“Nigeria is awaiting receipt from Swiss Govt. of $320 million, identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under Abacha” – Buhari @NGR President, 5:09 PM – 27 APR 2016 When Twitter-addicted Nigerians stumbled on this posting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle last week, the whole Internet went abuzz, with most people expressing their dismay at... Read More

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January 7, 2013

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Abacha’s son, Abba, still on criminal trial in Switzerland – Swiss ambassador

by Akan Ido Switzerland is battling hard to shake-off the image of the go-to country hiding looted funds. Several dictators, including Nigeria’s former president, Sani Abacha laundered public funds into Swiss vaults during their tenure in government. In this Punch Newspapers interview, Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Hans Rudolf Hodel, talked about the ongoing trial... Read More

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November 20, 2012

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£1.4 billion fraud: Kweku Adoboli convicted of biggest ever bank fraud

A rogue trader from east London who lost £1.4 billion in bad deals which nearly brought down a major international bank has been found guilty of fraud. At one point during his run of losses, rising star City trader Kweku Adoboli, 32, stood to run up losses of 12 billion US dollars (£7.5 billion) for... Read More

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