kleptocracy

A state where bribery has become a way of life is a kleptocracy.

Today, his regime amounts to a kleptocracy with no interest in reform.

He may face criminal charges over killings and kleptocracy under his watch.

In the kleptocracy model, state officials expand their personal wealth at the expense of the population.

He presides over a kleptocracy that is destroying the country.

The Soviet Union had been a vast kleptocracy for years.

And foreigners will be more wary than ever of doing business with the kleptocracy that is the modern Russian state.

This has led in recent years to claims of kleptocracy against the 'royal' family and land claim disputes.

The political commentator issues a call to action against what he sees as a modern-day American "kleptocracy."

"It's really about the shameless behaviour of the kleptocracy."

Our region's kleptocracy is responsible for this social calamity.

Demands for a "second independence" from kleptocracy and political infighting in the capital grew.

For the greater connantion that literally means "rule by thieves", see Kleptocracy.

It was the “hogra,” or contempt, of the dictator’s kleptocracy that would cyber-galvanize an Arab people.

Its former dictator, Suharto, set new standards for kleptocracy.

“Now I am concerned that we are quickly heading back to being a kleptocracy.”

In Russia it has been replaced by kleptocracy.

America's Department of Justice even has a "kleptocracy" unit.

On board the kleptocracy tour bus in February.

Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good.

Here Myanmar has transitioned from a kleptocracy to a free-for-all.

The term kleptocracy was also used to refer to the Russian economy soon after the Soviet collapse in 1991.

River steamers ran until the 1980s, when the kleptocracy of Mobutu crippled the country.

They have just learned about the excesses of the kleptocracy that ruled from elaborate villas.

It is in thrall to a kleptocracy unable or unwilling to separate the national interest from personal gain.