US senator says Azerbaijan was bribing European politicians

STEPANAKERT, OCTOBER 4, ARTSAKHPRESS: US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse noted about the aforesaid in his opening remarks at the Senate hearings on the fight against kleptocracy, pointing to Azerbaijan as an example of a kleptocratic state, reported the Voice of America Armenian Service.

In a kleptocratic state, its tyrant authorities plunder the people of the land.

According to Charles Davidson, Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative at Hudson Institute, a kleptocratic government attempts to spread its evil everywhere.

But he stressed that the West has a powerful tool for having an effect on kleptocrats, since dictators that rob their own people very often keep their resources and possessions in the West.