But it doesn't look as if the former US secretary of state paid too much attention to the lyrics, or he might have discovered that the Nigerian hit is a celebration of that country's most infamous export, advance-fee email fraud (sometimes called 419 fraud, after the relevant section of the Nigerian penal code).
Adjusted for tax fraud, Thailand's export growth in 1995 probably was about 12%, instead of 24%.
"We have seen problems of fraud with imports, exports and transit of sugar.
Its initial pretext was to protest against alleged fraud in oil-export accounts, but its ambitions have widened.
After widespread doubts, including warnings by American military officials who never used ADE 651s, Britain finally banned the devices' export and arrested the manufacturer for fraud.
The fraud is thus picked up in exports (because the exporter is reclaiming the tax) but not in imports (because the importer does not account for the tax).
One was a death penalty case, three others involved international fraud and another was an arms export control violation.
Beyond financial crimes, deferred agreements have been used in lieu of prosecuting companies — though not individuals — for export control violations, obscenity violations, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, kickbacks and environmental violations.
Better off out: The UK would save billions in membership fees, and end the "hidden tariff" paid by UK taxpayers when goods are exported to the EU, caused by red tape, waste, fraud and other factors.
Proposed: end individual income taxes, tax financial transactions, have high-end consumer taxes; reduce estate tax; tax currency transactions heavily; end corporate fraud (different books for IRS and stockholders, income-export tax fraud).
