{"id":181234,"date":"2024-09-24T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-court-authorises-businessman-tortured-by-sss-to-seize-21m-from-nigerias-jp-morgan-account\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:49:10","slug":"nigeria-us-court-authorises-businessman-tortured-by-sss-to-seize-21m-from-nigerias-jp-morgan-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-court-authorises-businessman-tortured-by-sss-to-seize-21m-from-nigerias-jp-morgan-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: US Court Authorises Businessman Tortured By SSS to Seize $21m From Nigeria&#8217;s Jp Morgan Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>U.S. District Court Southern District of New York gave Nigerian businessman Louis Emovbira Williams the go-ahead to withdraw $21 million from Nigeria&#8217;s bank account with JP Morgan, used to stash funds from crude oil sales to foreign entities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Justice Liman Lewis, in August, denied Nigeria&#8217;s motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Mr Williams, who was scammed over a food importation business deal that cost him millions of dollars in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Not only was Mr Williams swindled of $6.5 million, he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409240681.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court Southern District of New York gave Nigerian businessman Louis Emovbira Williams the go-ahead to withdraw $21 million from Nigeria&#8217;s bank account with JP Morgan, used to stash funds from crude oil sales to foreign entities. Justice Liman Lewis, in August, denied Nigeria&#8217;s motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Mr Williams, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[15513,4313,258,256,33083,18594,6185,18413,257,4687,393,5761,7568,254,11036,12291],"class_list":["post-181234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-21m","tag-account","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorises","tag-businessman","tag-court","tag-morgan","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-seize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sss","tag-tortured"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}