At least nine other legislators are also named, and several are described as receiving payoffs.

Prosecutors also said informants had told them that other officers had also been receiving payoffs.

He promised that anyone found to have received payoffs would be punished.

A daily newspaper published what it said were transcripts of secret tape recordings in which two Congressmen discussed receiving payoffs.

Bolivian governments have been notoriously corrupt, and police officials today admit that many officers are still receiving payoffs.

This, the prosecutors said, is when he received payoffs that were required tributes to a mob boss.

In return he was supposed to have received payoffs and favours, a fact which he never contradicted.

The existence of secret bank accounts which he allegedly uses for receiving payoffs was also brought to the fore.

His second title reign was only supposed to last a year but each year Bruno received bigger payoffs to stay on.

"He was on a murderous drug gang's payroll, gave gang members inside information on investigations and received payoffs in return."