He also disclosed that ministry staff could have known about the practice for five years and face possible disciplinary action.
He added that ministry officials warned him to stay out of the matter because it was "too political".
In 1868 and 1869 that ministry was able to enact several liberal reforms, undoing parts of the concordat of 1855 between Austria and the papacy.
He still misses the quiet routines of a life rooted in prayer and parish, but says that ministry within the secular world is where he belongs.
Yet in spite of joining the Camillians precisely because of their dedication to the sick, Kinvi had never appreciated the sacrifices that ministry might demand of him.
Fourth, after investigating the case, the comptroller's office found no evidence that ministry officials knowingly diverted loans.Fifth, none of the recipients of diverted agricultural subsidies contributed to my campaign.
A supervisor with the Tatweer program, who was not authorized to speak publicly and declined to be quoted by name, said that ministry officials, many of them near retirement, needed help.
Mr. Takenaka, already the economy minister, was appointed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to run both that ministry and the main financial regulatory agency in a cabinet reshuffling two weeks ago.
Despite efforts by the Yemeni Interior Ministry to curb torture in its prisons, the department said, there were also reports that ministry agents "routinely" used of torture to extract confessions from criminal defendants.
Because of their insistence that ministry should include involvement in the political struggle of the poor against wealthy elites, liberation theologians were often criticized both formally, from within the Roman Catholic Church, and informally as naive purveyors of Marxism and advocates of leftist social activism.
