The Americans say they have agreed to a more "streamlined" procedure for handing back Chinese nationals whom they decide to repatriate.
The key to the investigation's success has been cooperation agreements with suspects, who have been promised reduced sentences in return for handing back bribes and giving testimony against others involved in the case.
As the Nato summit in Chicago finalises the arrangements for handing back control of Afghanistan, the BBC's Andrew North in the east of the country examines where this leaves the people of Nangarhar and Jalalabad.
The U.S. occupied the islands after World War II and was ultimately responsible for handing back administrative authority to Japan.
Of course, it had to get really out of hand back then for names to be named and published, like stripper Fanne Foxe's 2 a.m. leap into the tidal basin from the car of an intoxicated Congressman Wilbur Mills.
Did they, for instance, hand back to the underwriter some of the profits from selling the shares, by doing a lot of commission-paying business shortly afterwards?
It is a measure of how fast and how far the industry's star has waned that Sonera, Finland's biggest operator, was applauded on August 10th for its decision to hand back, for no financial return, its hard-won licence in Norway.
It ditched its pursuit of nuclear weapons, co-operated in the fight against al-Qaeda and curtailed its support for other terrorists: reason enough, arguably, for Britain to hand back a dying one.But those security aims have been achieved, and there would be little point in making such a controversial concession for a prize that has already been won.
As the teams suited up, men from both sides praised the United States for lending a hand back home.
Is it time for Boris Johnson to hand back the box of soaps he has accepted as a gift from cosmetics company Lush?
