Late Nigerian Dictator Looted Nearly $500 Million, Swiss Say
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ERN, Switzerland, Aug. 18 - Almost all of the nearly $500 million frozen in Swiss bank accounts connected with the late Nigerian dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was &quot;obviously of criminal origin&quot; and may be returned to the Nigerian ...
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Prosecutors look to seize up to Â£50m of assets from the disgraced media baron after his conviction.
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A retired police chief who bought a confiscated station wagon at a government auction discovered that its previous owner had left behind an expensive gift.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea -- Financiers in Europe and Africa were behind a plot to overthrow the government of Africa's number three oil producer, an accused ringleader testified yesterday at the opening of the continent's biggest mercenary trial in decades.
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Gunmen seized the 3-year-old son of a prominent Nigerian chief in restive southern Nigeria, police said Thursday.
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An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke.
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Zambian former president Frederick Chiluba must stand trial on charges of stealing almost half a million dollars from the southern African country while he was its leader, a court ruled on Friday.
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Switzerland has fined the owner of a Geneva-based oil trading firm 50,000 Swiss francs (&#36;39,500) for making an illegal bribe to secure Iraqi oil contracts during Saddam Hussein's regime, authorities said Thursday.
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Thieves steal Scotland's most important collection of antique coins, which has been valued at Â£500,000.
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The former county treasurer in this Lake Huron vacation community was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that he looted $186,500 in public funds for a Nigerian investment scam.
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The suspended governor of a Nigerian state is questioned in the UK over allegations of money laundering involving Â£1m.
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NEW YORK, May 30 (IPS) - Gone are the days when the scowling face of  dictator Mobutu Sese Seko gazed out from the face of Zaire's  paper currency, a denomination that inflation and corruption  eventually made so worthless it was issued in notes of 5 million.
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KPMG suggests 500 billion to one trillion dollars in laundered worldwide annually by drug deals, arms traffickers and other criminals.
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The son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was charged in a South African court of bankrolling a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea that led to the arrest of dozens of suspected mercenaries five months ago.
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Precious paintings worth over 100 million Swiss francs (46.6 million pounds) were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery on Sunday, police said on Monday, the second dramatic art theft in the area in recent days.
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Colombia said on Monday it had seized $400 million in property, including a Caribbean island, from a cocaine baron arrested in Brazil this month and is awaiting extradition to the United States on drug charges.
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Police reveal that almost Â£500,000 was stolen by armed robbers who held a County Down family hostage.