Swiss authorities convict Abacha’s son, seize $350m assets (Page 2)

Date: 25-11-2009 8:26 am (15 years ago) | Author: Daniel Bosai
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- nicefranky at 26-11-2009 10:46 PM (15 years ago)
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What can nigerians do 2 our leaders 4 christ sake. they are robbing us dry
Posted: at 26-11-2009 10:46 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- derbi at 28-11-2009 01:36 AM (15 years ago)
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mmmm our money Sad
Posted: at 28-11-2009 01:36 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- herdeysohjy at 28-11-2009 01:52 PM (15 years ago)
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9ja, we are not seeing the effect of all this money
Posted: at 28-11-2009 01:52 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- blings_is_back at 28-11-2009 03:01 PM (15 years ago)
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not my business
Posted: at 28-11-2009 03:01 PM (15 years ago) | Hero
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- kbyxcogitate at 28-11-2009 05:09 PM (15 years ago)
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Na wa ooo.....anyway this are all bragging. after the recovering of the money what do they use it for?....atleast is not bad enough if nigeria can offer a monthly salary for the youth and does who are citizen of this country who doesnt have money to eat nor do they have Job to fetch them food on their table......na wa oooo. this country is completely phyuked up. this is our right and our right has been denied. $700million today, $3billion tomorrow..come to think of it..what is the population of nigeria self? the 700million is enough to do something .....if ghana should see this type of money in their government account they will make use of it very well now in their present state. phyuk phyuk phyuk phyuk phyuk N.I.G.E.R.I.A i will never be proud to be a nigeria at no condition. asswhole country
Posted: at 28-11-2009 05:09 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Sheenor at 29-11-2009 01:26 AM (15 years ago)
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so wetin dey happen now??

Posted: at 29-11-2009 01:26 AM (15 years ago) | Hero
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- dammykool at 29-11-2009 03:20 AM (15 years ago)
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So what eventually happened to the money recovered. Some other will surely embezzle them again   
Posted: at 29-11-2009 03:20 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- meckky at 29-11-2009 05:47 AM (15 years ago)
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this is where we come In  all youth  of nigeria ,  let ask our self where is this money . wut are they useing this money for ,  to me insterd of asking for Yar dua to die ask of this money ,   live thos that are doing buy and salen alone and kiddnap any top ranking goverment officia  kill then if u like maybe some will run away  and live niger for us  seen they all have america and british  >:( citizin,  passport
Posted: at 29-11-2009 05:47 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- simplydayo123 at 29-11-2009 11:34 AM (15 years ago)
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Quote from: nametalkam on 25-11-2009 08:26 AM
Swiss authorities yesterday convicted Abba, one of the sons of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, for graft and ordered $350 million worth of assets to be seized from him.

"The first order of the sentence issued yesterday by the examining magistrate found that Abba Abacha, born November 9, 1968, son of the late General Sani Abacha, was guilty of participation in a criminal organisation," Geneva Canton's justice office said in a statement.

It said the examining magistrate sentenced Abba to a suspended jail term and ordered the confiscation of his assets worth $350 million “which is held by his criminal organisation and seized through international assistance in Luxembourg and the Bahamas.”

Agency reports say the court was not immediately available for comment on the duration of Abba’s suspended jail sentence.

In yesterday's statement, the Swiss authorities also said they had convicted a financial intermediary who is currently domiciled in the Principality of Monaco, for having been part of the “criminal organisation” run by the Abacha clan.

The person, who was not named, has been sentenced to pay an unspecified fine.

“The person has also been ordered to pay the Canton of Geneva 10 million Swiss Francs -- which corresponds to illegal gains obtained from these culpable activities," added the statement.

General Abacha, who died in June 1998, is suspected of having siphoned over $3 billion from Nige-rian between his coming to power in November 1993 and his death four-and-a-half years later.

Some $700 million of his loot, which was stashed in Swiss banks, have since been returned by Switzerland to Nigerian authorities.

The General Abdulsalami Abubakar and later, Olusegun Obasanjo regime had put pressure on the Swiss government in a bid to recover an estimated $3 billion in embezzled state funds sent abroad by Abacha during his four and half-year rule.

Abacha used a circle of family members, close aides and business associates to transfer the loot.

At Nigeria's request, Switzerland froze hundreds of millions of dollars held there, as have Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

Between 1999 and 2007, the Obasanjo government succeeded in recovering about $700 million of the looted money from the Swiss government.

Recently, several leading banks in Switzerland have been criticised by the country's regulators for accepting money from the Abacha family

In a 2002 report, the Swiss Federal Banking Commission said 19 banks had dealings with Abacha and did not report suspicions of money laundering to the Swiss authorities.

Six banks - three branches of Crédit Suisse Plus, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Union Bancaire Privée and MM Warburg - were singled out for failing to run adequate checks on new accounts, including those opened by General Abacha's two sons.

“The mere fact that significant assets of dubious origin, from people close to former Nigerian President Sani Abacha, were deposited at Swiss banks is highly unsatisfactory and damages the image of Switzerland as a financial centre,” Banking Commission chairman Kurt Hauri said in 2002 after a 10-month investigation.

