the investigation into his activities.

The warrant to arrest Toan, former deputy head of a ward police station in Hanoi’s Dong Da District, was issued Sunday when he was in hospital for treatment. He was discharged Tuesday.

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Police spy tells of cell conve

An undercover police officer placed in the Canadian jail cell of Robert Pickton, who is accused of killing 26 women, told a jury today that the pig farmer felt he would be “screwed and tattooed” for 50 murders.

The video was taken in Robert “Willie” Pickton’s cell on February 22, 2002, after he was arrested in connection with at least two murders.

Pickton is standing trial in New Westminster, British Columbia charged with six murders.

Most of the women were sex-trade workers or drug addicts among hundreds of women who disappeared from Vancouver’s gritty Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

The other 20 murder charges will be faced at a later trial.

Prosecutors told jurors during opening arguments that the cell plant coaxed Pickton to tell him about the murders. In those talks, he is alleged to have said he killed 49 women and had intended to make it “an even 50,” but that his sloppiness led to his arrest.

Jurors had yet to hear that part of the conversation.

The defence questioned Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers last week about the ethics of lying to Pickton to gain his trust.

If found guilty of more than 14 of the charges, Pickton would become the worst convicted killer in Canadian history.

The undercover officer, who cannot be identified, told the court as the trial entered its third week today that he was not given any details about the man he was supposed to spy on.

He said Pickton told him he had been arrested on two counts of murder.

“He was concerned about this, said they were looking at another 50 charges against him with relation to this,” the officer testified.

The 12 jurors watched portions of a videotape in which the undercover officer portrayed himself as angry at having another inmate placed in the same cell as Pickton. Finally, the two strike up a conversation about what brought them there.

The officer said his cover story was that he was being held on attempted murder charges.

The undercover officer pretended to be sceptical when Pickton told him why he was arrested. Police would have to prove it, the officer said.

“They don’t have to prove nothing,” Pickton said. “They can set you up.”

During the conversation, Pickton appeared dishevelled and pounded his bed with his fists.

“My name is mud,” he said. “I’m nailed to the cross. Screwed and tattooed.”

Pickton, 56, also told the officer about an attempted murder charge against him in 1997. In the videotape, he blamed the woman for the charge, which was later dropped.

“I got knifed; I have 3,400 dollars on me,” Pickton told the officer. “Bitch wanted the money and she slashed me."
 

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