Spaniards have long suspected that there is graft in their town halls, whichever party runs them.
January sees the first report of an investigation into allegations of huge graft in the build-up to the Commonwealth games.
There has been no political will to tackle graft in a country where many politicians are seen to be extremely corrupt.
Last week, the Senate released a report finding Ramos and five former cabinet members indictable for graft in connection with the nation's 100-year birthday party.
Parlour often provided the graft in the heart of midfield at Highbury but nevertheless scored a spectacular goal against Chelsea in the 2002 FA Cup Final.
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As new allegations surface daily about graft in the governing Workers' Party, Mr Felipe may decide to show his spine by being tough on foreign drug firms.
Rumours of graft in infrastructure deals persist.
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The former judge quickly showed his commitment to reform by unraveling some of the hidden but deeply embedded graft in Seoul's defense and weapons-purchase programs, a move that did little to endear him to that important sector of the Korean establishment.
In a move that signals the Obama administration may be getting more serious about cleaning up graft in Afghanistan, the U.S. government on Friday targeted prominent Afghan bankers who have long been suspected of ties to corruption and the Taliban, imposing financial sanctions against them and a money exchange business because they facilitated billions of dollars in transactions for two drug organizations.
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At an Oct. 12 press conference in Jakarta, Winters said some ministers in the government of former president SUHARTO whom he claimed had been involved in graft are now involved in efforts to clean up corruption.
But after a 2007 amnesty on graft prosecutions in Pakistan, Islamabad told the Swiss court it no longer wanted to cooperate.
Adding Biogen Idec would graft labs in California and Massachusetts to this just-created construct, or else shift them into a parallel research and development operation Pfizer is just starting to build from close to scratch out of San Francisco.
Many Pakistanis agree that only draconian measures will make a dent in graft -- and declining law-and-order.
Depending on its origin, a graft can differ in size, thickness and how fast it generates tissue.
They focus on the graft that unfolds in local precincts, where, the theory goes, ordinary Afghans feel the impact most.
One thing you can say is that he has never been accused of or involved in graft, and that's a big advantage.
In its latest progress report on Poland's fitness to join the European Union, which it hopes to do next year, the European Commission scolded Warsaw for not doing enough to tackle graft, especially in the police and border-guard services.
In the mid-1980s he abandoned law for politics, fiercely denouncing graft during televised hearings in the National Assembly.
In a fashion later described as bordering on the surreal, Karzai denied that graft was a serious issue in Afghanistan and changed the subject.
Graft is hardly new in India: the Bofors scandal brought down the government in 1989.
The patient received her new face in one graft from a donor cadaver.
The branch, which is called Suishinkai, specialised in construction graft on public contracts.
What was the problem in voting for a less than perfect bill and make a beginning in combating graft?
His sentence was later extended to 28.5 years when he was convicted of an additional 24 graft-related charges in April 2009.
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Lee has not been helping his cause with a series of late pardons of friends and allies in the graft-worn political system.
So does his flagging campaign against graft gets a shot in the arm after the failure of India's politicians to come up a strong anti-corruption law?
The graft has been tested in the laboratory, and the Imperial team are now beginning trials of the "Swirlgraft" in patients in conjunction with experts in other parts of Europe.
But while parents in this area supported the Sheikh's war on graft and welcomed his financial help in this grindingly poor place, they felt differently when their children started to vanish.
But coming on the back of a growing countrywide campaign against corruption, Mr Kejriwal's yet unnamed party may well touch a chord among people who have become increasingly fed up of graft and malfeasance found in some leaders and officials.
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