Report in Reuters
is indicting some top ranking Nigerian officials over allegation bothering on
how more than half of $1.1 billion was collected as bribe, and lavished on jets
and armoured cars.
According to the letter seeking the help of UK’s Crown
Prosecution Service (CPS) to freeze the assets of those involved, Italian
prosecutors said some of the N83 billion ($533 million) slush money was used to
buy private jets and armoured vehicles.
“We are investigating many money transfers to many people in
various countries who received sums that vary from millions of dollars to
thousands of dollars,” Italian prosecutors told Reuters.
