61.   Tokyo prosecutors Wednesday raided the head office of Yamaichi Securities Co., a major Japanese brokerage, in a widening payoffs scandal to a corporate racketeer.

62.   Worries about a widening payoff scandal involving major Japanese financial institutions pushed Tokyo share prices sharply lower Tuesday.

63.   Yamaichi also suffered from the fallout of a payoff scandal that broke earlier this year.

64.   Indian federal detectives Monday said they had enough evidence to charge two opposition leaders in a huge payoff scandal which has claimed several political scalps.

65.   Indian taxmen raided the houses of half-a-dozen prominent politicians and bureaucrats linked to a huge payoff scandal, officials said Thursday.

66.   The payoff scandal has jolted the Indian political establishment as the alleged recipients of the bribes belong to almost all major parties, except the communists.

67.   The statement, however, failed to stem calls for Rao to reveal all he knows about the payoff scandal.

68.   Three Indian cabinet ministers named in a huge payoff scandal on Wednesday resigned from the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, domestic news agencies reported.

69.   Last week, Seoul city mayor Cho Soon apologized over a massive payoff scandal which led to the arrest of five bus company owners and two city officials.