Author: Cynthia Gabriel | Journal of Democracy

Cynthia Gabriel is founder of the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4), an anticorruption organization in Malaysia. In 2017, she was a recipient of the annual Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy.

January 2018, Volume 29, Issue 1

The Rise of Kleptocracy: Malaysia’s Missing Billions

Cynthia Gabriel

One of the world’s worst public-corruption scandals shows how a lax international financial system enables massive graft in developing countries.