"This has been an ill-targeted, politically motivated and opportunistic attempt to misuse the British legal system.
It said: "It is an attempt to misuse a privileged position and access to high office to gain credibility and to apparently exploit it for commercial gain.
Mr. Marsigny said that the French investigation against the Obiang clan was an attempt to "misuse the existing legal framework" and that the economic picture in Equatorial Guinea had brightened, with the country now enjoying "double-digit growth".
Jack Dolan, a spokesman for the American Council of Life Insurers, said, "There's always been the possibility that people would attempt to misuse the variable product and if there is anything illegal under way we certainly would want it prosecuted".
"Opponents of government action to protect the public's health and the environment," Mr. Jeffords said, "have latched on to the Data Quality Act and are attempting to misuse it to prevent the public from getting valid information about threats to their well being and quality of life".
A spokeswoman for BAKA, Hoda Mitwally, said her organization was being maligned by groups opposed to the event who had issued press releases insinuating her group was somehow linked to terrorism, attempting to misuse school funds, or intentionally breaking the law.
The then minister for the environment Greg Hunt said at the time: The debate this week has been an attempt by some to misuse tragedy and suffering and hardship and nobody should do that.
Taken together, these could swamp any savings achieved by attempts to reduce misuse, abuse or fraud or increase efficiency in the medical care delivery system.
