A routine check on the accounts of the LDA, which is the business and development arm of Mayor Boris Johnson, hasrevealed huge irregularities with the accounting of taxpayer's money.
The European Union and the United States refused to accept the election results, citing huge irregularities-thugs intimidating opposition voters, wildly biased coverage in the state media, destruction of ballots in some areas, and turnout of more than 100% in others.
Two former top executives of WorldCom who played a pivotal role at the company before huge accounting irregularities were disclosed last month refused to testify today, while the company's auditor and Wall Street's most prominent WorldCom analyst said they had no hints of the irregularities before they were disclosed by the company.
Among the irregularities cited were huge discrepancies between ballots cast for the presidency and those for parliamentary candidates at some polling stations.
While Chad is technically a democracy, its presidential elections have been perfunctory affairs in which Mr. Déby won a huge majority in polls marred by serious irregularities.
But then accounting irregularities in the French division of the business, along with a huge drop in advertising sales in the technology industries the company depended on, led to a depressed stock price and near collapse.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Morgan Tsvangirai, the challenger to Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, asserted Thursday that the country's presidential election had been a "huge farce" and called upon international observers to investigate what he described as widespread irregularities.
Citigroup said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating possible accounting irregularities related to its banking business in Argentina from 2001 to 2003, a period when Citigroup was plagued by huge loan losses and Argentina was grappling with political and economic turmoil.
Cosmologists like inflation because such a huge outrush would have smoothed any gross irregularities from the primordial cosmos, leaving it homogeneous and geometrically flat.
That was an irregularity.
