to have had no reason to doubt her crooked boyfriend over several intimate years, she is yet to explain why she also had no reason to doubt the bone fides or authority of Ralph Blewitt, his crooked front man. A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected bribes from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Police are investigating a string of top Australian horse-racing figures, including champion jockey Danny Nikolic (pictured), for alleged race fixing in what is shaping as the biggest corruption scandal to hit the sport in decades.