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Britain Given Go-Ahead to Help Nigeria Trace Looted Treasury

HeadlineOct 19, 2001

The British High Court has given the government the go-ahead to help Nigeria trace more than a billion dollars allegedly looted by late dictator Sani Abacha. Nigeria is trying to recover more than $3 billion allegedly embezzled during General Abacha’s rule, which ended with his death in 1998.

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