"Clearly all the players who participated in the corrupt schemes have not been brought to justice."

"We cannot exclude that there were corrupt schemes between criminal businesses and officials in the previous government," he said.

The heroes in the story, aided by an enigmatic historian, are mostly trying to salvage their corrupt economic schemes.

The Radical Republican reforms and corrupt schemes initiated by Governor Scott after he assumed office in 1868 infuriated the white population of the state.

The complaint said: "During President Obiang's more than 30-year rule members of the inner circle have amassed extraordinary wealth through a variety of corrupt schemes."

Edmund Wilson, on the other hand, showed little patience with the "gibbering crew" surrounding Nanda with their vaguely corrupt schemes.

There was a chance this year that these corrupt schemes would be ended by administrative action.

In recently concluded House hearings on the subject, Republicans said the couple had been the beneficiaries of a corrupt scheme run by Arkansas insiders at taxpayers' expense.

Carbon traders hope to make billions from corrupt schemes based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2.

But the amount attributable to the corrupt scheme may be small, tax lawyers say.