The commission said that almost a third of the Abacha money deposited with Swiss banks had first been banked in the UK, United States and Austria.
yeah rite.....we still aint getting none
Posted: at 29-11-2009 11:34 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- malalawan at 29-11-2009 06:46 PM (15 years ago)
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If Abatcha can loot such money in 4.5 years when the total Nigerian budget is only 200 million naira, imagine obasanjo's looting in 8 years when the country's budget is 3 trillion. bcos the nigerian masses did'nt see any change.
Posted: at 29-11-2009 06:46 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- olubenson007 at 2-12-2009 06:28 AM (15 years ago)
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Just like his thieving father.
Posted: at 2-12-2009 06:28 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- yomzjoe at 2-12-2009 05:07 PM (15 years ago)
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Wey all the money wey dem recover? thief dey catch thief. God will save this country.
Posted: at 2-12-2009 05:07 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- Agboko at 5-12-2009 02:15 PM (15 years ago)
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One thief take another one collect am no bi disame tin? d one wey den collect b4 wetin dey take am do, d man wey say him know pass all carry am go,leave dem bo, anytin wey look too original for this country na fake, make una look all their faces, dem b de same tin.
Posted: at 5-12-2009 02:15 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- prince775 at 5-12-2009 05:07 PM (15 years ago)
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All the Nigerian leaders are criminals and time has come when we should rise up for our right and fight this set of people... Obasanjo, Atiku, yaradua, Buari, and IBB are all thieves and they should all die like Abacha. they should come here in Europe and see how the government are helping their citizens. God will punish every leader who has done wrong one way or the other in Jesus name, amen.
Posted: at 5-12-2009 05:07 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- blings_is_back at 5-12-2009 11:54 PM (15 years ago)
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like father like.........
Posted: at 5-12-2009 11:54 PM (15 years ago) | Hero
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- forot at 8-12-2009 03:12 PM (15 years ago)
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where is the recover money and what differrnt is there between recover and embezzle all for them na thief them be
abeg.......... God dey
Posted: at 8-12-2009 03:12 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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- teeco at 8-12-2009 06:15 PM (15 years ago)
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Quote from: wizdum on 25-11-2009 10:39 AM
Nigeria is truly RICH!

weytin you think b4

Posted: at 8-12-2009 06:15 PM (15 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- Ify9ja at 8-12-2009 06:33 PM (15 years ago)
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Quote from: nametalkam on 25-11-2009 08:26 AM
Swiss authorities yesterday convicted Abba, one of the sons of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, for graft and ordered $350 million worth of assets to be seized from him.

"The first order of the sentence issued yesterday by the examining magistrate found that Abba Abacha, born November 9, 1968, son of the late General Sani Abacha, was guilty of participation in a criminal organisation," Geneva Canton's justice office said in a statement.

It said the examining magistrate sentenced Abba to a suspended jail term and ordered the confiscation of his assets worth $350 million “which is held by his criminal organisation and seized through international assistance in Luxembourg and the Bahamas.”

Agency reports say the court was not immediately available for comment on the duration of Abba’s suspended jail sentence.

In yesterday's statement, the Swiss authorities also said they had convicted a financial intermediary who is currently domiciled in the Principality of Monaco, for having been part of the “criminal organisation” run by the Abacha clan.

The person, who was not named, has been sentenced to pay an unspecified fine.

“The person has also been ordered to pay the Canton of Geneva 10 million Swiss Francs -- which corresponds to illegal gains obtained from these culpable activities," added the statement.

General Abacha, who died in June 1998, is suspected of having siphoned over $3 billion from Nige-rian between his coming to power in November 1993 and his death four-and-a-half years later.

Some $700 million of his loot, which was stashed in Swiss banks, have since been returned by Switzerland to Nigerian authorities.

The General Abdulsalami Abubakar and later, Olusegun Obasanjo regime had put pressure on the Swiss government in a bid to recover an estimated $3 billion in embezzled state funds sent abroad by Abacha during his four and half-year rule.

Abacha used a circle of family members, close aides and business associates to transfer the loot.

At Nigeria's request, Switzerland froze hundreds of millions of dollars held there, as have Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

Between 1999 and 2007, the Obasanjo government succeeded in recovering about $700 million of the looted money from the Swiss government.

Recently, several leading banks in Switzerland have been criticised by the country's regulators for accepting money from the Abacha family

In a 2002 report, the Swiss Federal Banking Commission said 19 banks had dealings with Abacha and did not report suspicions of money laundering to the Swiss authorities.

Six banks - three branches of Crédit Suisse Plus, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Union Bancaire Privée and MM Warburg - were singled out for failing to run adequate checks on new accounts, including those opened by General Abacha's two sons.

“The mere fact that significant assets of dubious origin, from people close to former Nigerian President Sani Abacha, were deposited at Swiss banks is highly unsatisfactory and damages the image of Switzerland as a financial centre,” Banking Commission chairman Kurt Hauri said in 2002 after a 10-month investigation.

The commission said that almost a third of the Abacha money deposited with Swiss banks had first been banked in the UK, United States and Austria.

Are you kidding me.  It took them this long before acting.  After years of Nigerians telling them that Abacha left billions of nigerian money in their account.  Now they decided to do something about it, after the money benefited their country.  Eeh.  Okay now, wetin happen to the money?  when we'll nigerians see the money? when we see am that's when i'll rejoice.  It still pissing me off that it took them this long to act on a statement nigerians have been screamingo n the top of our lungs for years. Almost a decade now smechh
Posted: at 8-12-2009 06:33 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
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- teeco at 8-12-2009 06:48 PM (15 years ago)
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na waa oh

Posted: at 8-12-2009 06:48 PM (15 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- shine1177 at 9-12-2009 04:07 PM (15 years ago)
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Naija will still arise again!

Posted: at 9-12-2009 04:07 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
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