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.
Not exact matches
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).
Icelanders for their part feel that the EU has treated them as a financial colony while backing a neoliberal
kleptocracy preying
on an increasingly indebted population.
On the other, there is authoritarian
kleptocracy, as represented by Moscow.
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.
But there is a need for a party more radical than Labour, a party that says no to war and no to wasting billions
on new nuclear weapons or nuclear reactors, that dares to talk of the greed of the rich, of boardroom
kleptocracy and the duty of top earners to shoulder a fairer share.
Under Trump's new
kleptocracy, we need, more than ever, to be pragmatic and determined to push back at a government hell - bent
on taking away from the socially marginalized and vulnerable their few state - subsidized safety nets and educational opportunities.
There is now a team in DOJ dedicated entirely to «
kleptocracy», which focuses
on the US assets of corrupt foreign government officials.