The corruption claims against her first brought by a rival politician in the in 1996 . She was charged a year later when seized assets including 28kg of gold,750 pairs of shoes and more than 10,000 saris in a raid on her home. Prosecutors said her assets, which reportedly included two 1,000-acre estates in the lush tropical state she ran, were vasstly disproportionate to her earnings during her first term as chief minister, which ran from 1991 to 1996. AFP