World Leaders Facing Criminal Charges News

World Leaders Charged and Jailed: A Look Beyond Trump's Indictment.

Donald Trump is the first sitting or former US president to face criminal charges, but he is not the only world leader to do so. Other leaders who have faced criminal charges include Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Christian Wulff of Germany, Moshe Katsav, Ehud Olmert, and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Muhyiddin Yassin and Najib Razak of Malaysia, Jacob Zuma of South Africa, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye of South Korea, and Imran Khan of Pakistan. Charges range from corruption and bribery to rape and other sexual offenses.