Seizure / forfeiture
Sani Abacha: $311M moved in 2020
The United States and Jersey returned $311m of assets looted during his rule to Nigeria.
The figure
- Amount311,000,000 US dollars
- CategorySeizure / forfeiture
- CorridorGeorge Town, Cayman Islands → Abuja, Nigeria
- Distance9.5K km apart
- Year reported2020
- Documentation confidence88/100
What that amount buys
$311M is roughly 4 long-range private jets, 740 median-priced US homes, or 3.9K years of median US household income.
Sani Abacha is publicly known as former head of state, nigeria. The arc drawn for this entry joins George Town and Abuja because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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