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Former thieving governors with US assets
By SaharaReporters, New York
Are you a Nigerian or a friend of Nigeria who knows of proceeds of
Nigerian corruption that are located anywhere in the United States?
You can now help bring those responsible for it to book and to
repatriate the assets by contacting US federal law enforcement. Or
you can fire off an email to kleptocracy@usdoj.gov.
Under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative of the Department
of Justice, a dedicated team of prosecutors located in the Criminal
Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, is
working in partnership with federal law enforcement agencies to
forfeit the proceeds of foreign official corruption and where
appropriate return those proceeds to benefit those who have been
the victims.
It is through their efforts that the United States last May seized
over $3 million in funds looted by James Ibori, the jailed former
governor of Delta State, which was announced yesterday.
“This serves as a warning to those corrupt foreign officials who
abuse their power for personal financial gain and then attempt to
place those funds in the U.S. financial system,” said Director
Morton of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a
statement issued yesterday.
“ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents will
continue to work with our law enforcement partners at the
Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and
Money Laundering Section to investigate and prosecute those
involved in such illicit activities and hold corrupt foreign officials
accountable by denying them the satisfaction of their illegal
earnings.”
The Ibori case in the US is being prosecuted by trial attorneys Woo
S. Lee and Elizabeth Aloi of the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture
and Money Laundering Section. The case was investigated by ICE
HSI’s Foreign Corruption Investigations Group, HSI Asset
Identification and Removal Group in Miami and HSI Attaché
London.
According to the statement, ICE HSI’s Foreign Corruption
Investigations Group in Miami targets corrupt foreign officials
around the world that attempt to utilize U.S. financial institutions
to launder illicit funds. The group conducts investigations into the
laundering of proceeds emanating from foreign public corruption,
bribery or embezzlement. The objective is to prevent foreign
derived ill-gotten gains from entering the U.S. financial
infrastructure, to seize identified assets in the United States and
repatriate these funds on behalf of those affected by foreign
official corruption.

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This also applies to those with strong connections with places like Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Saudi Arabia et al

Nice one. I hope Nigerians will cooperate.