| 21. | The government has never cracked down on the illegal payments.
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| 22. | The international media made allegations of these illegal payments.
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| 23. | In 1998, the president of the Japanese parent company resigned over illegal payments to gangsters.
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| 24. | The investigating agency said influential officials abused their positions to help Quattrocchi receive illegal payments.
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| 25. | The Irving, Texas-based company, now ExxonMobil Corp ., has denied knowledge of any illegal payments.
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| 26. | Claes, who was economics minister at the time, has repeatedly denied accepting any illegal payments.
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| 27. | The committee calculated that illegal payments exceeding $ 30, 000 were made during the 1980s.
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| 28. | When the Agusta scandal broke last month, he first denied any knowledge of illegal payments.
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| 29. | Claes, who became NATO secretary general in 1994, initially denied any knowledge of illegal payments.
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| 30. | The theory that they made illegal payments and covered them up does not hold up.
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