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...deal to have a small number of corrupt officials." LU YOUMEI, former president of China's Three Gorges Project Corporation, dismissing an official admission of widespread graft involving 200 local cadres who pilfered funds for relocating residents displaced by the Yangtze River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...River; in Seoul. Park was under investigation by the Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office for suspected corruption while he was president of the National Health Insurance Corp. His is the fourth apparent suicide in the past year of a Korean business or political leader suspected of graft or bribery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

Then there is the burgeoning scandal over the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food program, which supervised relief to Iraq from 1996–2003. Through smuggling and graft, Saddam’s regime stole more than $10 billion from the program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi?...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The U.N.'s Paladin at Harvard | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...Corruption Indonesia ranks as the world's 12th most corrupt country, according to Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog. The government, say critics, has failed to tackle entrenched graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megawati's Report Card | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...December ? The National Assembly passes a bill setting up an independent probe into election graft; Roh pledges to resign if investigators find his election campaign accepted more than one-tenth the amount of illegal contributions allegedly received by the opposition Grand National Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Path To Impeachment | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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