This is primarily more than enough to turn a good yet average and common politician into a corrupt individual that is ever ready to bask in the life of ‘white-collar’ crime.
TOP 10 most corrupt politicians in the world 2020.
Here are top 10 of the world’s most corrupt politicians as of 2020. Ex-prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif top the list with corruption of round about $30 billion. Followed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister of India, Narendra Modi.
10. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson (Prime Minister of Iceland)
The youngest prime minister of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson also ranked amongst the world’s most corrupt politicians. Although he is rtired from his seat following the release of the Panama Papers in 2016.
9. Petro Poroshenko ( President of Ukraine)
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko is the current President of Ukraine. Spoted at ninth place on our list of 10 most corrupt politicians in the world 2018. He is known as the destroyer of Ukraine economy. According to Ukraine Accountability Bearue, he looted more than $3 billion.
8. Kim Jong UN (President of North Korea)
The president of North Korea, Kim Jong UN comes at No. 8 position among corrupt politicians for many reasons.
7. David Cameron ( Former Prime Minister of UK)
The Ex-Prime Minister of United Kingdom also labeled as the world’s most corrupt politician. David Cameron, although belong to the richest family, but has some allegations of corruption and establish an offshore company.
6. Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (King of U.A.E)
The President of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is at No. 5 amongst world’s most corrupt politicians. According to Panama Papers, he made around $150 billion assets from the misuse of the treasury.
5. Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)
Narendra Modi comes at No. 5 in the list of most corrupt politicians. After Nawaz Shareef, Putin and King Salman, he is the 4th most corrupt Prime Minister in the world.
4. Asif Ali Zardari (Former President of Pakistan)
Known as an intelligent, clever and highly corrupt politician in history of Pakistan. He was at TOP position in corruption ranking but following the release of the Panama Papers, Nawaz Sharif replaced him. In addition, he is one of the richest people of Pakistan. Zardari has many allegations of corruption and misuse of powers including the charge of murder of Benazir Bhutto among many others.
3. Salman bin Abdulaziz (King of Saudi Arabia)
The Saudi royal statesman and politician Salman bin Abdulaziz named third most corrupt politician in the world. He has been King of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and head of the House of Saud.
2. Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)
The second most corrupt politician in the world 2018 is Putin. Interesting! the world’s most powerful man also known as the most corrupt. Vladimir Putin, who was three time elected Prime minister of Russia, currently he is the president of Russia since 2012. Throughout his career, he has enjoyed high domestic approval ratings and received extensive international attention as one of the world’s most powerful leaders.
1. Nawaz Sharif (Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan)
The Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif ranked as world’s most corrupt politician right now. Nawaz Shrif, the three time elected prime minister of Pakistan is also one of the richest people of Pakistan. His publicly disclosed net worth is around ₨150 billion (US$1.4 billion). He and his family own many real estate properties, steel mills, factories, rice mills, flour mills and sugar mills all over the country and abroad.
Recently, he was disqualified against worst corruption charges by the supreme court of Pakistan. He was at the heart of the Panama Papers leak. And, declared the most corrupt man in history of Pakistan politics.
According to Panama Papers, Nawaz Sharif and his family done a high level of corruption with $418 million. Since 1985, when he became the Chief Minister of Punjab, until 2017, he looted Pakistani assets brutally. He along with his family made assets of around $30 billion with this corruption money. The family owns many well-established businesses around the world.
TOP 10 most corrupt politicians in the world of all time.
In this fast paced world, there are many corrupt individuals who are notoriously famous for their illegal and unlawful deeds at the cost of state taxes and other funds that don’t belong to them. Situations of this nature has spread throughout the world and isn’t uncommon in most cases. Below are 10 of the most corrupt politicians of the world. You may already have prior knowledge of some of them, however it’s time to bring to light about these politicians darkness that they have been shadowing in for the duration of their seats in their cheated positions until being exposed and de-badged of their statuses.
10. Joseph Estrada
Former President of the Philippines
At the very beginning, before he has been officially elected as president, he used the art of manipulation to create a “land of make believe” by using the poverty circumstances of the majority of the Philippines against them in order to aid in his campaign and manifesto which obviously helped in his election process as he somehow predicted that , it’s the only way to gain the respect and voting favor of the lower class first so that the higher society members could recognize him as being a true president that is there to genuinely improve the well-being of the people starting from the lowest to the highest in society. To his shame, there was obviously an ulterior motive behind his charade that he managed to put on as his won the votes and has been elected as president of the Philippines in those years.
Joseph now counted among the most corrupt politicians of the world, had started off as an Actor in his early life and no wonder he was able to pull this off successfully in deceiving the people who genuinely believed and saw a ray of hope in him. He has been corrupt since before he even became president, and sadly the Philippines were too vulnerable to see it. Estrada has been accused and brought to books and is believed to have taken more than $80 Million in bribes and corrupt dealings.
