no huge surprise.
the world bank has had its share of corruption and scandal:
http://lugar.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=221484
this according to Richard Lugar, a republican senator that sits lots of important-sounding committees.
god's honest truth, whoever heads the world bank will still basically be seen by the industrialized nations as a helping hand to the developing world, and be seen by that developing world as a mechanism that guards against that debt ever being paid off.