  Benford's law states that in data sets from different phenomena leading
digits tend to be distributed logarithmically such that the numbers beginning
with smaller digits occur more often than those with larger ones. Particularly,
the law is known to hold for different types of financial data. The Illicit
Financial Flows (IFFs) exiting the developing countries are frequently
discussed as hidden resources which could have been otherwise properly utilized
for their development. We investigate here the distribution of the leading
digits in the recent data on estimates of IFFs to look for the existence of a
pattern as predicted by Benford's law and establish that the frequency of
occurrence of the leading digits in these estimates does closely follow the
law.
