Check any list of the world's richest people and you probably won't find any mention of Saddam Hussein. Now those lists will have to be revised. Iraq's dictator controls a personal fortune worth at least $10 billion, according to investigators who say he skimmed that colossal amount from his country's oil revenues and created an army of front companies to put it in banks and investments around the world. Such unprecedented thievery would dwarf the more than $200 million that authorities in the Philippines say former President Ferdinand Marcos looted from that nation's treasury. With so much at stake, governments around...
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