11.   His wife faces two counts of similar offences with the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she is an associate professor.

12.   Last May, Yau was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for similar offences, prosecutor John Wright said.

13.   Police said the burglar, who has not been named, had a previous conviction for a similar offence.

14.   The factory had been compounded for similar offences before.

15.   The third man was wanted by detectives for questioning in relation to similar offences.

16.   He also said he had committed similar offences in other regions of Russia, according to investigators who checked his story.

17.   He was sent off two years ago for a similar offence while playing for his club Sampdoria.

18.   A Catholic priest serving a four-year jail term for sexually abusing children was Friday given an additional three years for similar offences.

19.   A prosecutor was meanwhile trying to determine whether former deputy justice minister Reidunn Lauren, of the opposition Conservative Party, was guilty of similar offences.

20.   Coates said FINA would also take into consideration the fact that the IOC had only handed down three-month penalties for similar offences at previous Games.