The Rogue Gallery of Kleptocrats

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Schweizer Illustrierte (Swiss Illustrated), 11 November 1991

Schweizer Illustrierte's issue of 11 November, 1991 exposed 14 Third World politicians who, it said, had stashed their booty in Swiss banks. The title of the expose in German read "Fluchgelder - Die Schweizer Konten der Dictatoren", meaning in English, "Curse of money: The Swiss bank accounts of the Dictators".

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the gallery of dictators with massive swiss bank accounts as of 1991:

1.  Ferdinand (and Imelda) Marcos, PHILIPPINES, 1965-1986 (in the lead story?)

2.  Idi Amin, UGANDA, 1971-1979

3.  Anastasio Somoza, NICARAGUA, 1967-1972, 1974-1979

4.  Jean-Claude Duvalier, HAITI, 1971-1986

5.  Manuel Noriega, PANAMA, 1983-1989

6.  Mobutu Sese Seko, ZAIRE, 1965-1997

7.  Nicolae (and Elena) CeauÈ™escu, ROMANIA, 1967-1989

8.  Haile Selassie I, ETHIOPIA, 1916-1974

9.  Abu Nidal (Sabri Khalil al-Banna), PALESTINIAN FATAH, 1974-2002

10. Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, SUDAN, 1969â€"1985

11. Suharto, INDONESIA, 1967â€"1998

12. Saddam Hussein, IRAQ, 1979-2003

13. Jean-Bédel Bokassa, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, 1966â€"1979

14. Rajiv Gandhi, INDIA, 1984-1989

15. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, IRAN, 1941-1979

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13 years later, in 2004...

WORLD'S TEN MOST CORRUPT LEADERS*

(Name, Position, Funds embezzled**)                                                    

1. Mohamed Suharto, President of Indonesia (1967â€"1998), $15â€"35 billion

2. Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (1972â€"1986), 5â€"10 billion

3. Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965â€"1997), 5 billion

4. Sani Abacha,   President of Nigeria (1993â€"1998), 2â€"5 billion

5. Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1989â€"2000), 1 billion

6. Jean-Claude Duvalier, President of Haiti (1971â€"1986), 300â€"800 million

7. Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru (1990â€"2000), 600 million

8. Pavlo Lazarenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996â€"1997), 114â€"200 million

9. Arnoldo Alemán, President of Nicaragua (1997â€"2002), 100 million

10. Joseph Estrada, President of the Philippines (1998â€"2001), 78â€"80 million


*Defined as former political leaders who have been accused of embezzling the most funds from their countries over the past two decades.
**All sums are estimates of alleged embezzlement and appear in U.S. dollars.
Source: Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2004.

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