- Kleptocracy is most common in developing countries and collapsing nations whose economies are reliant on the trade of natural resources.
- Kleptocracy is the “rule by thieves” or a “government by people who use their power to steal their country’s resources” (Oxford Dictionaries).
- Europe’s Lengthy Struggle to Confront Kleptocracy. The Loopholes in an Incomplete Banking Union Pan-European Money Laundering: The ABLV Case.
- Kleptocracy, the subject of this article, is the highest form of corruption where the beneficiaries are those in power.
- — John Prendergast, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2024 Russia is becoming a kleptocracy, with Putin cannibalizing the entire productive economy to fund his whims.
- Often funded with the proceeds of kleptocracy, election interference through covert political financing has become the bailiwick of Kremlin-directed oligarchs.
- Kleptocracy and fragile states. Source: Sarah Chayes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014. Kleptocracy and political instability (1/2).
- Kleptocracy, also known as thievocracy, refers to a form of government where leaders use their power to confiscate citizens’ property for their advantage.
- Kleptocracy, in politics, a form of government by individuals who primarily seek personal gain at the expense of those they govern.
- What is a Kleptocracy? President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (left) is considered one of the most corrupt leaders of the 20th century.
