11.   The two other accused officials are Andrew Ntagerura, a former transport minister, and head of Cyangugu prefecture, Emmanuel Bagambiki.

12.   Former transport minister Carlo Bernini and a leading figure in the former Christian Democratic party, Severino Citaristi, will also appear before the court.

13.   He was replaced as chairman by former transport minister Brian Mawhinney.

14.   Interfax reported that Karim Masimov, a former transport and communications minister, and Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, a former justice minister, had also been named deputy prime ministers.

15.   Convicted along with Marcos for the same offence was former transport secretary Jose Dans.

16.   Former transport minister Jacques Leonard takes over as President of the Treasury Board and civil service minister, two jobs previously handled by Marois.

17.   The reports said the vessel had been chartered by Shintaro Ishihara, an outspoken nationalist politician and former transport minister who recently retired from politics.

18.   The resignation came as a new blow for the authority whose president, a former transport ministry official, is already under fire in a sex scandal.

19.   The study group is headed by Jacques Douffiagues, former French transport minister.

20.   It said former transport minister Wijayapala Mendis received valuable land from the state in exchange for an unproductive plot of land that he gave the government.