31.   The suspension is the first disciplinary action since the alleged bribery scandal broke last month.

32.   The Swiss disclosed last week that Canada had asked for a freeze on certain bank accounts in connection with an investigation into alleged bribery.

33.   With his vice president facing possible trial before Congress for alleged bribery, President Sixto Duran-Ballen has taken the offensive and launched an anti-corruption campaign.

34.   A son of South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung was grilled by prosecutors for a second day Thursday over allegations of alleged bribery and money-laundering.

35.   An Indian court Tuesday quashed a federal investigation into alleged bribery charges against Hindu nationalist leader Lal Krishna Advani and another politician.

36.   Carignon, whose incarceration in unprecedented in modern French politics, resigned from the government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in July over alleged bribery.

37.   The police chief for corruption investigations, Anton Wahono, was quoted by Detikcom as saying eight witnesses were being questioned in the alleged bribery case.

38.   The race to secure the contract has been marred by the leak of military secrets and alleged bribery, which led to the arrest of three air force officers.

39.   The search was part of a two-week enquiry by South Korean security authorities into the leak of military secrets and alleged bribery.

40.   The BBC Panorama current affairs programme said that GTECH was the subject of four FBI investigations for alleged bribery to secure state lottery contracts in the United States.