1.   There had been fears the scheme had collapsed.

2.   As soon as it became impossible to drum up enough new investors to pay off the expanding base of earlier arrivals, the schemes collapsed.

3.   Beginning in March, demonstrators took to the streets of Albanian cities demanding redress for the large sums of money many of them lost when pyramid investment schemes collapsed.

4.   Even though the scheme collapsed and cost hundreds of people their life savings, Funar remains mayor.

5.   Predictably, the crazy scheme collapsed.

6.   Rather than leave office when the pyramid schemes his government had endorsed collapsed, he chose to foment gang violence and looting.

7.   The whole grand scheme collapsed of its own weight.

8.   Violence erupted in Albania in February, after many citizens lost their life savings when more than a dozen high-profile pyramid schemes collapsed.

9.   Western governments, including officials from Washington, warned the Berisha government that the pyramid schemes would collapse, diplomats said.

10.   When his scheme collapsed, he fled to Montserrat, a British colony where he had set up a bank.