The Top Ten: World's Ten Most Corrupt Leaders

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World's Ten Most Corrupt Leaders

	Name	Position	Estimates of funds allegedly embezzled (in U.S. $)
1.	Mohamed Suharto	President of Indonesia (1967–1998)	$15 to 35 billion
2.	Ferdinand Marcos	President of the Philippines (1972–1986)	5 to 10 billion
3.	Mobutu Sese Seko	President of Zaire (1965–1997)	5 billion
4.	Sani Abacha	President of Nigeria (1993–1998)	2 to 5 billion
5.	Slobodan Milosevic	President of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1989–2000)	1 billion
6.	Jean-Claude Duvalier	President of Haiti (1971–1986)	300 to 800 million
7.	Alberto Fujimori	President of Peru (1990–2000)	600 million
8.	Pavlo Lazarenko	Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996–1997)	114 to 200 million
9.	Arnoldo Alem�n	President of Nicaragua (1997–2002)	100 million
10.	Joseph Estrada	President of the Philippines (1998–2001)	78 to 80 million

1. Defined as former political leaders who have been accused of embezzling the most funds from their countries over the past two decades.
2. All sums are estimates of alleged embezzlement.

Source: Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2004. Web: www.transparency.org/pressreleases_archive/2004/2004.03.25.gcr_relaunch.html.