In addition, The last three directors of the IMF have all been the targets of legal action, with two – including current director Christine LaGarde – having been found guilty of corruption. Rodrigo Rato, IMF director from 2004 to 2007, was recently convicted for fraud and will spend four years in prison.

13. Halliburton

Though it gained notoriety for its “reconstruction” efforts after the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s, Halliburton’s crimes reach far beyond the Middle East. Halliburton is one of the largest providers of products and services to the fossil fuel industry but a considerable amount of their corporate profits come from civil and military projects, particularly for overseas U.S. operations. Most recently, Halliburton made headlines after it pled guilty to destruction of evidence regarding its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (B.P.) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Halliburton’s connections to the U.S. military has protected it from prosecution, despite its numerous crimes. For instance, from 1992 to 2000, Halliburton forced thousands of villagers in Burma to work on its pipelines and related infrastructure, often without pay. They lost their homes due to forced relocation and were raped, tortured and killed by soldiers hired by companies as security guards for the pipelines. No one at Halliburton was ever punished for this practice.