9. Arnoldo Aleman
Former President of Nicaragua
Being the 81st President of any country should be a huge honor to every Man, regardless of how many Presidents were before you, the ‘President’ title simply means, head of the Nation, Leader of an entire country, World recognition, being an official part of a country’s history etc. However some people seem to not realize the novelty, importance, honor and integrity of their Presidential titles and tend to abuse the privileges handed to them by the state. Presidents are under oath too, however for some people like Arnoldo, all this doesn’t mean as much as having all of the world’s rich’s that exceeds his pay which was bound to spark and arouse suspicions.
Aleman has pursued the career of being a Lawyer before presidency and that alone should tell you that his Oath and promise to the law, the country, should have been stronger than ever. We may give credit to his personal success as a lawyer, then running for Mayor of Nicaragua and then President and then one of the most corrupt politicians ever! Quite an outstanding and successful career development in politics and business too and the perfect way to be sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for corruption by the embezzlement of more than $100 Million from Nicaragua’s Treasury.
8. Pavlo Lazarenko
Former Prime minister of Ukraine
The common pattern amongst each of these corrupt organisations or individuals is that each one sets a trend that goes higher than the last corrupted individual. It’s strangely almost like a competition of who can steal the most amount of money or be the nations most corrupted politicians. It is rather amazing and stupid as well, what some individuals would to do gain a place in the history of the world but for the wrong reasons.
Pavlo on the other hand seems to have done extremely well in his illegal and unlawful acts during the duration of his time as just a mere PM (Prime Minister), not even the President in this case. Still regardless of being the Prime Minister, it was in Pavlo’s plan to use the President as a shield or to divert all attention from him, so that he could continue to go on his quest for fraudulent activities that are to the estimated corruption value of $200 Million which seems to have mysteriously disappeared and later revealed that part of it has been used to sign a$10 billion dollar deal abusing Office rights and terms.
Most definitely creates a big Title on the forehead of Pavlo to have been one of the most corrupt politicians of the world to have been able to sneak a value of $200 Million under the carpet or out of the visibility of authorities concerned.
7. Alberto Fujimori
Former President of Peru
A funny name this man has, but a clever mindset, cleverer than all his other corrupt pals thus far as the amount estimated in his corruption ranking value is rather staggering. Corrupt Presidents among the most corrupt politicians, isn’t an uncommon thing in this case ,it’s just that some of them are a little bit more intelligent in their corruption parades that they were able to milk more out of the state, than the rest before they’ve been brought to legal justice. Alberto Fujimori is of an Asian descent which primarily means disciplined, sharp witted, and intelligent as well as mentally sharp since they have that Asian blood which is known to the world for their attention to detail type of style in everything they say and do which ensures order and precision in most cases.
In the Case of Alberto Fujimori however and his corruption In Presidency has gotten over his ‘head’ of the Nation accolade. It doesn’t mean that if a man is dressed with sharp suits, speaks in polite speech mannerisms and carries himself out with professionalism in the public eye, that he won’t be capable of corruption to some hectic degrees, kidnapping and murder As well as guilty by court of law in his act of ordering death squad Military men to do the dirty work of kidnappings and killings during his presidency and with an estimated fraud value of $600 Million stolen from the state.
6. Jean-Claude Duvalier
Former President of Haiti
We all know that action star, Jean – Claude Van Damme has been the bad boy dominating the Action Genre of Hollywood since the 80’s and there was only one of him. Jean – Claude Duvalier on the other hand, obviously tried to imitate this actor in reality due to his first name being the same, and very humorously couldn’t come close it seems.
Some people in power have seem to be waving the flag of a common trend that having “President” title simply means “I own everything and everybody In a country” and this is where abuse of power gets to best of their morality and beliefs and basically everything else changes once somebody comes into full power and control, it wouldn’t be very long until their power is taken to head where everything is now swindled by their intimidating and authority figure finger. Duvalier is one of the most corrupt politicians ever.
Everything seems to point in the direction of corruption from here onwards.” Like father, like son” they say and seems as though Papa Duvalier, the father of Jean – Claude Duvalier has been terrorizing Haiti for more than a decade to which the name struck fear In the locals. A man that claimed to bring about an economical revolution to Haiti’s starving population, felt nothing to embezzle between $300 – 800 Million during his time in office. Surely one of the most corrupt politicians of the world.
5. Sani Abacha
Former President of Nigeria
Nigeria as it stands to the world is automatically classed as a war torn country and quite frankly, who could blame the world for thinking so lowly of them when civil war seems to be so popular, the locals are somewhat getting better at it. War torn countries, require a leader that can turn an entire nation around, command in operations of war and actually win at it to protect the name and people of a country. Not every leader appointed and elected into Presidency or parliament or a high profiled position in a country sees for the actual needs of the people and meets demands of what needs to be changed urgently for the better of those protesting legally for it.
