1.   BCH would concentrate on controlling costs, cleaning up questionable loans and improving its banking operations, he said.

2.   But like most large Russian banks, it made questionable loans to related companies or gambled large sums on risky securities.

3.   Large banks eagerly introduced crooked clients to subsidiary banks or credit co-ops in order to keep questionable loans off their own books while hoping to benefit from the business.

4.   Lenox and Walch maintain that the bank illegally destroyed records of questionable loans to cover up its fraudulent practices.

5.   Selig has barred owners from speaking about contraction and the collective bargaining negotiations with the players, but he allowed them to defend the questionable loans.

6.   The report says that the questionable loans generally are made by non-bank lenders such as mortgage companies, consumer-finance companies, mortgage brokers and private individuals.

7.   A former top executive of a major Japanese commercial bank pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges of conspiracy involving questionable loans to a corporate racketeer.

8.   Banking officials also reformed the system two years ago to prevent the types of questionable loans that have gotten other Asian banks in trouble.

9.   Bich and Tung also stand accused of providing a number of questionable loans to other private companies, the state-controlled Labor newspaper said.

10.   Minh Phung is under investigation for a series of questionable loans and bad property deals.