11.   But it is just as likely that Adamov was fired as a result of lingering corruption allegations.

12.   Corruption allegations against a former foreign minister have rocked what confidence the French still had in their elites after a string of scandals.

13.   Corruption allegations dog most senior officials in the Cambodian government.

14.   Despite repeated denials, the corruption allegations seem to have stuck for voters.

15.   First corruption allegations, then a stunning defeat in parliament, and now a sex scandal.

16.   He has not been indicted, but until Monday he was the highest-ranking Mexican politician to be investigated so closely on corruption allegations while still in office.

17.   He is hemmed in by corruption allegations that threaten to engulf the entire political class.

18.   In Russia, corruption allegations against leading politicians and businessmen, whether or not they are true, usually have little to do with fighting corruption.

19.   In Russia, corruption allegations against top officials, however true the charges may turn out to be, usually have little to do with fighting corruption.

20.   Kim resigned from the leadership of his party in November in a similar bid to defuse the escalating corruption allegations.