Sentences with phrase «in kleptocracies»

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In his meeting with his international counterparts, Mnuchin said, «we discussed how to achieve our shared objectives of restoring Venezuelan democracy, combating the kleptocracy of the Maduro regime, and responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by Maduro's economic policy.»

The inquiry is being run by the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Initiative, which has seized properties in the United States owned by relatives of politicians from Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Korea and Taiwan.

The 1MDB case has become a signature campaign in the global effort by prosecutors to crack down on kleptocracy and the relative ease with which the superwealthy move their money beyond the oversight of government authorities.

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

Last Friday, Sept., he was joined by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke singing in unison an advertising jingle for America's new kleptocracy...

Banks and all forms of businesses are ostensible to check the SDN list to safeguard they do not yield financial services to people, organizations, and governments which the U.S. has designated as «blocked» due to impasse in terrorism, chief proliferation, kleptocracy, tellurian rights violations, and other crimes.

Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy — which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.

The International Olympic Committee, which is trying to effacer its own image as a cynical kleptocracy, is airing a silent television commercial in Africa, Asia and Europe to remind people what the Games are supposed to be about: athletes performing at the highest level.

If the norm that «corruption is bad» can be institutionalised in Romania, officials will be less likely to take bribes and the state will be less likely to fall into Russian - style kleptocracy.

We tend to call them kleptocracies as the entire economy is bent in their interests.

In this connection, we congratulate the US government on launching a Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which was spearheaded by the US Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering.

Neighborhood watch: an honest man fights the power in Russia's post-Soviet kleptocracy in Yuri Bykov's emphatic tale

In Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

However I'm not so sure the prediction of getting a major position in a UN global kleptocracy is going to work out for Kevin.

There is now a team in DOJ dedicated entirely to «kleptocracy», which focuses on the US assets of corrupt foreign government officials.

The latest attraction in London is the Kleptocracy Tour, organized by anti-corruption groups.