" The fraudulent Polish elections, held on January 16, 1947, resulted in Poland's official transformation to communist state by 1949.

Many Polish exiles opposed this action, believing that this government was a façade for the establishment of Communist rule in Poland, a view that was later proven correct ; after losing an election which was later shown to have been fraudulent, Mikołajczyk left Poland again in 1947.

The renewal of civil war immediately after the elections, which were considered as fraudulent by UNITA, and the collapse of the Lusaka Protocol, created a split situation.

Vieira defeated Malam Bacai Sanha in a runoff-election, but Sanha refused initially to concede, claiming that the elections had been fraudulent in two constituencies, including the capital Bissau.

Foreign observers declared the elections fraudulent, and most of the elected opposition candidates refused to take their seats.

* 2008 – The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008

After Niyazov's death, deputy prime minister Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow was named acting president, and was elected president in his own right on 11 February 2007 in elections condemned by international observers as fraudulent.

However, these elections were considered fraudulent, especially on the part of the military dictatorship that virtually ruled El Salvador.

" The New York Times commented: " Latin America has witnessed many fraudulent elections throughout its history but none has been more outrageous than the one which has just taken place in Haiti.

It was a contest between French officials and their nationalist rivals — the results of primary elections were felt to be fraudulent by Syrians, many of whom boycotted the 26 October elections.

However, opposition to his rule only increased, especially after the 1985 elections which were declared to be fraudulent by the U. S. and other foreign observers.

Foreign observers declared the elections fraudulent and suggested that Jackson Doe of the Liberian Action Party should have been declared the victor, and most of the elected opposition candidates refused to take their seats.

However, Andrade's victory at the elections was fraudulent, causing the eruption of an armed movement led by General José Manuel " Mocho " Hernández, known as Queipa Revolution.

After other parties were permitted to organize, he was reelected in 1996 and 2002 with 98 per cent of the vote in elections condemned as fraudulent by international observers.

* The Catholic Bishops ' Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP ) issues a statement condemning the elections as fraudulent.

Several fraudulent elections were held over the matter.

Although his rule was seriously challenged by the events of the early 1990s, he ultimately consolidated power again and won multiparty presidential elections in 1993, 1998, and 2003 ; the opposition boycotted the 1993 election and denounced the 1998 and 2003 election results as fraudulent.

Dos Santos's opponent, Jonas Savimbi of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) party, claimed that the elections were fraudulent.

This bias also said to exist in foreign elections, giving favorable media coverage to fraudulent elections in allied countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala, while unfavorable coverage is given to legitimate elections in enemy countries such as Nicaragua.

These elections were widely seen as fraudulent, and this proved to be a major cause of the revolution which forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign and leave Tunisia.

With the presidential elections of 2001, in which opposition candidate Ravalomanana claimed that the official figures were fraudulent, the five AREMA provincial governors came out in support of Ratsiraka and even declared themselves independent from the republic.

Although the coalition to which the Ploughmen's Front belonged failed to win a majority in the Grand National Assembly, the communists arranged for a fraudulent count of the votes cast in the elections, thereby " confirming " Groza as premier, despite protests by the United States and the United Kingdom who held that, pursuant to the agreements reached at the Yalta Conference in 1945, only " interim governmental authorities broadly representative of the population ", should be supported by the major powers.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

As the only candidate, Thiệu was thus easily re-elected, receiving 94 % of the vote on an 87 % turn-out, a figure widely held to be fraudulent.

To sort out the legitimate deeds from the fraudulent deeds, a court was held on Gumlog Creek at the home of Warren Philpot.

Bank fraud is the use of fraudulent means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently representing to be a bank or financial institution.

Two days after the prize had been awarded, Post publisher Donald E. Graham held a press conference and admitted that the story was fraudulent.

: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

While Roy's historical work is largely ignored due to his unknowing reliance on a fraudulent source, his maps and drawings are untainted, and continue to be held in the highest regard.

The URD and PCT opposition denounced this election as fraudulent and refused to participate in the second round, in which the Presidential Tendency won an additional seven seats ; however, these results were cancelled and a second round revote was held in October 1993, in which the Presidential Tendency won only three of the 11 available seats.

Samuel Doe had led a coup d ' état that overthrew the elected government in 1980, and in 1985 held elections that were widely considered fraudulent.

Though he lived in an atmosphere of alchemy, he derided the notion of the alkahest or universal solvent, and denounced the deceptions of fraudulent people who pretended to effect the transmutation of metals ( this does not mean he did not believe in transmutation, though ; in his " Experimental Confirmation of Chymical Philosophy " alone he claims to have achieved at least three different transmutations ), he believed mercury to be a constituent of all metals and heavy minerals, though he held there was no proof of the presence of " sulphur comburens ".

Texas recognized the county in January 1889, with Miami as the county seat, but the election was declared fraudulent in December, and Parnell was chosen county seat instead.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

* On March 9, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit “ against registered investment adviser BMA Ventures, Inc. and its president, William Robert Kepler, 35, of Dallas, Texas, alleging that they illegally obtained approximately $ 1. 9 million in a fraudulent ‘ scalping ’ scheme from January 2004 through March 2005.

Under scrutiny by the Norwegian police for possible fraudulent behavior prior to the FAST acquisition by Microsoft, former founder and CEO John Lervik resigned from the wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary on 23 January 2009.

The Missouri Statesman of January 31, 1862, offered coverage of Shambaugh's speech to constituents in which he claimed that the legislative quorum was fraudulent, with at best only 39 House members and 10 members of the Senate present at either Neosho or Cassville, and that the names of affirmative voting members were deliberately excluded from both House and Senate journals.

In January 2009 he took the Central Bank of Ireland and Ernst & Young to task for their failings leading up to the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, In his capacity as Senator, Ross pressed Allied Irish Bank executives on the bank's fraudulent offshore dealings involving subsidiaries and Caribbean front operations, charging that the only party to be disciplined in the affair was the whistleblower who brought it to light and forcing from the bank's CEO Eugene Sheehy the admission that the institution may have been in breach of the Companies Act.

Claims that the MMR vaccine causes autism, promoted by Andrew Wakefield, were declared in January 2011 to be based on manipulated data and fraudulent research.

On January 7, 2004, he was convicted by a United States federal court on ten counts of willfully failing to collect and pay over employment taxes under, fifteen counts of knowingly making and presenting false, fictitious or fraudulent claims for refund of employment taxes under and, and four counts of willfully failing to timely file federal income tax returns under.

The Speaker of the council Jimmy Mohlala was murdered in January 2009 a shortly after he motivated that the council institute legal steps to cancel the Lefika design contract because of fraudulent tender documents.