1.   Prosecutors also questioned the then finance minister, J.B. Sumarlin.

2.   However, Bodi Chunnananda, the then Finance minister, told Rerngchai that he was ready to support any foreign exchange adjustments.

3.   The then finance minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda assigned the bank to assist local development by lending to groups of local borrowers and cooperatives.

4.   The then minister of education, Syarif Thayeb scorned the students as amateurs.

5.   A similar complaint was filed against the then defence minister, Leo Delcroix, last year.

6.   Also last year the then justice minister, Bola Ige, said he did would fight the sentence.

7.   Also last year the then justice minister, Bola Ige, said he would fight the sentence.

8.   But he was cleared and immediately reinstated following inquiries by the then justice minister.

9.   Claes, the then economics minister, is suspected of being informed of the payment.

10.   The then development aid minister, Gaullist Michel Roussin, was forced to resign after being charged with fraud in the case.