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African Minister Drives Bugatti Over G-20: Celestine Bohlen

May 27, 2009

Bloomberg

When the playboy son of Equatorial Guinea’s president-despot bought a $35 million house in Malibu, California, in 2006, his neighbors, who included actor Mel Gibson and singer Britney Spears, barely blinked.

They should have taken a closer look. And leaders in Washington and other capitals must do more than that if they want to stop the world’s ruling kleptocrats from stashing loose cash in their countries.

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