Agency officials have admitted withholding vital information from the court in the trial of a bank executive for making illegal loans to Iraq.

A report by the state attorney general called the complex arrangement an illegal loan disguised as a legitimate energy transaction.

Two of the former executives pleaded guilty to charges that they had helped funnel illegal loans and credits to Iraq.

He is unlikely to benefit politically from an investigation of illegal loans by government banks during his tenure as Shanghai's top boss.

We had an arrangement: he gave me a hundred a month and I let him go on making his illegal loans.

You say he was a maker of illegal loans!

He has called the transaction an illegal loan.

The debts, however, were illegal loans, which Hector had made against the estate and which he would have to pay back.

Finance officials responded to the report by noting they had already detected the illegal loans the auditor identified.

The state attorney general has called the deal, engineered by aides and allies of the governor, an illegal loan.