( See Corruption scandals in the Paris region )

The ICAPP Special Workshop on State Subsidies for Mainstream Political Parties as a Means to Prevent Political Corruption was held in Seoul during May 23 – 25, 2008 and attended by 65 representatives from 34 major political parties in 29 countries in the region.

Corruption is also a major problem in the region, although it is certainly not universal or limited to Africa.

Inspired by Klein & MBO's " Dirty Talk " and Sylvester's disco classic, " You Make Me Feel ( Mighty Real )", " Blue Monday " became the best-selling independent 12 " single of all time in the UK ; however, ( much to the chagrin of the buying public ) it was not on the track list of Power, Corruption & Lies.

The summit did, however, promise to implement 50 of the Commission's 90 recommendations including: $ 36bn of debt relief in 100 % debt cancellation delivered for 19 countries ; the launch of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund ( CERF ); doubling previous levels of aid for basic education, to remove school fees, and to scale up efforts to boost girls ’ participation and female literacy ; two million additional Africans given antiretroviral treatment for HIV / AIDS ; immunisation programmes which have stopped the transmission of polio everywhere except Nigeria ; training 20, 000 more African peacekeepers ; tightening controls on the trade in small arms ; working more closely with the African Union and its New Partnership for Africa ( Nepad ) programme to make African governments more accountable to their people ; pressing rich nations to ratify the UN Convention on Corruption ; putting in place measures to return cash looted by dictators from Western banks to the legitimate owners ; and using export credits to clamp down on Western companies who pay bribes.

One of her poems, however, Corruption of Metals, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

The country has consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt nations according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of perceived political corruption.

The development and growth of internet infrastructure has been particularly slow in Lebanon due to Corruption and allegations of a sector Monopoly.

In fact, Nigeria's ranking has consistently improved since 2001 ranking 147 out of 180 countries in Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index.

" Rwanda " is a stutter-step anthem of sympathy for a devastated country ; " Corruption " has an atonal power-chord progression and headlong tempo that Minor Threat would have killed for ; and " Blackhawk Down " is built on a ridiculously catchy descending bassline and a distinctly Oi !- flavored singalong chorus.

In a post-credits scene only able to be seen if the player has collected 100 percent of the items, Metroid Prime uses the Phazon Suit to recreate its body, becoming the entity known as Dark Samus, the antagonist of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

It has revamped controls that use the Wii Remote's pointing functionality, similar to those of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

In 2008, Transparency International has measured the Corruption Perception Index for Estonia to be at 6. 6 ( CI 6. 2 – 6. 9 ), ranking it 27th in a list of 180 countries.

It is widely rumoured that TVB distributes the awards to those who are obedient to the company's demands, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption has investigated the arrangement of the awards.

He has presented a Paper on Law relating to Corruption and Crime in India before the Indo-British Legal Forum.

It has revamped controls that use the Wii Remote's pointing functionality, similar to those of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

The ICAC has three divisions: Operations, Community Relations, and Corruption Prevention.

Corruption has been a major area of focus in the Hu-Wen Administration, although the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures has been disputed.

Since the 1970s, the power of triads has further diminished due to the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1974.

In the past, this has contributed to a sense of immunity on the part of members of the ruling party, and to a public perception of rampant corruption among leading politicians – in 1997, Pakistan received the second-worst score in the world on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.

# The extent to which the country has taken steps to become a party to and implements the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption.

Corruption has been a problem in Romania since Communist times, but the situation has recently improved.

Corruption or loss of the signal will produce “ red alarm .” Connectivity has been lost toward the alarming equipment.

During his time as chair, Elbegdorj has led initiatives within the coalition to promote Zero Tolerance to Corruption and Education for Democracy and also spoke on behalf of these initiatives at the 66th General Assembly of United Nations.

At May 24, 2011 Mahfud MD has reported M. Nazaruddin to the Corruption Eradication Commission ( KPK ) for allegedly trying to give a court official gratuities.

* Waging War Against God ( moharebeh ) and Spreading Corruption on the Earth ( mofsede-fel-arz ): judge has option of 1 ) death penalty ; 2 ) crucifixion for three days ; 3 ) amputation of right hand and left foot ; 4 ) exile / imprisonment

The Charlatans ' lead singer Tim Burgess is a notable fan of the band and has cited Power, Corruption and Lies as his favourite album.

