New York federal prosecutors Tuesday accused the brother and nephew of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with forging bank records, authoring phony emails and cloaking an attempted bribe as legitimate payments in efforts to close on a real estate deal in Vietnam. According to a 38-page criminal complaint, the alleged conspiracy began in 2013 when Ban's brother, Ban Ki Sang, a senior executive at Keangnam Enterprises in South Korea, began seeking new sources of financing to eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars of debt his firm had accrued in building and owning Landmark 72, a complex of two 48-story residential...
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