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Two former conservative politicians in Germany’s parliament are facing allegations of bribery for their role in a corruption scandal known as the Azerbaijan affair. Prosecutors in Munich announced the bribery charges on Monday against Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner, both former lawmakers from the centre-right CDU/CSU bloc. The politicians both allegedly took bribes aimed at influencing decisions in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in favour of Azerbaijan, according to prosecutors. PACE is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, an organization of 46 countries…

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