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LONDON, Friday (AFP)

Indonesia's former president Mohamed Suharto holds the dubious title of being the most corrupt world leader in recent history, a leading anti-corruption organisation said in a "top 10" of graft published Thursday.

Plundering a family fortune estimated at anything between 15 billion and 35 billion US dollars (12.4 to 29 billion euros) during his 32-year reign from 1967, Suharto was a clear winner, according to British-based Transparency International.

The group gave a corruption "top 10" for global political leaders over the past 20 years, released to coincide with the release of its annual Global Corruption Report, a round-up of government graft worldwide.

In second place was former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, deposed in 1986, who plundered between five and 10 billion dollars, Transparency International estimated.

Coming in third was late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who acquired around five billion dollars when he ruled Zaire - now the Democratic Republic of Congo - from 1965 to 1997, despite an average income per capita which even now is only 80 dollars per year.

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