Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the nation within the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021, is runner-up for the annual Person of the Year award for Corruption in 2021. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko tops the record of the ‘corrupt person of the year’ ready by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in recognition of all he has completed to propagate organised prison exercise and corruption, a press release stated.
“Ghani certainly deserves an award, too. He was breathtaking in both corruption and gross incompetence. He deserted his people, leaving them to misery and death so he could live among the corrupt former state officials in the moral cesspool that is the UAE,” stated OCCRP.
Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan amidst Talibani takeover of Kabul
Ghani attracted detrimental criticism from the world over after he fled from Afghanistan amidst an imminent takeover by the Taliban. He issued his first message after fleeing the nation on fifteenth August after the Taliban captured the capital Kabul. In a video message issued on Facebook, Ghani alleged that he was compelled to go away Afghanistan because the Taliban was planning to kill him, and denied experiences of taking enormous quantities of cash with him.
The former Afghanistan President stated that he needed to switch energy to the Taliban peacefully. But he was evicted towards his will, as he didn’t wish to grasp because the president of Afghanistan. He stated that he was compelled to go away Kabul because the Taliban was searching for him. He stated that he determined to not trigger bloodshed within the capital, and that’s why fled the nation to keep away from an enormous catastrophe.
Lukashenko, the one worthy contender for being essentially the most corrupt particular person of the year- OCCRP
Drew Sullivan, one of many co-founders of OCCRP and who appeared on the panel as a decide, stated that it has been a banner 12 months for corruption, however Lukashenko stood other than the group.
Besides Ghani and Lukashenko, different finalists included Syrian dictator Bashar Hafez al-Assad, Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
As per the OCCRP assertion, Assad led Syria right into a catastrophic civil warfare and robbed the nation of thousands and thousands of {dollars} whereas clinging to energy.
Erdogan, however, was presiding over a corrupt authorities that laundered Chinese funds for Iranian oil utilizing state-owned banks, the group stated.
Kurz, the chief of the Austrian People’s Party(OVP), together with 9 different politicians and media personalities, was embroiled in a case, with allegations of embezzlement and graft.
OCCRP stated Lukashenko consolidated limitless energy at residence and turned a blind eye to worldwide criticism. Instead, he precipitated the refugee disaster in response to EU sanctions towards his nation, the assertion stated. The group additional added that Lukashenko was detached to the sufferings of his personal residents and determined migrants, together with youngsters, shivering, hungry and barred from settling in Belarus.