The region's tow-truck industry, governed by lax rules, has also been taken over by organised crime groups.

He was not required to disclose hospitality worth significantly more because of the relatively lax rules on commissioners' conduct.

Some reported many such contracts, and strikingly lax rules on how to ensure transparent governance.

Or lax rules, which allowed them to be so vague about their main homes?

One in ten cosmetic surgery clinics vanishes within months of advertising its operations, according to an alarming study that highlights the lax rules protecting patients.

All the vaccines in the scandal were available only through the private market, exposing its lax standards and corruption.

You can have one place that has lax standards; everyone then moves there and blows the place up.

In the next six months we'll see far fewer lax standards being applied - and part of it will be how you look: shirt pressed, hair done, nails manicured.

It was not the first fine for lax standards.

Rebel checkpoints are notoriously lax, and the former leader still has deep pockets.

Although, the parliament's rules are notoriously lax, they do say 'members of parliament shall refrain from accepting any ... gift or benefit in the performance of their duties'.

The county had a notoriously lax law enforcement environment which represented a sharp contrast with neighboring counties.