Ah, Russia. Where the President receives a billion dollar mansion as a “gift” and one third of the defense procurement budget goes in the Defense Minister’s pocket, but lower officials are arrested for fraud.
That’s also China. Wen Jiabao is a well-known former premier of China. His mother, a novice at business even in her elderly years, somehow amassed a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Later, when Wen wrote a tribute for his recently deceased mother, the Chinese Communist Party censored it.