Tahu nggak, Radja Harto itu pencuri ngetop di dunia. Mau dikasih menyan kek, pake dukun kek, MA lah itu lah sami mawon. Busuk is busuk. Harto is the most corrupt leader in this universe.
UN, World Bank Start Corruption Fight U.N., World Bank Unite to Fight Corruption Scourge in Developing World By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS Sep 17, 2007 (AP) The United Nations and the World Bank joined forces Monday to try to recover billions of dollars stolen from the coffers of developing countries every year by corrupt leaders and officials. The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative is aimed at giving teeth to provisions of the U.N. treaty to fight global corruption, which came into force in December 2005, calling for the return of illicit assets. "Many developing countries are hemorrhaging money desperately needed to try to support the attack against poverty," World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting at U.N. headquarters to launch the initiative. "By one estimate corrupt money flowing abroad from developing countries is estimated at $40 billion a year." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "the true cost of corruption far exceeds the value of the assets stolen" because in developing countries, the poor are deprived of health care, education, clean water, sanitation and paved roads. A report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said that assets stolen by corrupt leaders "are frequently of staggering magnitude." The report cited $15-35 billion allegedly embezzled by former Indonesian dictator Suharto between 1967-98, $5-10 billion by the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos between 1972-86, $5 billion by Congo's late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko from 1965-97, and $1 billion by the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic from 1989-2000. Zoellick noted that it took 18 years to recover just $620 million of Marcos' money, "and it will be many decades before it recovers from the devastating consequences of his actions." Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said that in "victim countries" the new initiative will focus "on making public assets safe" by creating independent anti-corruption agencies and ensuring high standards of integrity and financial disclosure among civil servants. He said that in rich countries where stolen funds are often invested, "financial institutions need to be aware that banking secrecy is no longer an obstacle to money laundering investigations." And he said "lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents need to be wary of being accomplices to sheltering stolen goods." Costa urged governments to act fast to try to recover stolen assets, saying experience shows that 10-15 years after the crime, "only about 10-15 percent of the loot is recovered." "No one pretends corruption will disappear in our lifetimes," he said. But the initiative "can limit its impact, make officials think twice before picking the public's pocket and, when this happens, return the loot." Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
