Now the Central Bureau of Investigation hints that it will at last prosecute Ms Mayawati for corruption over evidence of huge growth in her personal assets.
Montreal's city hall has been raided by anti-corruption police seeking evidence of fraud and breach of trust.
The research is instructive for economists sceptical that clear-cut evidence of corruption can ever be found.
The statement said the bank would take a hard line if any evidence of corruption arose.
The company's chief executive, Lars Nyberg has offered to resign if there is any evidence of corruption.
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And to me, it's just more evidence of corruption and incompetence from the GOP, and I think it's going to be a bad thing for them.
No firm evidence of corruption was found against Wasim, but there was sufficient for Qayyum to rule that he should never hold the captaincy again, saying he was "not above suspicion".
Karzai publicly complained about what he described as the heavy-handed tactics of the American-backed investigators, and the case against Salehi was dropped, on the ground that Afghan law prohibits wiretap evidence in corruption cases.
It filed a 1782 action in San Francisco seeking information on the relationship between Chevron and Diego Borja, a character who filmed ex parte meetings with the judge that Chevron described as evidence of corruption.
"If abuse of power, lying in court, withholding evidence, bribing trial witnesses and generally rigging a trial are evidence of corruption, then the East India Company -- together with the Admiralty -- were as corrupt as they come, " concluded Konstam.
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Mr Riaz did not directly accuse Mr Chaudhry of corruption, and there is no evidence that the chief justice benefited from the money, but he also apparently asked no questions about his son's extravagant ways.
Mr Roh's accusers added charges of corruption and incompetence, arguing without much evidence that he was guilty by association with tainted aides.
But on Wednesday February 1st, Mr Kibaki's own government began to unravel as evidence of high-level corruption spread and his finance minister, David Mwiraria, resigned.
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.
There is some concrete evidence of progress in combating corruption.
An apparently strong case against Alfonso Portillo, a former president, for stealing public funds, was dismissed by a court in May, which CICIG took as evidence of the judiciary's continuing corruption.
Mr Fitrat claimed the government had interfered in his efforts to pursue those responsible for corruption at the Kabul Bank, which almost collapsed in 2010 after evidence of large-scale embezzlement emerged.
The taint of criminality has now returned, following the revelations of a Royal Commission of inquiry into police corruption in Sydney that finished its hearings on March 13th, after taking evidence from 640 witnesses over two years.
Corruption among prosecutors and the judiciary makes it hard to obtain convictions even after the police arrest suspects and collect evidence, complains Boiko Borisov, who resigned as Bulgaria's chief policeman to win a parliamentary seat for Mr Saxe-Coburg's party.
His former chief of staff, Paul Mifsud, received a six-month jail sentence for evidence tampering and forgery, and Voinovich's brother has been criticized for his role in a local corruption scandal.
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