But a French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, initially confessed to having voted for the Russians under pressure from Gailhaguet, who was suspected of attempting to secure support for French ice dancers later in the Olympics.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal based on German court documents, the investigation centers on bribes that employees of a German unit of Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest technology company, were suspected of making to secure a Russian contract for computer equipment.
The case, known here as "the Karachi Affair," centers on kickbacks that investigators suspect were paid to secure the sale of three submarines to Pakistan in 1994 and then used to help finance the presidential campaign of former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in 1995.
Hence, the presidential candidates must look beyond the usual suspects in order to secure the required 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
Edmondo Bruti Liberati, a Milan prosecutor, reportedly said that the suspects were taped by police making suspected attempts to offer bribes to secure contracts for next year's fair.
The US shares Britain's view, but some G8 members, such as France and Italy, are suspected of paying ransom money to secure the release of their nationals.
Passed by Congress three decades ago in the wake of Watergate, it is only in the last five years that the F.C.P.A. has become a powerful tool for prosecuting domestic and overseas companies suspected of bribing foreign officials to secure business.
Oh, I suspect if the U.S. manages to secure some new U.N. resolution giving more cover to the U.S. reconstruction of Iraq, we will scrounge up a few Indian or Turkish soldiers and maybe a few dollars, but nothing that will make a real dent in the $87 billion price tag the Bush team has presented to the American people.
They suspected that Mr. Hodges might be trying to secure an advantage for Mr. Barnes, who would be expected to perform well in South Carolina.
In fact, it was department policy that, in the absence of a truly exigent circumstance (for instance, having to secure first suspect to prevent the escape of another armed, violent suspect), subjects were never to be handcuffed or otherwise secured to immobile objects.
