1.   A spokesman for the prosecutors office was unavailable for comment.

2.   Officials at the Mannheim prosecutors office were unavailable to comment.

3.   Rainer Schilling, a spokesman for the Frankfurt prosecutors office, indicated another announcement could come this week.

4.   That iron-clad lease, by the way, was shipped over to the county prosecutors office.

5.   The Dusseldorf prosecutors office declined to comment on whether it had received such a report.

6.   The federal prosecutors office in Kansas City had no comment about the nature of its investigation.

7.   The investigation is being conducted jointly with the SESC, which regulates the securities industry, according to the official at the prosecutors office.

8.   The prosecutor general office will publish a full communique later in the afternoon, Restoul said.

9.   The prosecutors office declined to comment on the report.

10.   The Stuttgart prosecutors office said it was probing two former Mercedes executives, neither of whom were management board members, and one other person outside the company.