11.   Four dozen top South Korean business magnates have undergone intensive interrogation in the past month.

12.   Two more South Korean business magnates will be indicted soon on charges of bribing jailed former president Roh Tae-Woo, a senior prosecutor said Friday.

13.   The business magnates had appealed for leniency, saying it would hurt the economy if their overseas projects and business deals with foreign partners were interrupted.

14.   The Freedom Alliance centred round former prime minister and business magnate Berlusconi seems to have lost some its capacity to mobilise support.