kleptocrat
Americannoun
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Last month, the daughter of Angola's former president was described by the UK government as a "notorious kleptocrat" and slapped with an asset freeze and travel ban for allegedly siphoning wealth out of oil-rich Angola.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024
There were also attempts to remove the terms "dictator" and "kleptocrat" describing the elder Marcos on Wikipedia, said Carlos Nazareno, of the Wiki Society of the Philippines, part of a movement against disinformation.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
The dictator and kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos won the presidential election as a Nationalist Party candidate in 1965.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
Mr. Saleh was a kleptocrat and a consummate survivor in a very complicated country with treacherous politics.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2017
As Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College in North Carolina has written*, the last thing a kleptocrat needs is good judges, or robust ministries that could be power bases for rival robber barons.
From Economist ● Mar. 17, 2011
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