In fact, in 2004, the organization Transparency International, which is dedicated to fighting corruption, compiled a list of the previous decade’s most corrupt state leaders. Mohamed Suharto, who governed Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, apparently squirreled away between $15 and $35 billion. Behind him is Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, with $5 to $10 billion; Mobutu Sese Seko of the Republic of Zaire, with $5 billion; Sani Abacha, with $2 to $5 billion; Slobodan Milosevic, with $1 billion; and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti,
