The branch, which is called Suishinkai, specialised in construction graft on public contracts.
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Que was convicted on one charge of graft, while Zhang was found guilty on counts of graft, embezzlement of corporate funds and causing a serious accident, the paper said.
In 2011 the CAG turned its sights on graft and ineptitude at the Delhi Commonwealth games and on a Mumbai property scam cooked up by top military officers.
His tenure will depend, in large part, on the outcome of a new campaign: his attack on graft.
Although they would try to graft Internet technology on to their old networks, he argued, they were doomed to fail.
For one, it is clear that most Indians don't believe that the government is serious about cracking down on graft.
But after a 2007 amnesty on graft prosecutions in Pakistan, Islamabad told the Swiss court it no longer wanted to cooperate.
Rather than build a full media hub, ASUS appears to be crafting a possibly Roku-like dongle that would graft Google TV on to a host device through USB.
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.
Most encouragingly, an expert on graft and a former correspondent for The Economist, John Githongo, was appointed as the government's anti-corruption supremo and told to hack out the rot wherever he found it.
They focus on the graft that unfolds in local precincts, where, the theory goes, ordinary Afghans feel the impact most.
The party, he added, would be hoping to avoid taking action on the graft order before parliamentary elections, due in 2013.
True, outgoing procurator general Zhang Siqing droned on about the graft cases being pursued against senior officials.
Karzai has been regularly accused of prosecuting low-level graft while ignoring massive thievery on the part of friends or powerful allies.
Mr. Zardari spent 11 years in detention on charges of graft, many of them during Mr. Musharraf's government, but has never been formally convicted of corruption.
The case relates to the dubious manner in which telecom licences (or 2G spectrum) were granted in 2008 by the erstwhile telecoms minister A.Raja, since arrested on allegations of graft ( He has denied wrongdoing).
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The days of surviving or even prospering based on hard work, graft, defending well and taking advantage of set plays are gone.
Less spending should be focused on cutting waste and graft, and preserving, as much as possible, the important services that actually benefit the citizens.
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The centrist conservative party was in power twice in the 90s, with both terms ending amid damaging allegations of corruption, despite campaigning on an anti-graft platform.
Depending on its origin, a graft can differ in size, thickness and how fast it generates tissue.
If Mr Hazare's movement goads the government into bringing out a firm anti-graft law - the jury is still out on that one - and both he and the politicians learn their lessons from the experience, it would have served its purpose.
In recent years, the King has spoken out about the dangers of graft, environmental degradation, over-reliance on foreign investment and even the chronically gridlocked traffic in Bangkok--all issues affecting the everyday life of Thai citizens that their governments have been slow to address.
The tycoons' case will be weakened by the surprise arrest on March 29th, for alleged graft, of two major property developers, reported to be Raymond and Thomas Kwok of Sun Hung Kai Properties, as well as a former high government official, reported to be Rafael Hui.
"The problem there is that that vein graft is developing disease, and sometimes it goes on and develops more, " he said.
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In a fashion later described as bordering on the surreal, Karzai denied that graft was a serious issue in Afghanistan and changed the subject.
The president seems sincere in his abhorrence of corruption, but unwilling to take on vested interests threatened by the anti-graft drive.
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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But then there is Indonesia, fourth most populous nation on earth and rent by strife, debt, graft and terrorism.
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