There will always be a need of self-improvement , personal greed while the rest will suffer dearly and that ultimately becomes the major downfall of every country thereafter where as bad as things are as it is, will become worse after a man so called ‘leader’ like Sani Achaba who is often regarded as one of the most corrupt politicians, could steal around $4 Billion into personal private accounts as well as Jewelry to the value that could supply a 100 years salary to the average Nigerian. Which was ‘attempted’ to be stolen from his residence by robbers that police have discovered and ironically though after the immediate shock of his death, his wife tried to flee with 4 suitcases of stolen money also.
This is where hilariously, the robber gets robbed and that too, by his own wife. Its more of a comical act of fraudulence rather than a clever one. Mr. Achaba earns himself the title of one of the funniest corrupt politicians that the world has seen.
4. Slobodan Milosevic
Former President of Yugoslavia
In terms of fraud, one could ask oneself, what is the limit that somebody could reach in terms of the amount of money they could take from the country without being caught and for how long can they pull this off? There must be a certain genius behind this as it isn’t as easy as mugging a homeless man on the street of his last Penny to steal from something as large as an entire Country. Mr. Milosevic however has gone beyond just money fraud in this case and has been convicted according to BBC’s report of some high profiled killings and being the head behind assassination attacks, killing of witnesses or people who were brave enough to bring him to justice. Plus he’s also one of the most corrupt politicians on our planet.
Power driven men, know no extremes in terms of where they Power boundaries are when in office or in Presidency as they sincerely believe that they control and own everything that the country has, including the people, where human rights and constitutions are just pieces of paper with fancy writing on it since none of these seem to genuinely matter when they are committing fraudulent acts themselves and in this case, not in small petty numbers as this one really reached the extreme fraud bars. $100 Billion shelled out to compensate for campaign bombings that took place and causing collateral damage to this estimated worth and figure is no joke and certainly not a child’s game.
Presidents are supposed to bring about peace in their countries and not inflict war with others. All this by the handy work of one man and his accomplices, Slobodan Milosevic who even notoriously earned himself a Street named after him.
3. Mobutu Sese Seko
Former President of Zaire
From this point on, the story of fraudulent acts become interlinked with each below this rank, as it seems that the next 2 rankings below Mobutu Sese Seko has been interlinked and confirmed as accomplishes that were involved in what is estimated to be a $50 Billion 3 Man scorn from all 3 of the Countries that these men represent such as: Zaire, Philippines and Indonesia. This is actually the sum equal to the yearly budget of the West.
How the 3 men managed to pull this off is somewhat of a mystery, let the other two remain a mystery for now. Mobutu Sese Seko is ranked among the most corrupt politicians in the world and part of the 3 man tag team cross country in their reign of ‘joint -venture’ power-man fraud commitments and dedication, has personally been reported to embezzle an estimated amount of around 12 Billion by himself. These figures certainly don’t lie and isn’t exaggerated either.
2. Ferdinand Marcos
Former President of the Philippines
As part of the three Musketeers and why we call them ‘Marketeers’ is due to their ability to put on a reputable and accountable appearance to their public of being respectable Leaders of the country until that mask comes out and the Robbers are revealed, its not inappropriate to call them “masked robbers” either.
And with this Mask they sure did create a Phantom of their very own Opera (dramatic play). Yes! You’ve guessed it. Ferdinand Marcos (Former President of the Philippines) is Mystery man 2 in the 3 man joint venture of billions to be estimated amongst each other with regards to their fraudulent acts. It seems as though the Philippines, sure knows how to elect their Presidents, only to shoot themselves in the foot, not once but on two very unwise choices of Presidents.
Making the same mistake twice is considered as insanity, but then again, who are they to know whose going to rob the entire nation until it happens. Ferdinand Marcos has been reported to have stolen $5 – 10 Billion of his own as well during the years 1972 – 1986 In his time of Presidency. He came second in our list of most corrupt politicians in the planet.
1. Mohamed Suharto
Former President of Indonesia
Mystery Man that Ranks number 1 on the list of the most corrupt politicians in the world is Mohamed Suharto seeing as because his managed to top the cake with a shiny looking cherry of being able to take more than his joint venture pals (Mobutu & Ferdinand), ‘M & F’. The value that he is worth in the estimated value of notorious Presidential Fraud, it actually deserves a Campaign or Game show of its own where the winner of who can embezzle the most out of a country wins and Mohamed Suharto seemed to have won it big during his 30 Year Presidential duration of Office in the Country’s highest seat.
During this time of Presidency, it would have obviously given Mr. Suharto more than enough time to take a few billions for himself and to absolutely no surprise did he surpass the fraudulent amount of the rest reaching a staggering figure of $15 – $35 Billion in stone cold hard assets and Swiss accounts that were ‘perfectly legal’ in terms of its existence, but yet again, where money talks, the corrupt ears will listen very closely and so it has been pulled off.
What makes Mohamed Suharto Thee most corrupt politician of the world isn’t just because of his fraudulent rank rate being the highest in personal embezzlement but due to managing to put up a decent, honest and upstanding Leader of the nation for 30 years. A man that long in Presidency can be accused even without evidence for fabricating votes every now and then or banking hard on Campaigns to make the greatest impression every year to the vulnerable people who were just forced to believe it.
