While Mr. Caglayan was a minister, the indictment charged, he "received tens of millions of dollars' worth of bribes in cash and jewelry from the proceeds of the scheme to provide services" to the Iranian government and concealed those services from United States regulators.
The Soviet commentary gave few details of the allegations against Mr. Waldheim, which center on charges that he concealed his service in the German Army in the Balkans.
He concealed his service as a guard with the SS and was allowed to enter the United States on Feb. 14, 1956.
Since Austria elected Kurt Waldheim president in 1986, despite disclosures that he had concealed his service in the German Army near sites of Nazi atrocities in the Balkans, the country has edged away from its perception of itself as victim.
But Mr. Habich admitted that he had concealed his service in several Nazi SS Death's Head Battalions and as a prison guard in the Lublin and Auschwitz concentration camp systems.
The presidential contest was the hardest-fought since 1986, when Austrians elected Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary general, despite revelations that he had concealed his service in Hitler's armed forces close to the sites of Nazi atrocities in the Balkans during World War II.
Mr. Ritter said the inspectors had developed "methodologies," which he refused to describe, that helped them understand how Iraqi security services concealed arms programs.
Mr. Waldheim concealed his wartime service in the Balkans, saying his military career ended in 1942, after he was wounded on the Russian front.
(Mr Grass's moral authority has since been undermined by revelations that he concealed his wartime service in a branch of the SS .Mr Nooteboom is a more congenial and informative guide to that momentous time.
Günter Grass's visibility as a public intellectual and scourge of Germany's rulers led to a degree of schadenfreude when it came to light that he had concealed his brief service in the Waffen-SS as a conscript at the tail end of World War II.
Councillor Gina Adamou, head of Haringey's social services committee, said senior social services managers concealed the fact that 109 vulnerable children had no allocated social worker in May 1999 - just weeks before the council took responsibility for Victoria's welfare.
