The financial sector, the authors allege, provides a system for a powerful local elite to systematically pilfer resources from world's most impoverished people.
The #Guptas, who have fled the country and have arrest warrants issued against them, were protected by Zuma, whose son Duduzane they employed and who was deeply involved in pilfering state resources.
If the lament of Indians is that political corruption pilfers public resources, then who are its chief beneficiaries?
Each country may have claims for war damages and for pilfering state coffers and resources like diamonds and timber, prosecutors have said.
It's the result of centuries of colonisation, decades of imperialism and the current corruption that has allowed a handful of people, in different ways at different times, to steal natural resources and pilfer public goods.
An octogenarian hunched slightly with age and wearing a white guayabera, he criticized pilfering and the misuse of resources.
Folks may be concerned about saving California's beloved redwoods, but what about all the natural resources that have been pilfered abroad (and people that have suffered) to support our lifestyles.
Under Putin's leadership, watchdog groups say, he and his oligarchs have pilfered an estimated $24 billion from state resources.
However, this literature is largely unavailable from libraries in Tajikistan because they have been pilfered after the collapse of the Soviet Union and there are limited resources to rebuild collections resulting from economic decline.
Despite the emphasis on security breaches on the Internet, most identity-theft cases start offline: a stolen wallet, pilfered garbage or a breached personnel file at a company's human resources office.
