11.   Some parties require parliament members to pay part of their lawmaker salary into party coffers.

12.   The governing Labor Party added that although Enron had bought tickets to Labor dinners and sponsored one Labor event, the company had donated no money to party coffers.

13.   The money is expected to have gone into RPR party coffers.

14.   The payments were funneled straight into party coffers, Le Monde said.

15.   According to the allegations, companies seeking development contracts made large payments which enriched Socialist party coffers as well as the personal fortunes of politicians.

16.   And soon after Labour took power, it emerged that Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone had donated one million pounds to party coffers.

17.   Montedison set up a Swiss-based slush fund to pay sums into party coffers.