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Posted: 5/24/2013 11:47:46 AM EST
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian goes to court for his corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 24, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. President Raul Castro has repeatedly spoken of a need to root out entrenched corruption on this Communist-run island, and his anti-graft drive has swept up foreign business executives from at least five nations, as well as government officials and dozens of Cuban employees at key state-run companies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 5/24/2013 11:47:46 AM EST
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian goes to court for his corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 24, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. President Raul Castro has repeatedly spoken of a need to root out entrenched corruption on this Communist-run island, and his anti-graft drive has swept up foreign business executives from at least five nations, as well as government officials and dozens of Cuban employees at key state-run companies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 5/23/2013 12:03:46 PM EST
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian, center, goes to court for the start of a corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. The anti-graft drive has swept up a number of foreign business executives and Cuban officials at major state-run companies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 5/23/2013 12:03:46 PM EST
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian, center, goes to court for the start of a corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. The anti-graft drive has swept up a number of foreign business executives and Cuban officials at major state-run companies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 5/21/2013 10:50:49 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials, from left, Luis Artiga, Teresa Jacobo, George Cole, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello appear for a city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday, May 21, 2013, they intend to retry five former Bell city officials already convicted of misappropriating public funds by collecting exorbitant salaries. Artiga was acquitted; the other four plus George Mirabal, not shown, were convicted in March, but jurors deadlocked on a handful of counts against each of them. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Francine Orr, Pool, File)
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Posted: 5/21/2013 10:50:49 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials, from left, Luis Artiga, Teresa Jacobo, George Cole, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello appear for a city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday, May 21, 2013, they intend to retry five former Bell city officials already convicted of misappropriating public funds by collecting exorbitant salaries. Artiga was acquitted; the other four plus George Mirabal, not shown, were convicted in March, but jurors deadlocked on a handful of counts against each of them. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Francine Orr, Pool, File)
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Posted: 5/21/2013 11:14:15 AM EST
Georgia's former Prime Minister Ivane "Vano" Merabishvili arrives for questioning at a regional prosecutor's office in Kutaisi, some 250 km (155 miles) west of Tbilisi May 21, 2013. Georgian prosecutors arrested Merabishvili over corruption and embezzlement charges on Tuesday in the latest of a string of legal cases brought against members of the ousted administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili. REUTERS/Mamuka Kakauridze
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Posted: 5/21/2013 11:14:15 AM EST
Georgia's former Prime Minister Ivane "Vano" Merabishvili arrives for questioning at a regional prosecutor's office in Kutaisi, some 250 km (155 miles) west of Tbilisi May 21, 2013. Georgian prosecutors arrested Merabishvili over corruption and embezzlement charges on Tuesday in the latest of a string of legal cases brought against members of the ousted administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili. REUTERS/Mamuka Kakauridze
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former president Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the gorvenrment has been tainted by corruption scandals.(AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former president Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the gorvenrment has been tainted by corruption scandals.(AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE : in this photo taken Tuesday De. 18 2012 a child passes a souvenir stand selling garments with some bearing portraits of former president Nelson Mandela, left, in the tourist hub of Soweto, South Africa where Mandela once lived. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the government has been tainted by corruption scandals. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE : in this photo taken Tuesday De. 18 2012 a child passes a souvenir stand selling garments with some bearing portraits of former president Nelson Mandela, left, in the tourist hub of Soweto, South Africa where Mandela once lived. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the government has been tainted by corruption scandals. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, shake hands at a joint press conference about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, shake hands at a joint press conference about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks at a joint press conference with OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks at a joint press conference with OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, speaks at a joint press conference with OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, right, about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, speaks at a joint press conference with OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, right, about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Santos at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, right, talks to the media during a joint press conference about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 2:38:45 PM EST
OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, right, talks to the media during a joint press conference about a regional study on the illicit drug trade, presented by Insulza to Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 17, 2013. The $2.2 million study which emphasizes drug abuse as primarily a public health issue, makes no firm recommendations, instead suggesting several possible ways to stem the illicit drug trade, which has fueled violent crime and corruption and even destabilized governments. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
