New Delhi: Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Gani has been named among the most corrupt officials of the year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). designated as one. OCCRP is a non-profit investigative news reporting platform featuring independent media outlets around the world. According to an ANI report, apart from Ashraf Ghani, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko tops the list.
ANI reported that, as per the OCCRP report, the others on the list include Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The OCCRP said that Ghani deserved it as he allegedly left the people of his country to suffer misery and death. OCCRP co-founder Drew Sullivan, who served as a judge on the panel, said that Ashraf Ghani deserves such an award because of his corruption and incompetence.
They pointed out, Ghani deserves it both for his corruption and his blatant incompetence. He abandoned his people, leaving them to misery and death so that he could live in the UAE with morally corrupt former officials. Lukashenko was chosen as Person of the Year by a panel of six journalists and scholars who studied and reported on corruption. This included Ravana Daman, director-general of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
Also included are Will Fitzgibbon, senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Boyeong Lim, a senior editor at the Pulitzer Center, Lewis Shelley, an author and endowed professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, award-winning and cross-border Investigative journalists, Paul Radu, co-founder and director of OCCRP, and Drew Sullivan were involved.
According to the OCCRP report, 67-year-old Lukashenko has been clinging to power in Minsk since 1993, allegedly rigging elections, torturing critics, and harassing protesters. Arrest and get them killed. Assad has reportedly driven Syria into a devastating civil war and siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars while clinging to power.
Erdogan oversees a corrupt government that has laundered Chinese money for Iranian oil using state-owned banks. Kurz was the leader of the Austrian People’s Party, which, along with nine other politicians and newspapers, was accused of embezzlement and bribery.
