Thursday, January 3, 2013

And the winner for Most Corrupt Person of 2012 is …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project named Aliyev based on the president’s “secret ownership stakes in banks, construction firms, gold mines, and telecommunications firms.”

Paul Radu, OCCRP's executive director, said, "We identified hidden companies that were owned by the first family of Azerbaijan in Panama, for instance, or in the Czech Republic. And we identified assets that they owned back in Azerbaijan via these companies."

Honorable mentions for Most Corrupt Person included “alleged Kosovo-born cigarette and drugs smuggler Naser Kelmendi, Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, Russian President Vladimir Putin, politically connected Serbian entrepreneur Miroslav Miskovic, longtime Uzbek President Islam Karimov, and wanted Serbian drugs smuggler Darko Saric.”

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66350

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