Moreover, Mr Deri had not made that claim when the allegations of wrongdoing were first levelled against him in a series of newspaper articles in 1990, but three years later, when Isser Werderber had died.

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His critics claim he acted improperly in buying a large block of shares in an energy privatisation, though he denies any wrongdoing.

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News Corp. long said the wrongdoing at the News of the World was isolated to those two individuals a claim the company later admitted was false.

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The colonel was himself investigated, after a false claim that he had mistreated civilians and prisoners of war in Iraq, and was later cleared of any wrongdoing.

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