1.   Among those Gutierrez prosecuted for the crime were two former federal police commanders with alleged underworld connections, Martinez said.

2.   ...a wealthy businessman with underworld connections.

3.   As the film shows, Sinatra used his popularity and underworld connections to help Kennedy get elected, only to be discarded when he was no longer useful.

4.   The government prosecutor claims Andreotti then intervened with his underworld connections, countermanding the rescue attempt.

5.   The unraveling of political and underworld connections, the violent deaths and a revolving door of bad guys sometimes come at a machine-gun pace that numbs the mind.

6.   Police now believe Cools was killed after he threatened to reveal the underworld connections of Van der Biest, Taxquet and others.

7.   Police believe Mafia hitmen from Italy were hired to kill Cools after he threatened to reveal underworld connections of Van der Biest and his associates.

8.   Last week, his interior minister acknowledged that corruption and underworld connections were rife within the police and even penetrated higher levels of government.

9.   You have to drop the underworld connection and look somewhere else.

10.   The group chairman admitted renting properties to gangsters but said he did not realise their underworld connections at the time.