One statutory declaration containing explosive claims; then a sodomy investigation whose contours are reminiscent of a decade-old trauma; then another statutory declaration - this one containing claims of even higher voltage, followed, barely 24 hours later, by a retraction accompanied by the disappearance of the declarer and his family.

Parts of a novel by John le Carre? No, just another day's happenings in a country where the line between sulfurous fact and surreal fiction is blurred, beyond all hope of retrieval perhaps.