Figure 5 Percentage of corrupted links versus number of captured nodes.
"The idea of the 'free market' in Korea has been misunderstood from the days of dictatorship, which created a corrupt link between chaebol and politicians", argues Mr Moon.
In 1997-98, a property bubble burst in Bangkok, revealing much that was rotten in Thailand's economic management and the corrupt links between its banks, businesses and politicians.
But the army remains accused of informal, corrupt links with business, demanding protection money or providing security services to companies for chunky fees.The scaling-back of the army's role is just one of many surprising achievements of Indonesian democracy.
So Mark Ellison QC's brisk conclusion that the police were less than frank with the Macpherson team about ex-detective sergeant John Davidson's suspected corrupt links – the Guardian's crime correspondents have been pursuing this for years – was welcome to me.
He referred to a passage in Rusbridger's witness statement to the Leveson inquiry, which stated: "In 2000, we commissioned a report about allegations of corrupt links between an international corporation and officials in Europe and Whitehall.
But the authorities often meet resistance from mine owners, who find these operations profitable, and from local officials who want to create jobs and may have corrupt links to the mine owners.
Three days earlier, the head of the 29 June co-operative, Salvatore Buzzi, was among 37 people arrested in raids that, prosecutors claim, sliced through a web of corrupt links between city hall officials, neo-fascist militants and mobsters.
Luca Odevaine, a senior local authority official, is accused of being a pivotal figure in a web of corrupt links between the Rome council and an organised crime syndicate headed by a former neo-fascist gunman.
The reporter, Carlotta Gall, was honored along with three Polish investigative journalists -- Tomasz Patora, Marcin Stelmasiak and Przemyslaw Witkowski -- whose work on corrupt links in Poland between hospitals and undertakers won them the award for local reporting.
A new regime of "professionalism and integrity" must be introduced following high-profile scandals like the Hillsborough cover-up, the revelation of corrupt links between police and media, and the first sacking of a chief constable for 30 years, according to a new report by the influential home affairs select committee.
