Mr. Lukashenko rose quickly to prominence last year after he was appointed head of a parliamentary anti-corruption commission.

The history for setting up an anti-corruption commission in Fiji was earlier mooted by the Bavadra Government in 1987.

The Central Bank of Somalia was also re-established, and a national plan as well as an effective anti-corruption commission were put into place.

One sign of whether he is serious could be if a top oligarch like Boris Berezovsky faced a thorough investigative scrubbing by an independent prosecutor or anti-corruption commission.

Proponents of the new anti-corruption commission maintained that there would be no conflict between the two agencies, since the new body would investigate corruption within the Police Department.

Thailand's attempts to fight corruption became more tangled today when an official on the country's new anti-corruption commission admitted violating its financial disclosure rules and resigned.

He maintains that Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of the country's anti-corruption commission, made significant improvements while in office.

Nearly $1 billion in international aid has been frozen because the country failed to pass anti-corruption legislation and because Mr. Moi obstructed the work of anti-corruption commissions.

Koroma has given the country's anti-corruption commission more powers to investigate and prosecute corrupt officials.

It establishes an independent prosecuting authority, a peace and reconciliation commission and an anti-corruption commission.