It has also sacked several corrupt officials in the state telecoms company and the customs department.
Certainly Lord Ashdown and his predecessors have increasingly often sacked inept or corrupt officials, indeed elected politicians.
The G-20 grouping of big economies has also endorsed the idea of using visa bans against corrupt officials.
He offered a referendum in September on a new constitution that would make it easier to pursue corrupt officials.
Selling them will be a temptation for poor, corrupt officials around the world.
The protesters were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, reforms to parliament and for corrupt officials to stand trial.
If Mr Salazar tried to do anything serious, such as overhauling the state justice system or pursuing corrupt officials, he could be blocked.
Mr Orban, who was prime minister between 1998 and 2002, promises to create a million jobs over the next decade and to bring corrupt officials to justice.
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It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.
The Portuguese administration says it has now done much to improve the efficiency of its law enforcement: streamlining the police force, rooting out corrupt officials and arresting the five main triad heads in Macau.
Last month, a senior anticorruption official told the state-run Xinhua news agency that China will strengthen the measures it uses to recover corrupt officials' illicit assets transferred abroad and ask other countries to freeze those assets.
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Noting that he signed a proclamation Monday denying entry into the United States to corrupt officials, Bush called on the hemisphere's other heads of state to fight corruption in their countries and deny safe haven to corrupt individuals.
Lauderdale law enforcement, Rothstein used scheme proceeds to corrupt city officials, businessmen, and public businesses.
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But Cambodia already has an effective tariff of zero, thanks to its long and porous borders and corrupt customs officials.
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Giuliani seemed able to summon a concentrated contempt for any lawbreaker in sight, but he harbored a special disdain for corrupt public officials.
The Algerian border is close and porous enough to keep supplies of food, diesel and ammunition flowing in - as long as corrupt local officials can be bribed or forced to turn a blind eye.
Urdangarin and his partner, Diego Torres, are under investigation for allegedly using the company to siphon millions of euros in taxpayer money, obtained in collusion with corrupt regional officials, to offshore bank accounts and his own companies.
The center right parties tend to have an edge over socialists on this topic because they have successfully conveyed the impression of distancing themselves from corrupt police officials and therefore a center bloc might be able to regain a bit of often gutted trust among the voters, in particular in the urban centers.
Mr Berezovsky alleges corrupt ties between Swiss officials and his political enemies in Moscow.
Operation Elveden is looking at allegations that journalists made corrupt payments to public officials, including police officers, in return for information.
The move came on the day officers from Operation Elveden - the Metropolitan Police investigation into alleged corrupt payments to public officials - made their 60th arrest.
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Jonas Dischl-Luell of AWK Group, a Swiss firm, sells software that scans e-mail addresses to see if any employees are in contact, even indirectly, with officials in corrupt governments.
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American officials deem Mr Zardari corrupt and impotent, and accuse military intelligence of colluding with the Taliban.
Operation Tuleta - which deals mainly with computer hacking - is connected to Operation Weeting, the Met's investigation into phone hacking, and to Operation Elveden, which is looking at corrupt payments by journalists to public officials.
The FAS said the officials were "assisting the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau in their investigations".
Tierney and Trunkfield had been charged as part of the Operation Elveden inquiry into corrupt payments made by journalists to public officials, in return for information.
The company allegedly violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing Argentine customs officials responsible for approving the entrance of the company merchandise into the South American nation.
The risk of prosecution under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars bribery of foreign officials, also looms in the shadows.
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act forbids American companies from bribing foreign officials.
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