Convicted fraudster and former Nigerian state governor James Ibori has been awarded £1 ($1.30) for being unlawfully detained for 42 hours in the UK.
Ibori was jailed in the UK for fraud totalling nearly £50m in 2012.

He was due to be released on 20 December but instead was held in immigration detention.
After he was released he launched his claim against the Home Secretary Amber Rudd for damages for false imprisonment and breach of his rights.

On Monday Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said the home secretary had been "wrong throughout her dealings with Mr Ibori over the weeks leading to his release" and that he had been unlawfully detained.

However, she rejected Ibori's claim for £4,000 in damages. Instead she awarded "nominal damages" of £1.
The judge also said that the decision to keep him in immigration detention was probably because of millions of pounds the authorities have still not recovered from him.
A Home Office email, published in the court judgement, recommended to keep him in immigration detention to buy time to work out how to recover at least £57m.
"The best course of action at present is to place him in immigration detention and review the position in February or when we know more about the confiscation process", it said.

On 21 December a High Court judge ordered his immediate release from prison. Ibori eventually left the UK in February.

James Ibori went from petty thief to Nigerian state governor to convicted money launderer. He came to the UK in the 1980s and worked as a cashier at a DIY store in London.

He was convicted in 1991 of stealing from the store but then returned to Nigeria and got involved in politics.
When he ran for Delta State governor he lied about his date of birth to hide his UK conviction - which would have prevented him standing for office.
He became governor in 1999 and soon began taking money from state coffers.

The British police began to take an interest in Ibori again in 2005 after they came across a purchase order for a private jet, made through his solicitor in London.
He evaded capture in Nigeria after a mob of supporters attacked police, but was arrested in Dubai in 2010 and was extradited to the UK.

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Okay oo.

£1.....N500.....2 bottles of beer.

padi padi judiciary

This is epic

And they just gave him extra money that he didn't work for. Ibori the lucky thief!

let them detain me please
BTW This can never happen in Naija
what you receive is beating instead

I thought its in bet9ja that's why I opened the thread

Shameless man

Shuuu

fastgyal:
let them detain me please BTW This can never happen in Naija what you receive is beating instead

Lol And give you 5h later

I love the title'' CONVICTED NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER" . It is here in Nigeria we Celebrate fraudster, they dont do that in UK.

Ibori....

Oboy this people badt gan o. See finishing,oya come and take £1

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Great WIN

One day Bush meat will catch the hunter. By the way, Ibori has been walking freely in Nigeria after his release from jail in the Uk. I thought he had some corruption chages againt him here in Nigeria and yet no one has said anything about it. This makes me to deduce the following:
(1)Is Buhari/Efcc/Dss all afraid of this powerful politician from Delta state?

(2)Or is Chief Ibori planning to defect to the APC and work for the re election of Buhari in 2019?
What do u think folks? Something fishy is happening in this country.

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IPOB youths right now.... £1?




Nnamdi Kanu, nna, make we issue ultimatum to UK government .

No be our oyel?

Ibori right now...

LordAdam16 hucienda Areafada Your hero is £1 richer. I'm so envious of you right now. Can't contain my joy for you

The smiling one

£1?

Dem don finish Ibori o
Real fatality..


Chisos!!!

Wa woooo. Good for him. He can use the £1 to buy candy