Name: 【TED】Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players (Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players)
Uploaded: 2016-05-23T10:05:42.000Z
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there are typical types of individuals that spring to mind.

he was the all-powerful leader of Turkmenistan,

a Central Asian country rich in natural gas.

Now, he really loved to issue presidential decrees.

of a 40-foot-high gold-plated statue of himself

which stood proudly in the capital's central square

the African dictator or minister or official.

So his daddy is president for life of Equatorial Guinea,

billions of dollars of oil since the 1990s

and yet has a truly appalling human rights record.

despite an income per capita that's on a par

a $30 million mansion in Malibu, California.

I can tell you it's a magnificent spread.

He bought an €18 million art collection

that used to belong to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent,

Until recently, he was earning an official monthly salary

Well, he was the former oil minister of Nigeria

and it just so happens he's a convicted money launderer too.

So it's easy to think that corruption happens

and individuals up to no good in countries

that we, personally, may know very little about

and unaffected by what might be going on.

was investigating the illegal trade in African ivory.

And that's how my relationship with corruption really began.

In 1993, with two friends who were colleagues,

we set up an organization called Global Witness.

Our first campaign was investigating the role

of illegal logging in funding the war in Cambodia.

and I'm in Angola undercover investigating blood diamonds.

who were struggling to survive on the streets

and war orphans living in sewers under the streets,

who gossiped about shopping trips to Brazil and Portugal.

So I'm sitting in a hot and very stuffy hotel room

Because I'd been speaking to lots of people there

who, well, they talked about a different problem:

that of a massive web of corruption on a global scale

and millions of oil dollars going missing.

And for what was then a very small organization

trying to even begin to think how we might tackle that

and we've all been campaigning and investigating,

I've repeatedly seen that what makes corruption

well it isn't just greed or the misuse of power

or that nebulous phrase "weak governance."

but corruption, it's made possible by the actions

So let's go back to some of those people I talked about earlier.

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【TED】Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players (Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players)

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