Nigeria Law
The Ledger

Lost1995· ≈ $5 billion

Abacha-era foreign reserves

Independent reconstructions place laundered sums at roughly $5 billion across Swiss, Jersey, Liechtenstein and London accounts.

Sani Abacha and family-linked accounts in Switzerland, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and the UK held funds estimated by Swiss authorities and Nigerian recovery teams at ~$5 billion at peak.

Sources

  • · Swiss Federal Office of Justice press releases
  • · Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice asset-recovery filings
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

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