Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

There will be huge scandals because there is too much money washing around …. And we don’t know who’s behind it.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

The hanky-panky in public service that really matters is about money and not sex.

Corruption in the kingdom is so great that not more than 10 percent of the taxes collected ever reach the treasury.

We have decriminalized Wall Street malfeasance.

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

With commerce comes fraud.

Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised.

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.