Reuters: Yemen ex-president amassed up to $60 billion, colluded with rebels: U.N. experts
(Reuters) - Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, during his long rule, and colluding in a militia takeover last year, U.N.-appointed investigators have told the Security Council.
The report by the world body's Panel of Experts on Yemen echoes criticism by his opponents that Saleh's rule from 1978 to 2012 was marred by graft, and that even out of office he is fomenting instability - allegations he has consistently denied.
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So many politicians are on the take.
ReplyDeleteEven Nixon was on the take. I saw the film, which was dissected by body language experts. Nixon felt put upon because he took so little and he knew that most of hos colleagues took far more. But they were on the winning faction.
I expect politicians to be on the take. But you have to know you limit to paraphrase Clint Eastwood (A man has to know his limits).
Money is like matter. Get a lot of matter in one place and it warps space time. Get a lot $$$ in one place, especially stolen $$$, and it will warp an economy and a society.
Bad things happen then.
Mobutu Seko stole so much $$$, that the US government wanted as little to do with him as possible. They would not sell him military hardware. Nor would they let his regime now if any of the hardware had possible manufacturing defects. I saw the messages.
It is in the U.S. best interests to tell an ally, purported ally or anyone we are helping to lay off the freaking graft (or at least too much of it).
Barbarian Chiefs gave away most of the loot. They were still richer than anyone else, but they gave most of it away. It is one way they maintained their position. There is something to be learned in that.