1.   Perez said that there were virtually no procedures in place to weed out corrupt officials.

2.   Our federal agents and big-city cops know how mafias corrupt officials, and are wise to the latest computer techniques in moving hot money to foreign fronts.

3.   Such tactics include entry through more remote points along the border, increased use of fraudulent border-crossing documents, and more payoffs to corrupt officials.

4.   The book is a crucial guide to how criminals have corrupted public officials, used the latest in technology and armaments, mastered the complexities of laundering money.

5.   Opposition parties have accused ministers of stealing land, corrupting bank officials, rigging financial markets, accepting bribes from arms manufacturers and fabricating evidence against rivals.

6.   Many Christians are ethnic Chinese, who have often been targeted in riots because of their relative wealth and perceived links to corrupt government officials.

7.   Israeli newspapers have accused the Russian mafia of corrupting municipal officials.