Legal attacks on Khaleda Zia, admittedly an unsympathetic figure, are in full flow: an anti-corruption body charged her on August 8th; the same day a court issued a warrant for her exiled elder son over bribe-taking; in June a younger son was sentenced, in absentia, to six years in another graft case; in November she was evicted from her home.
"Consultants Investigated Over Bribes for Buildings".
But the claim over bribes has been contradicted by Marc Gasiorowski, the leading historian of the American side of the coup, who interviewed some of the bribe-givers.
Despite all the talk about customs bottlenecks and administrative delays, like it or not, for businesses to survive they must hand over bribes on a daily basis.
The outspoken Mr Tapie's main extra-political role is as president of Olympique Marseille, a French football team which is at the centre of a long-running scandal over bribes allegedly paid to a rival club.
The growth of an Olympics industry worth billions of dollars, presaged by the Los Angeles games, has provided new headaches for the current president, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain: not only over bribes but, perhaps more important, the growing use of drugs.
(AP) MIDWEST ILLINOIS: OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO PRISON -- A former state inspector general and longtime friend of Gov. George Ryan's pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a scandal over bribes paid for Illinois driver's licenses.
They are constantly negotiating — over bribes paid to border officials, with traders on the Uganda side of the border who know they can demand unfair prices for goods, with state actors and militants who demand payments to let the traders continue their work.
The low point came in 1993 when its chairman, Gabriele Cagliari, died in jail during a scandal over bribes paid to Italian political parties to counter the power of the Soviet-financed Communist party.
Bo, the former national commerce minister who became party boss of the huge municipality of Chongqing, was taken down over bribes and corruption dating to his time as mayor of Dalian in the 1990s.
In a series of high-profile cases, where works of art have been shown to have been confiscated by the Nazis, or sold under pressure, or handed over as bribes to secure escape from Germany, restitution has been made.
