The fact that it was led by Akbar Tandjung, once convicted of corruption though cleared on appeal, was surely a handicap.
Other southerners, notably Spaniards and Portuguese, have both improved, though sleaze and corruption, especially at regional and city levels, is still common.
By now, many Venezuelans are ready to forgive, if not to yearn for, the good old days under Mr Perez, who though suspected of corruption throughout his term, at least managed to make sure the graft was spread a little more evenly.
Democracy has survived at least two attempted coups and has had lapses into corruption, though few to match Mr Perez's.
The recent spy spat with Georgia has boosted Mr Ivanov's profile, though perpetual scandals about corruption and brutality in the armed forces continue to tarnish it.
His third term was overshadowed by municipal corruption scandals, though Mr. Koch wasn't directly implicated.
Top state officials promised to keep enforcing anti-corruption laws, though one legislator ensnared this week, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, was secretly recorded reciting recent punishments ranging from two to seven years in prison, noting some were far softer than others.
He hopes to pass an anti-corruption bill though this has so far been blocked by bickering in parliament.
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Daley, Chicago's mayor (who, though respected, failed to stem corruption beneath him), and Todd Stroger, whom Mr Obama endorsed to succeed Mr Stroger's scandal-dogged father as president of Cook County's board.
Though there are continued worries about corruption within the Afghan police force and army, and about infiltration into the security forces by insurgent sympathisers, this time the Afghan forces acquitted themselves well once the fighting started.
His successor, former labor leader Frederick Chiluba, left office voluntarily though under a cloud, accused of corruption and abusing the political process.
Whereas the NOC is not required to the people who belong to the Ngalong community even though they are involved in some massive corruption, rape cases, misuse of the Govt fund, some social crimes etc.
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Go back a few years, though, and find this roster of federal corruption cases from 2009 to 2011: Sens.
Nor is it easy to persuade cynics that corruption can be reduced, even though Hong Kong and Singapore are living examples.
These, he claims, contain direct evidence of corruption at the highest level, though Mr Kuchma, a volatile former factory director, seems to have a strong stomach when it comes to scandal.
He may have had a point: Mrs de Melgar, though she was promising better schools, less corruption and a fairer life for women, was miles behind Mr Flores in the opinion polls.
In Poland, a traditionalist and ruralist party, Samoobrona (Selfdefence), came third, nabbing seven seats. (Two other right-wing parties, the crime-bashing Law and Justice and the Catholic-nationalist League of Polish Families, also did well.) Two parties in Austria and the Netherlands, though not strictly Eurosceptic, campaigned successfully against corruption and mismanagement in Brussels.
Though they may also be less likely to claim corruption as a sign of probity.
Last year Mr Romiti was found guilty of false accounting in a corruption case in the Italian courts, though he is appealing against the verdict.
Similarly, even though he personally does not favor jailing Suharto for corruption, Wahid was careful to note that new Attorney General Marzuki Darusman would reopen the investigation into allegations that the ex-dictator enriched himself illegally.
The National Accountability Bureau, the institution Musharraf created to squash corruption, has not yet been able to prove widespread corruption against the former premier, even though the bureau instituted three cases against Sharif and his family out of a total of 53.
Indian Commonwealth Games officials have said all the venues will be ready by 25 August even though the event has been over-shadowed by a corruption scandal.
Though forced out of office in 1996 after he denounced corruption in Mr Menem's government, his popularity now mirrors that of the economic programme he introduced.
Even though the economy has performed well under Garcia, poverty and corruption have kept discontent bubbling at dangerous levels.
Few investigators will venture an estimate about the prevalence of corruption in the various law-enforcement agencies, though most agree that it is increasing.
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Finally, businesses may demonstrate their commitment to resisting extortion though initiatives like the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption initiative or the U.N.
Finally, Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme, some of which appears to be plain fraud, though system-wide irregularities also point to subtler forms of corruption and capture.
EITI, there is some evidence that it has reduced corruption in Nigeria, according to Mr MacGillivray, though it may be just shifting the graft to other ministries.
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