1.   Local media have linked Argentine businessman Alfredo Yabran with the murder.

2.   Local media have linked the clients to organized crime groups, called sokaiya, that blackmail companies by threatening to disrupt shareholder meetings or reveal embarrassing information.

3.   Nomura Securities President Hideo Sakamaki will step down after the company became embroiled in a scandal over unauthorized trades that Japanese media have linked to racketeers.

4.   Nomura Securities Co. is under investigation for illegally passing along trading profits to favored clients which local media have linked with organized crime groups.

5.   Nomura Securities is under investigation for allegedly having passed along trading profits illegally to favored clients that local media have linked with organized crime groups.

6.   Nomura Securities is under investigation for illegally passing along trading profits to favored clients that local media have linked with organized crime groups.

7.   Sakamaki resigned over allegedly illegal payments to a customer whom the media link to organized crime.

8.   Russian media have also linked the affair to presidential campaigning in the United States.

9.   Russian media have linked the poultry ban to the long-threatened U.S. tariffs on steel, a major Russian export.

10.   Some Ukrainian media linked him to a July assassination attempt on Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, which Shcherban repeatedly denied.