Still, Sean felt that the charity ball was an elaborate cover-up for something far more sinister going down.

It may well be that, rather than engaging in an elaborate cover-up, Hague simply didn't realise that Ashcroft had wriggled out (again) of paying his fair share.

Indeed, the charges focused less on the trade than on an elaborate cover-up that prosecutors say came afterward.

They'll find out what really happened to Tesserax, and why such an elaborate cover-up was done.

But the fact is, I could have removed it by laser or done a more elaborate cover-up.

Errors of Findings Cited Officers say it was hard to believe that Admiral Kelso had masterminded an elaborate cover-up.

In the United States, prosecutors viewed the actions surrounding Daiwa as plain and simple fraud compounded by an elaborate cover-up.

Bell goes on to suggest that the suspicious circumstances surrounding Monroe's death are very possibly the result of an elaborate cover-up for what was, essentially, a tragic medical mistake.

An alternative theory claims that all of K-129 was recovered and that the official account was an "elaborate cover-up".

Federal prosecutors viewed the case as a fraud, plain and simple, compounded by an elaborate cover-up in which the Japanese Government may have been an accomplice in recent months.