1.   Charges of political graft are nothing new in Pakistan.

2.   Investigators have said the money might have come from some combination of organized crime, corporate embezzlement and political graft.

3.   Investigators say it is very likely that the bulk of the money that flowed through the bank is tied to corporate embezzlement and political graft in Russia.

4.   Investigators examining the suspect transactions at the Bank of New York think that some of the funds may represent the proceeds of political graft in Russia.

5.   The old Christian Democratic and Socialist parties were destroyed by the fallout of the Clean Hands inquiry, which revealed political graft at the highest level.