According to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, deadbeat diplomats have accrued about $8.5 million in debts to U.S. banks, landlords, hospitals, hotels, utility companies and merchants, while using their diplomatic immunity to avoid payment. The report noted: "Some missions have not paid rent for two years or more. A number of residential landlords have either lost their property or were at risk of losing it because diplomatic tenants, who could not be evicted, would neither pay their rent nor leave their property."

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