Tag: Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative

Wanted by U.S.: The stolen millions of despots and crooked elites

The United States’ Kleptocracy initiative is aimed at holding foreign government officials to account and preventing them from using the U.S. as a haven for money looted from their own countries. Although solid wins are rare, tying up a corrupt foreign leader’s money in the courts is seen as a victory, writes Leslie Wayne for The New York Times.