They may characterize the transactions as the best-kept secret in the banking industry, and assert that, if asked, bank and regulatory officials would deny knowledge of such instruments.

The defendant did not deny knowledge of the existence of the camera or the possibility that his action could have been seen by people passing by.

The issue was categorically put on the global table in 2002; no one can deny knowledge, nor the huge time and money spent on meetings and papers.

Wile they deny knowledge, one of them inadvertently reveals the intendant's involvement.

But the president himself, who clearly was in favor of such actions, was not to be directly involved, so that he could deny knowledge of it.