1.   The decision caps weeks of speculation about who would run the company and months of corruption accusations against its managers, which were recently echoed at the Kremlin.

2.   The corruption accusations surfaced six weeks after Balaguer left office.

3.   Battling corruption accusations, Blatter is seeking re-election as president but is facing strong competition from African soccer chief Issa Hayatou.

4.   Corruption accusations and other efforts to discredit politicians have increased as the parliamentary vote approaches.

5.   Corruption accusations include applying for shares designated for Malays only and then selling them off to Chinese, Indians and other non-Malays.

6.   He has made corruption accusations against the FBI, former Attorney General Janet Reno and federal prosecutors in Ohio.

7.   Hariri also defended himself against the corruption accusations that blemished his previous stint as premier.

8.   He made repeated corruption accusations against the FBI, former U.S. Attorney Janet Reno and federal prosecutors in Ohio.

9.   He also rejected recent corruption accusations against him by leftist congressman Jose Antonio Viera-Gallo.

10.   He had been dismissed from the top government job amid informal corruption accusations in July.