Word: abacha
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...addition to reaping the benefits of a larger circulation, Adio was exposed to the risks of being a journalist under the military rule of General Sani Abacha...
Swiss banks will be ordered to return $535 million of embezzled money to Nigeria. The money was stashed in Switzerland by the African state's former military ruler, General Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has agreed to drop criminal proceedings against the family of the late dictator and allow them to retain $100 million of the estimated $3 billion that Abacha was alleged to have looted during his five-year rule. Nigeria will eventually recover more than $1 billion from banks around the world...
...Switzerland, for generations a watchword for banking secrecy, two years ago began to allow the financial curtains to be parted in investigation of possible criminal offenses. In two of the more recent high-profile cases, authorities investigated nearly $500 million deposited in 19 banks by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and an undisclosed sum frozen in nine bank accounts controlled by the Ivory Coast's former leader, Henri Konan Bedie. James Nason, a Swiss Bankers Association official, says that since a new money-laundering law went into effect in April 1998, the number of cases of suspected laundering being reported...
...presidential weekend is sort of a pat on the head for Nigeria, which Clinton spurned on his six-nation tour of Africa in March 1998. He simply flew over Nigeria to protest the brutal and corrupt military dictatorship run by Gen. Sani Abacha. Abacha died mysteriously in 1998, and last year Nigerians elected Obasanjo as their president. But Obasanjo, while hailed as the man who has brought a fragile democracy to Nigeria by Clinton and other western leaders, isn't viewed so favorably by his constituents, who continue to live a life of grinding poverty...
...nine, Carrington witnessed firsthand the civil strife in her native Nigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha...