1.   For months the Yeltsin family has been at the centre of corruption allegations.

2.   The Mayor, Pietro Giubilo, had to quit in the face of corruption allegations involving companies linked to Communion and Liberation.

3.   There will also be further reforms in the banking sector, plagued by corruption allegations.

4.   Mr Bird remained unmoved by the corruption allegations.

5.   He claimed that his Socialist opponents had used corruption allegations to hound him from office, and that fellow right-wing politicians in Paris had abandoned him.

6.   And it would outflank his opponents, who want to undermine him with corruption allegations.

7.   As Mexico was being rocked by those tremors, American officials took inventory of the corruption allegations they had against leading members of the Mexican elite.

8.   At first blush it might appear that the corruption allegations could taint a public official who earned his reputation as a corruption-fighting federal prosecutor.

9.   Bratton said that he purposely declined to promote Manetta while the corruption allegations were pending but that he now considers the charges unsubstantiated.

10.   A steady stream of smallish stories have filled the papers lately keeping corruption allegations linked to Chirac on the front burner.