{"id":2901,"date":"2014-06-20T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T02:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2014-06-20T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T02:23:45","slug":"liechtenstein-will-return-227m-to-nigeria-looted-by-sani-abacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/liechtenstein-will-return-227m-to-nigeria-looted-by-sani-abacha\/","title":{"rendered":"Liechtenstein will return $227m to Nigeria looted by Sani Abacha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liechtenstein will return $227m (167m euros; \u00a3133m) to Nigeria that was looted by the former military ruler Sani Abacha in the 1990s, the African nation’s finance ministry says.<\/p>\n

It was the culmination of a 16-year effort to retrieve the money, it added.<\/p>\n

To secure it, Nigeria agreed to drop a legal case tied to Abacha’s family.<\/p>\n

Abacha ruled Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998 and is thought to have siphoned billions of dollars into bank accounts across Europe.<\/p>\n

Transparency International says the dictator stole as much as $5bn during his five-year rule.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that Nigeria will on 25 June 2014 receive the sum of euros 167m ($227m) from the government of the principality of Liechtenstein, part of looted funds recovered from the Abacha family,” Nigeria’s finance ministry said in a statement…<\/p>\n

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Liechtenstein will return $227m (167m euros; \u00a3133m) to Nigeria that was looted by the former military ruler Sani Abacha in the 1990s, the African nation’s finance ministry says. It was the culmination of a 16-year effort to retrieve the money, it added. To secure it, Nigeria agreed to drop a legal case tied to Abacha’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,1216,1217,1214,257,4687,393,1215,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liechtenstein","tag-looted","tag-military-ruler-sani-abacha","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sani-abacha","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}