Nigeria: Attorney general in hot water following allegations of misconduct in recovery of frozen monies

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  • the secretary to the federal government, Nigeria's most senior federal civil servant, who was dismissed in October 2017 for his alleged involvement in an $8 million fraud case involving relief funds for persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency; and
  • the director general of the National Intelligence Agency, who was also dismissed in October 2017 after he was discovered to have kept $43 million in cash, which belonged to the agency, in an apartment that was beneficially owned by his wife (for further details please see "Further seizures following whistleblower tip-offs").

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Published June 18, 2018

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