Nigeria in talks with Swiss to recover Abacha loot

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Nigeria has lodged a request for judicial cooperation with Switzerland as part of an ongoing probe into an alleged multi-billion-dollar embezzlement by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, Swiss authorities said on Saturday.

"We received a request for judicial cooperation from Nigeria on October 3 concerning the restitution of funds" that have been blocked in Switzerland, the spokesman for the Federal Office of Justice, Folco Galli said. His comments confirmed a report in Saturday's edition of the La Liberte newspaper.

Abacha, who died in 1998, is suspected of having looted the Nigerian treasury to the tune of about $2,2-billion (1,9-billion euros) during his stay in power from November 1993 to June 1998. Just over $600-million remains blocked in Swiss bank accounts.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=21807

What are the odds do you think Bush-Carlyle, Cheney-Halliburton got some of this?

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1. I think I got some email about this recently

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