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 Alemán - President of Nicaragua (1997–2002) - 100 million
10.Joseph Estrada - President of the Philippines (1998–2001) - 78 to 80 million
Did they say Abacha only stole $2-5 billion? I thought it was about $40billion.
This list was compiled by transparency international in 2004.
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