A former Nashville detective who was once celebrated for being the first Kurdish person to join the city's police force has been charged with 57 counts of official misconduct and accused of being a gang member.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the charges relate to allegations against 29-year-old Jiyayi Suleyman that have to do with misuse of government records.

Suleyman is suspected of looking up information in the confidential police criminal justice data system on his days off.

The statement from the TBI does not give a motive for accessing the records. It said Suleyman resigned from his job on March 30 while he was being investigated by the department.

According to an internal investigation file obtained by Tennessean.com, Suleyman is accused of using the state's criminal justice database to look up fellow members of Kurdish Pride Gang - A Nashville street gang made up of the children of Kurdish war refugees that has been linked to illegal sales of drugs and firearms.

Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish community in the US numbering about 12,000.

According to the documents, police learned of Suleyman’s suspected double life when they executed a search warrant at the home of a known Kurdish Pride Gang member and seized photos of the young detective ‘participating in gang activities,’ including flashing gang hand signs and ‘wearing apparel that would associate him as a known gang member.’

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Brussels (AFP) - Former Belgian minister Armand De Decker has been indicted for influence-peddling as part of the wide-ranging "Kazakhgate" probe into allegations of corruption linked to a trade agreement between France and Kazakhstan, a public prosecutor said Monday.

It was the first time that Belgium authorities have charged anyone in connection with a case which has already led to charges against several people in France and raids on the offices of European aviation giant Airbus.

De Decker was one of the lawyers for Patokh Chodiev, a Kazakh businessman known to have close ties to the government in Astana.

The former Belgian development cooperation minister is suspected of having sought, in 2011, "to facilitate the granting of a transactional procedure" in favour of Chodiev, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office in Mons, western Belgium.

A magistrate "sent a letter notifying him of his indictment for influence peddling, adding that the alleged events took place in 2011.

At that time De Decker, a lawyer by training, had just joined the team in charge of defending Kazakh oligarchs, including Chodiev, in a corruption case in Belgium.

De Decker, also a former vice president of the Belgian Senate, allegedly used his influence to obtain a meeting at the home of the then justice minister, Stefaan De Clerck, to plead his client's cause.

In June 2011 Chodiev and his two co-defenants avoided trial and paid a hefty fine.

The "Kazakhgate "probe, opened in March 2013 in France, to establish whether kickbacks were paid to intermediaries in a massive 2010 trade deal with Kazakhstan, which included the sale of helicopters and trains.

Those already indicted in France include Jean-Francois Etienne des Rosaies, a former adviser to the French presidency and former senator Aymeri de Montesquiou, a former representative in central Asia for the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

De Decker, who denies influence-peddling, on Monday resigned from Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel's liberal Reform Movement (MR), the party announced.

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VATICAN CITY, May 9 (Reuters) - The trial of a former head of the Vatican bank and an Italian lawyer on charges of money laundering and embezzlement began on Wednesday with the court hearing of missing documents and secret funds in Switzerland.

Angelo Caloia, 79, the highest ranking Holy See financial official to stand trial, was the sole defendant in the tiny court room, which has both a crucifix and a picture of Pope Francis on its walls.

The other, Gabriele Liuzzo, 95, who once worked as an outside legal consultant for the bank, could not attend the trial, which is being held inside the Vatican under its own legal system, because of poor health, his lawyers said.

Caloia and Liuzzo have both repeatedly denied wrongdoing. A third person originally charged, former bank director general Lelio Scaletti, died several years ago.

They are suspected of embezzling money while managing the sale of 29 buildings sold by the Vatican bank to mainly Italian buyers.

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