From the rockiest bottom, growth, albeit alongside much crookery, was the most rapid of all the ex-communist countries.

ECONOMIST: Albania

The firm may well have been shot through with financial crookery.

ECONOMIST: Japan after livedoor

There's been a certain amount of electoral crookery in the boundaries of the constituencies and the electoral roll and I think we shall have to wait and see what happens.

BBC: News Online

The main thing for the Czechs now is to end the political instability of the past year and the government-linked crookery that has disfigured and hobbled reform without letting reform itself lose momentum.

ECONOMIST: Is a Czech era ending?