Imran Khan Named Most Corrupt Politician In The World

Top Ten Most Corrupt Politicians In The World [REPORT]

1. Imran Khan The Prime Minister Of Pakistan: Named Most Corrupt Politician In The World. Politicians, especially those holding a public office, are supposed to serve their country and their people. But many politicians use their political power for illegitimate private gains – at the expense of taxpayers, of course. According to a list of ten most corrupt prime ministers compiled by Fox News Point, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan is the most corrupt prime minister in the world in 2019.

2. Narendra Modi: The prime minister of India

The second most corrupt prime minister in 2017 was India’s Narendra Modi. Though Modi claims to have cracked down on corruption, Fox News Point says he had taken money in the past from rich businessmen for his election campaigns. According to the publication, Modi took money from industrial conglomerates Birla Group and Sahara Group while serving as the chief minister of Gujarat.

3. Russia’s Vladimir Putin:

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ranked third. According to some estimates, Putin has a net worth of more than $200 billion. That’s more than the combined worth of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He has amassed his wealth through illicit means. Putin holds stakes in oil fields, natural gas companies, and other assets. Despite all the corruption, he still enjoys a high approval rating in Russia.

4. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe

Shinzo’s approval ratings fell considerably in 2017 as he has been accused of serving his personal friends rather than the party. Not too long ago, he was considered invincible. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had even changed its rules to allow Abe to seek the third consecutive term as the chief of the party. Following two school corruption scandals, his approval rating has plunged to just 26%, the lowest since 2012.

5. Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

Medvedev is the current prime minister of Russia. He also served as the third president of the country between 2008 and 2012. He is a close aide of Vladimir Putin, and has been described as the “most hated man in Russia” by Foreign Policy. Medvedev was allegedly involved in multiple corruption scandals. He owns a mountain villa, a vineyard in Italy, and two luxury yachts among other things. The Russian prime minister has allegedly profited from a “complex business network” that concealed bribes by using charity foundations and offshore schemes.

6. Former British prime minister David Cameron

His name just had to be there in the list of the world’s most corrupt prime ministers. Around the same time Cameron was calling other countries “fantastically corrupt,” his name appeared in the leaked Panama papers. David Cameron has even officially admitted that he has profited from offshore entities. He and his wife have also held shares in a tax haven fund in the past.

7. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea

Mbasogo has been the president of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. In 2003, a state-run radio channel declared him the “god” of the country with “all power over men and things.” Besides corruption, the Equatorial Guinea dictator has been accused of mass killings, kidnappings, and impunity. According to Forbes, his net worth is $600 million. About a decade ago, he told his countrymen that he had to take full control of the national treasury to prevent government employees from indulging in corrupt practices. Soon after taking control, he transferred more than $500 million to his personal bank accounts in the US.

8. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson of Iceland

Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson’s name gained international attention after the Panama Papers leak. Following revelations that he had funneled money to offshore accounts, he resigned as the prime minister of Iceland in April 2016. For some reason, Fox News Point still named him among the most corrupt prime ministers of 2017.

9. Kim Jong-Un

Yeah, I’m talking about the tiny little North Korean dictator who somehow has learned how to nuke the United States. When you control everything from the Internet to radio to television to newspaper to factories to nuclear sites, no one can dare to call you corrupt. At least not in your country. Even if a North Korean citizen combines the words “corrupt” and “Kim Jong-Un”, they are going to be shot dead. The Panama Papers revealed that North Korea was selling arms through a British firm. According to an estimate, Kim John-Un’s net worth is $5 billion.

10. Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine

Poroshenko is the least corrupt political leader in the list. Poroshenko has made the anti-corruption institutions toothless. A few months ago, Ukrainian citizens carried out massive protests across the country, calling for impeachment of Petro Poroshenko. Instead of fighting against corruption, Poroshenko himself was allegedly involved in corruption scandals.

