They are settling in Guatemala precisely because of the general corruption, the easiness with which police are bribed and co-opted, the government's weakness and the heavy presence of gangs that extend a hand to them.
Mr Habibie has tried to head off demands for a commercial witch-hunt by ordering a more general inquiry into corruption, headed by the attorney-general's office.
The PML (Q)'s talks with Ms Bhutto's party foundered on her insistence that General Musharraf drop corruption charges against herself and her husband, who is in prison in Pakistan.
The country had descended into anarchy, he said, with crime and corruption and general moral collapse.
Efforts to intimidate or chastise an inspector general for investigating agency corruption and submitting findings to the Justice Department are simply incompatible with honest government.
Golkar's Marzuki Darusman, the attorney-general, has spearheaded the corruption investigation against Suharto and ordered the arrest of Bob Hasan, a Suharto business crony.
The least happy places (such as Moldova) are often former Soviet republics, where new political freedoms are undercut by general mistrust, nepotism, corruption and envy.
The Congress party, which has promised people stronger anti-corruption laws, actually gave tickets to 24 candidates facing corruption charges in general and state assembly polls in the last five years.
In running against Schneiderman, Donovan had promised to increase the attorney general's focus on public corruption.
The governor has a history of fighting public corruption while state attorney general from 2007 through 2010.
Mr Zakhilwal had been under pressure to name them after making general accusations earlier this year about corruption in parliament.
Members of the old political guard are worried about the increasing independence of the general prosecutor and the anti-corruption office, who might go after them.
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The Washington based World Justice Project conducts the review annually to better gauge progress in which countries are improving in terms of corruption, security and general governance.
During the last general elections alone, 15 candidates with corruption cases against them were given tickets by political parties - the Congress party awarded four such candidates.
The former state lobbying executive director said governors and legislatures focus on new ethics laws in press conferences, while the small stuff that foster what Cuomo as attorney general had called a "culture of corruption" goes untouched.
Republicans alleged that as attorney general, Madrid failed to dig out the corruption.
The state-run media gave him a pounding before the general election last December, alleging murder, corruption, fraud, links to Scientology and so on.
Two months later the prosecutor-general was fired and thrown in jail on charges of corruption.
The attorney general and the supreme court are opposed to dropping the corruption charges against Mr Zelaya.
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Many eyes will be on the new attorney-general, a post regarded as toxic considering the rampant corruption within the legal system.
In January 2006 Fatah's loss to Hamas in a general election was owing to resentment of its leaders' corruption and abuse of power.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who took office in 2011 pledging to clean up state government, on Tuesday defended his own record of public-corruption cases during his tenure as state attorney general.
The irony in this case is that in his previous job as New York's attorney general, Spitzer was not only an attack dog against corruption, particularly on Wall Street, but he also prosecuted several prostitution rings.
Mr Bremer is also nominating a bevy of general inspectors, one for each ministry, to sniff out corruption.
In 1982, her husband Yuri, whom Brezhnev had made a general and a government minister, was arrested, charged with corruption and jailed.
Thus encouraged, and with the country's secular institutions reeling under corruption and neglect, a sizeable part of the general population has been radicalised.
Miss Bhutto, who is in self-imposed exile sheltering from corruption charges, seemed willing to help if the general elections were to be free and fair.
Regarding the recent corruption case in the Lower Chamber, the vice-president who runs the government's anti-corruption programme, and the office of the prosecutor general, prompted the investigation leading to the arrest of several of those responsible.
Ms. ALICE FISHER (Assistant Attorney General): Abramoff has agreed to cooperate in the ongoing public corruption probe led by the Department of Justice.
The watchdog also found that 98 candidates facing corruption cases were given tickets by various political parties during general and state elections in the last five years.
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