Political corruption: Facts

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the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?
the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord (pictured) is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog?
Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell, with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
Queens Borough President Joseph Bermel fled the country an hour after promising to return to a grand jury corruption inquiry?

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Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies?
José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657?
as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world?
the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden?
under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?

85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers?
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez?
Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico?
Cuban economist Felipe Pazos was ordered to be executed by Raúl Castro in 1959, but was ultimately spared and allowed to leave the country?
Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco"?
Cuban poet Cintio Vitier published his first book of poetry in 1938, at the age of seventeen?
Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution?
Hurricane Michelle (pictured), a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?

famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?
by the early 1900s, famine, civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?
more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78?
somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons?

Kumaran Pathmanadan, former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol, CIA and MI-5?
Operation Show Me How was a major Interpol narcotics bust concerning the transporting of heroin within the covers of the children's book Show-Me-How-I-Can-Paint?
according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?
members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing?

famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?

John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?
Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes?
during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?

age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships?
Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea?
Song Du-yul, a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany, was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam, the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il?
On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2004?
Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?
according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
among Korean regional cuisine, the luxurious style of Kaesong cuisine of North Korea is frequently compared with those of Seoul and Jeolla cuisines of South Korea?
diplomat Ted Lipman, the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea, is married to Chinese singer Dadawa?
in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970?