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Indonesia - The Wide Worlds Snaps

President: Joko Widodo (2014)

Land area: 699,548 sq mi (1,811,831 sq km); total area: 741,096 sq mi (1,919,440 sq km)

Population (2014 est.): 253,609,643 (growth rate: 0.95%); birth rate: 17.04/1000; infant mortality rate: 25.16/1000; life expectancy: 72.17

Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Jakarta, 9.769 million

Other large cities: Surabaya 2.787 million; Bandung 2.429 million; Medan 2.118 million; Semarang 1.573 million; Palembang 1.455 million

Monetary unit: Rupiah

Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia consisting of 17,000 islands (6,000 inhabited) and straddling the equator. The largest islands are Sumatra, Java (the most populous), Bali, Kalimantan (Indonesia's part of Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), the Nusa Tenggara islands, the Moluccas Islands, and Irian Jaya (also called West Papua), the western part of New Guinea. Its neighbor to the north is Malaysia and to the east is Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia, part of the “ring of fire,” has the largest number of active volcanoes in the world. Earthquakes are frequent. Wallace's line, a zoological demarcation between Asian and Australian flora and fauna, divides Indonesia.

The 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia were home to a diversity of cultures and indigenous beliefs when the islands came under the influence of Hindu priests and traders in the first and second centuries A.D. Muslim invasions began in the 13th century, and most of the archipelago had converted to Islam by the 15th century. Portuguese traders arrived early in the next century but were ousted by the Dutch around 1595. The Dutch United East India Company established posts on the island of Java, in an effort to control the spice trade.

After Napoléon subjugated the Netherlands in 1811, the British seized the islands but returned them to the Dutch in 1816. In 1922, Indonesia was made an integral part of the Dutch kingdom. During World War II, Japan seized the islands. Tokyo was primarily interested in Indonesia's oil, which was vital to the war effort, and tolerated fledgling nationalists such as Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta. After Japan's surrender, Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed Indonesian independence on Aug. 17, 1945. Allied troops, mostly British Indian forces, fought nationalist militias to reassert the prewar status quo until the arrival of Dutch troops.

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Cambodia - The Wide Worlds Snaps

King: Norodom Sihamoni (2004)

Prime Minister: Hun Sen (1998)

Land area: 68,154 sq mi (176,519 sq km); total area: 69,900 sq mi (181,040 sq km)

Population (2014 est.): 15,458,332 (growth rate: 1.63%); birth rate: 24.4/1000; infant mortality rate: 51.36/1000; life expectancy: 63.78

Capital and largest city (2011 est.):Phnom Penh, 1.55 million

Monetary unit: Riel

Situated on the Indochinese peninsula, Cambodia is bordered by Thailand and Laos on the north and Vietnam on the east and south. The Gulf of Thailand is off the western coast. The size of Missouri, the country consists chiefly of a large alluvial plain ringed by mountains with the Mekong River to the east. The plain is centered around Lake Tonle Sap, which is a natural storage basin of the Mekong.

The area that is present-day Cambodia came under Khmer rule about 600, when the region was at the center of a vast empire that stretched over most of Southeast Asia. Under the Khmers, who were Hindus, a magnificent temple complex was constructed at Angkor. Buddhism was introduced in the 12th century during the rule of Jayavaram VII. However, the kingdom, then known as Kambuja, fell into decline after Jayavaram's reign and was nearly annihilated by Thai and Vietnamese invaders. Kambuja's power steadily diminished until 1863, when France colonized the region, joining Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into a single protectorate known as French Indochina.

The French quickly usurped all but ceremonial powers from the monarch, Norodom. When he died in 1904, the French passed over his sons and handed the throne to his brother, Sisowath. Sisowath and his son ruled until 1941, when Norodom Sihanouk was elevated to power. Sihanouk's coronation, along with the Japanese occupation during the war, worked to reinforce a sentiment among Cambodians that the region should be free from outside control. After World War II, Cambodians sought independence, but France was reluctant to part with its colony. Cambodia was granted independence within the French Union in 1949. But the French-Indochinese War provided an opportunity for Sihanouk to gain full military control of the country. He abdicated in 1955 in favor of his parents, remaining head of the government, and when his father died in 1960, Sihanouk became chief of state without returning to the throne. In 1963, he sought a guarantee of Cambodia's neutrality from all parties in the Vietnam War.

However, North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops had begun using eastern Cambodia as a safe haven from which to launch attacks into South Vietnam, making it increasingly difficult to stay out of the war. An indigenous Communist guerrilla movement known as the Khmer Rouge also began to put pressure on the government in Phnom Penh. On March 18, 1970, while Sihanouk was abroad, anti-Vietnamese riots broke out and Sihanouk was overthrown by Gen. Lon Nol. The Vietnam peace agreement of 1973 stipulated withdrawal of foreign forces from Cambodia, but fighting continued between Hanoi-backed insurgents and U.S.-supplied government troops.

