From AP-

Three South Korean army personnel have been convicted of accepting or seeking bribes while serving as part of a U.S.-led alliance aimed at rebuilding Iraq, an official said Tuesday.

One of the three, a captain identified by his surname Park, was sentenced last month by a South Korean military court to three years in prison for taking $25,000 and a digital camera worth $800 from a local firm involved in construction projects in the northern city of Irbil in return for administrative favors, said an official at South Korea’s Defense Ministry.

Two others — a master sergeant and a major — received suspended jail terms for demanding bribes from other Iraqi firms, said the ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. The two, identified by their surnames Kim and Lee, failed to get any money, he said.

Who says crime always pays?

The captain and the two others were arrested in South Korea in December following a joint U.S.-South Korean investigation, according to the second ministry official. The U.S. requested the probe in August, he said.

The U.S. has spent nearly $51 billion on reconstruction in Iraq but the projects have often been troubled by waste and corruption.

The 30-year-old captain offered administrative favors such as extending the deadline for construction work and lax supervision in exchange for the bribe, the first official said.

South Korea has a domestic history of lax supervision by officials in return for a bribe. The most infamous example being the Sampoong disaster.