Ukraine has Europe's second-highest HIV rate, with 230,000 Ukrainians infected with the virus, yet in 2012 and 2013 more than a fifth of the budget for anti-retrovirals was embezzled through rigged auctions.
Allegations that he has embezzled huge amounts of American aid need to be investigated.
The mystery is perhaps not the 43% that was embezzled, but the millions in central-government funds that were left on the table by a local administrative machinery too apathetic even to steal with much conviction.According to Sushil Modi, Bihar's deputy chief minister, the biggest problem for all the poorer states is "the crisis of implementation".
The disgruntled could punish a leader they considered unfair with a "fine" of 400 shillings, but exacting the punishment was not free: the citizen had to pay 100 shillings to do so.As loss-aversion theory predicts, embezzled tax provoked greater anger than stolen aid.
Two years ago, China cracked down on cross-border gambling appealing to neighbouring countries to close down casinos, banning travel agents from offering gambling tours, restricting foreign visits by officials after one official allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars of government funds and gambled the money away at the casino in Rajin-Sonbong.
Then, in 1871, a fire in Chicago and the ensuing stockmarket collapse undid him: Yerkes was found to have embezzled funds that he was holding for the city of Philadelphia.
The vetting procedure may have been compromised too; those asked to remove warlords from the list found their phones buzzing with death threats.In July a UN report concluded that transitional leaders embezzled seven out of every ten dollars they received.
Reports of funds embezzled and assets spirited away are still frequent but the government has been setting a fair example.
Another top official in the rail ministry was later dismissed for corruption, and state auditors said millions had been embezzled from the high-speed network.That story has some echoes in Brazil, where an orgy of ministerial sackings has been in full swing.
But the local union branch is currently in disarray after accusations that union officials embezzled as much as $5m.The White House is also determined to shake up the city's schools.
One of Congo's vice-presidents, a Tutsi, threatened to quit government and take up arms to defend Tutsis.See articleSwitzerland decided to hand back to Nigeria $500m allegedly embezzled by the late dictator Sani Abacha and stashed in Swiss accounts.