Patricia Adams, executive director of Probe International ( an environmental and public policy advocacy organisation in Canada ), and author of Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption, and the Third World's Environmental Legacy, has stated that:

He has served as a member of the Police Board of NSW, the Operation Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Management Committee of the State Crime Commission and a Councillor of the Royal Humane Society of NSW.

As early Napalm Death albums were not widely distributed in the United States, American groups tended to take inspiration from later works, such as Harmony Corruption.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

In 1984 they followed the largely synthesised single " Thieves Like Us " with the heavy guitar-drum-bass rumble of " Murder ", a not-too-distant cousin of " Ecstasy " from the Power, Corruption & Lies album.

Transparency International in its annual Corruption Perceptions Index for 2010 gave Saudi Arabia a score of 4. 7 ( on a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is " highly corrupt " and 10 is " highly clean ").

Corruption was so rife, that it was almost expected that a governor would come back from these appointments with his pockets full.

A poster from the Anti Corruption Commission.

* The Colossus, the name of a Space Pirate ship from the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

This group consists of representatives from a variety of FBI subprograms ( i. e. Economic Crimes Unit, Money Laundering Unit, LCN / Organized Crime Unit, Asian Organized Crime Unit, Public Corruption / Government Fraud Unit, Cryptographic Racketeering Analysis Unit, and Indian Country Special Jurisdiction Unit ) and other federal agencies, which include Department of Interior Office of Inspector General ( DOI-OIG ), NIGC, Internal Revenue Service Tribal Government Section ( IRS-TGS ), Department of Treasure Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FINCEN ), Department of Justice ( DOJ ), and Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Law Enforcement Services ( BIA-OLES ).

Passive bribery can be defined as the request or receipt any public official, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage, for himself or herself or for anyone else, or the acceptance of an offer or a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her functions ( article 3 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 )).

* Axel Dreher, Christos Kotsogiannis, Steve McCorriston ( 2004 ), Corruption Around the World: Evidence from a Structural Model.

) ( 2006 ), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History U. of Chicago Press, 386 pp. ISBN 0-226-29957-0.

The biblical designation Mount of Corruption, or in Hebrew Har HaMashchit ( I Kings 11: 7 – 8 ), derives from the idol worship there, begun by King Solomon building altars to the gods of his Moabite and Ammonite wives on the southern peak, " on the mountain which is before ( east of ) Jerusalem " ( Kings I 11: 17 ), just outside the limits of the holy city.

In an effort to combat corruption, the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative ( PACI ) was launched by CEOs from the Engineering and Construction, Energy and Metals and Mining industries at the Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2004.

Apart from the poem Petra, Burgon's most notable works for which he is remembered today are The Revision Revised which was a critique of the then-new Revised Version of the Bible ( 1881 ), The Last Twelve Verses of Mark, The Traditional Text, and Causes of Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels.

Section 19 of Prevention of Corruption Act says that, no court shall take cognisance unless it is sanctioned by the competent authority to remove the accused from service.

Passive bribery can be defined as the request or receipt any public official, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage, for himself or herself or for anyone else, or the acceptance of an offer or a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her functions ( article 3 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 )).

Corruption plagued Wu, and led to an easy downfall from the Jin empire.

The credit system from Corruption is also included to unlock the original bonus content, as well as the ability to take snapshots of gameplay.

Corruption makes changes in gameplay from Prime and Echoes, such as trading the assisted aiming for free aiming with the Wii Remote, and changing the interchangeable beams for a stackable upgrade system.

On October 23, 2006, the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong obtained approval from a Hong Kong court to arrest Zhou for allegedly providing false information to the city's stock market regulators in relation to his acquisition of a listed company in 2002.

Corruption and social decay force the CoDominium's BuReloc ( Bureau of Relocation ) to forcibly transport people from Earth to offworld colonies.

Corruption and embezzlement from the treasury and its inevitable exploitation were taken to extreme levels, and reached staggering proportions.

He also demonstrated his future skills as an advocate in a pamphlet entitled " Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army Arising from the Corruption of Civil Government with a Proposal toward Obtaining an Addition to Their Pay ".

Corruption allegations stemming from public contracts in the construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport also threatened to cloud the future of Thaksin's public infrastructure projects that formed the core of his second-term economic policies.

* The Gemstone File: Sixty years of Corruption and Manipulation Within World Government Detailing the Events Surrounding the Assassination of JFK by Richard Alan ( a pen name ); ( 1992 ) This 400-page book consists of clippings from major publications collected over a 15-year period which elucidate many details supporting the Gemstone File thesis.