Jane Tully, one of the prosecutors, said the council had a long history of vote fraud, dating to at least 1992.
Rasim Ismail, an aide, said Mr. Jibouri had been convicted in absentia on charges of fraud dating to his tenure as governor.
In May, 18 football and marketing executives were charged by the US Department of Justice accused of siphoning off $150m in bribes during a "World Cup of fraud" dating back decades.
The company's main shareholder, Mr Khodorkovsky, and another investor, Platon Lebedev, are on trial in Moscow on charges of tax evasion and fraud dating back to company activities in the early 1990s.
B1 Ex-Doctor Charged in Deaths Federal investigators have charged a former doctor, Michael Swango, with the 1993 killings of three patients who were under his care at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Northport, N.Y., and with a pattern of fraud dating back to 1984.
But today federal investigators here said that they had amassed enough evidence to charge Mr. Swango with the 1993 murders of three patients who were under his care at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Northport, N.Y., and with a pattern of fraud dating back to 1984 when, court papers charge, he killed a patient in Columbus, Ohio.
The latter is the best assurance of provenance — and given the centuries of fraud (dating as far back as ancient Rome, even philosopher Pliny the Elder complained of it) — such a bottle commands a higher price.
The case involved tax fraud accusations dating to the 1970's against three businessmen: Burton W. Kanter, Robert W. Lisle and Claude M. Ballard.
But in other ways, the HealthSouth case echoed many earlier accounting fraud cases, dating back to that of Equity Funding in 1973.
Months later, investigators added a lesser, unrelated fraud charge dating from 2001 when he worked as a reporter for a Chinese magazine.
