AIDS money misused

From the NYTimes

JOHANNESBURG — The government of Zimbabwe, led by President Robert Mugabe, spent $7.3 million donated by an international organization to fight killer diseases on other things and has failed to honor requests to return the money, according to the organization’s inspector general....
Mr. Parsons said in an interview on Sunday that last year the Global Fund deposited $12.3 million in foreign currency into Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank. He declined to speculate on how the $7.3 million it was seeking to be returned had been spent, except to say it was not on the intended purpose. Civic groups and opposition officials maintain that the Reserve Bank helps finance Mr. Mugabe’s patronage machine....

actually, this is small stealing next to the latest from Nigeria, where 41 million dollars was diverted to whatever, or here in the Philippines, where the presidential election three years ago was funded by diverting a couple million dollars from the fertilizer fund for poor farmers....