31.   Elsewhere in the government, Boris Fyodorov, the new head of the State Tax Service, announced that he was purging his office of corrupt officials.

32.   Few people doubt that babies are bought and sold in Cambodia, bringing huge profits to a chain of corrupt officials and middlemen.

33.   Finally, the indictment says Orlandez-Gamboa had ordered his foot soldiers to carry out assassinations or kidnappings of rival drug dealers, and to bribe corrupt officials.

34.   He could also break the long taboo against investigating and prosecuting corrupt former cabinet officials.

35.   He had watched raid after raid compromised by corrupt officials.

36.   He said he received only about a fifth of the compensation that he was promised because several corrupt local officials each took a cut.

37.   He met strong resistance when he tried to engineer changes in the military, bring abusive soldiers and corrupt officials to trial, call the Suharto family to account.

38.   He organized the corrupt officials into a coordinated apparatus, Peruvian prosecutors allege.

39.   Human rights groups say that corrupt officials have siphoned off millions, a charge that the government denies.

40.   In a country swarming with corrupt officials, Estrada became something of the fall guy.