41.   The scandal involved businessman Eddy Tansil, who is still at large.

42.   The sokaiya scandal also involves Nomura Securities Co., where former officials, including ex-president Hideo Sakamaki, are alleged to have given illegal payoffs to Koike.

43.   The scandal involved price fixing of medical supplies.

44.   The scandal involves a Swiss bishop who resigned last week because he made a woman pregnant.

45.   The scandal involves alleged wrongdoing carried out while Le Floch-Prigent headed the state oil company Elf.

46.   The scandal involves the discovery that some top political leaders telephones were tapped during talks on forming a new government.

47.   The scandal involves allegations that police officers beat and framed innocent people.

48.   Those scandals involved only one political party and both had presidents at their center.

49.   The scandal involves hundreds of cars unaccounted for.

50.   The scandal involves a now defunct trading company Tamexco, formerly owned by a cell of the ruling Communist Party in the southern city.