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Burma (Myanmar) - The Wide Worlds Snaps

President: Lt. Gen. Thein Sein (2011)

Vice President: Vice President Sai Mouk Kham (2011)

Land area: 253,954 sq mi (657,741 sq km); total area: 261,969 q mi (678,500 sq km)

Population (2014 est.): 55,746,253 (growth rate: 1.03%); birth rate: 19.11/1000; infant mortality rate: 47.74/1000; life expectancy: 65.24; density per sq km: 72

Capital and largest city (2011 est.):Rangoon, 4.457 million

Other large cities: Mandalay, 1.063 million; Nay Pyi Taw 1.06 million

Monetary unit: Kyat

Slightly smaller than Texas, Myanmar occupies the Thailand/Cambodia portion of the Indochinese peninsula. India lies to the northwest and China to the northeast. Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand are also neighbors. The Bay of Bengal touches the southwest coast. The fertile delta of the Irrawaddy River in the south contains a network of interconnecting canals and nine principal river mouths.

The ethnic origins of modern Myanmar (known historically as Burma) are a mixture of Indo-Aryans, who began pushing into the area around 700 B.C. , and the Mongolian invaders under Kublai Khan who penetrated the region in the 13th century. Anawrahta (1044–1077) was the first great unifier of Myanmar.

In 1612, the British East India Company sent agents to Burma, but the Burmese doggedly resisted efforts of British, Dutch, and Portuguese traders to establish posts along the Bay of Bengal. Through the Anglo-Burmese War in 1824–1826 and two subsequent wars, the British East India Company expanded to the whole of Burma. By 1886, Burma was annexed to India, then became a separate colony in 1937.

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Grenada - The Wide Worlds Snaps

Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Governor-General: Rodney Williams (2014)
Prime Minister: Gaston Browne (2014)
Total area: 170 sq mi (440 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 91,295 (growth rate: 1.25%); birth rate: 15.94/1000; infant mortality rate: 13.29/1000; life expectancy: 76.12
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): St. John's, 27,000
Other large cities: English Harbour, 2,900; Codrington (capital of Barbuda), est. pop. 870

Monetary unit: East Caribbean dollar
The Arawak Indians were the first to inhabit Grenada, but they were all eventually massacred by the Carib Indians. When Columbus arrived in 1498, he encountered the Caribs, who continued to rule over the island for another 150 years. The French gained control of the island in 1672 and held on to it until 1762, when the British invaded. Black slaves were granted freedom in 1833. After more than 200 years of British rule, most recently as part of the West Indies Associated States, Grenada became independent on Feb. 7, 1974, with Eric M. Gairy as prime minister.

In 1979, the Marxist New Jewel Movement staged a coup, and its leader, Maurice Bishop, became prime minister. Bishop, a protégé of Cuba's President Castro, was killed in a military coup on Oct. 19, 1983.

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Antigua and Barbuda - The Wide Worlds Snaps

Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Governor-General: Rodney Williams (2014)
Prime Minister: Gaston Browne (2014)
Total area: 170 sq mi (440 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 91,295 (growth rate: 1.25%); birth rate: 15.94/1000; infant mortality rate: 13.29/1000; life expectancy: 76.12
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): St. John's, 27,000
Other large cities: English Harbour, 2,900; Codrington (capital of Barbuda), est. pop. 870
Monetary unit: East Caribbean dollar

The island of Antigua was explored by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and named for the Church of Santa Maria de la Antigua in Seville. Antigua was colonized by Britain in 1632; Barbuda was first colonized in 1678. Antigua and Barbuda joined the West Indies Federation in 1958. With the breakup of the federation, it became one of the West Indies Associated States in 1967, self-governing its internal affairs. Full independence was granted Nov. 1, 1981.

The Bird family has controlled the islands since Vere C. Bird founded the Antigua Labor Party in the mid-1940s. While tourism and financial services have turned the country into one of the more prosperous in the Caribbean, law enforcement officials have charged that Antigua and Barbuda is a major center of money laundering, drug trafficking, and arms smuggling. Several scandals tainted the Bird family, especially the 1995 conviction of Prime Minister Lester Bird's brother, Ivor, for cocaine smuggling. In 2000, Antigua and 35 other offshore banking centers agreed to reforms to prevent money laundering.

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