41.   Prosecution officials earlier said that South Korea had jurisdiction over the case because most of the victims were South Koreans.

42.   Prosecution officials say they had been grilling both dealers and Daewoo officials.

43.   Prosecution officials said they would look into the libel case at the earliest possible date.

44.   Prosecutors opened an investigation Friday after graft allegations were levelled by the opposition, and prosecution officials said Monday they had been questioning both dealers and Daewoo officials.

45.   Roh, who was stripped of all his presidential privileges, was escorted in between two prosecution officials, to a black limousine that whisked him to jail.

46.   South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday added a new charge of embezzlement to fraud charges against the patriarch of the failed Hanbo business Group, a prosecution official said.

47.   The deputy prosecutor general for southern Russia, Vladimir Kravchenko, will lead the investigation, the RIA-Novosti news agency cited a prosecution official as saying.

48.   The Dutch news agency quoted a prosecution services official in Amsterdam as saying the probe into possible embassy involvement had been abandoned for lack of evidence.

49.   The magistrate extended the detention of Asif Ali Zardari after considering supporting evidence from prosecution officials.

50.   The murder of former Iranian premier Shahpur Bakhtiar was organized from within the heart of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a senior prosecution official said Friday.