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The ban on running for office remains in effect while the pro-Chavez state comptroller-general investigates the politicians on corruption charges.
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Mr. López, once among the top contenders for the opposition's presidential nomination, was barred in 2005 from seeking public office through 2014 by Venezuela's comptroller-general for allegedly mishandling public funds and other corruption.
Human-Rights Court Backs Return of Chávez Foe Ezequiel Minaya 2011
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In a separate investigation, the U.S. comptroller-general concluded that the Reich-led agency had engaged in "prohibited covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public."
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M. Bertin, comptroller-general, and afterwards secretary of state, sent him back to China in 1763, after the abolition of the Jesuits.
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Roman citizens, it must be confessed that the first of the emperors, the master, the pacificator, the legislator of the then known world, should not be placed absolutely on a level with a clerk to a comptroller-general in Gaul.
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The physician Astruc, father-in-law of the comptroller-general Silhouette, in his book — now become very scarce — called “Conjectures on the Book of Genesis,” adds some objections, inexplicable undoubtedly to human learning, but not so to a humble and submissive piety.
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Law, and when he was comptroller-general, a man who was always in the right came to him one day and said:
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In an investigation in 1987 by the comptroller-general of the US he was found to have abused his office which had been engaged in “prohibited, covert propaganda activities… beyond the range of acceptable public information activities”.
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ABUJA - Nigeria's military government revamped the immigration service, retiring many of its senior officers including the comptroller-general, an official statement said.
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Budgell the place of accountant and comptroller-general of the revenue in
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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