61.   He is charged with ensuring that his party profited from his positions as interior minister and deputy interior minister by directing money to Shas institutions through local city governments.

62.   He has served as a judge, mayor, attorney general, peace negotiator and interior minister.

63.   He was also a close adviser of Mullah Khaksar, the deputy interior minister under the Taliban, who surrendered to the Northern Alliance.

64.   He is to be succeeded by Nikolai Dobrev, the interior minister, who was chosen prime minister-designate after a fractious Socialist Party congress last month.

65.   He named a new interior minister, replacing Emilio Chuayffet with Francisco Labastida Ochoa.

66.   He was named interior minister two days later.

67.   His education minister, Manuel Bartlett Diaz, had been implicated in the case while serving as interior minister.

68.   His interior minister offered an amnesty.

69.   His interior minister was one of a few cabinet members to survive a recent shakeup.

70.   His interior minister, Ljube Boskovski, pulled out of a newly formed government crisis committee on Tuesday, saying it was giving in too much to Albanian demands.