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Latvian Central Bank Boss Detained in Corruption Probe

Bank of Latvia's Ilmars Rimsevics has been arrested by Latvia's anti-corruption agency.

Bank of Latvia's Ilmars Rimsevics has been arrested by Latvia's anti-corruption agency. Sanita Yemburga is executive editor of the Baltic Centre for Investigative Journalism in Riga, and brings us the details. Also in the programme, police in India have sealed off the Mumbai branch of a bank at the centre of a $1.8bn loan fraud. Sushma Ramachandran is a business journalist in Delhi, and explains the background to the case. The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission has found that four in 10 employers feel that pregnancy puts an 'unnecessary cost burden' on the workplace. We find out more from the EHRC's head of employment, Sue Coe. We ask whether a substantial loan from the World Bank to Nigeria to try and tackle the country's power shortages is likely to have the desired effect. Plus, with 10 out of 12 artists to scoop awards at France's biggest music awards signed to independent music labels, Emmanuel de Buretel of Because Music explains how small labels have been able to nurture new talent.

(Picture: Ilmars Rimsevics. Picture credit: Reuters.)

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