James Ibori
A London High Court has awarded £1 as damages to be paid to former Delta State governor and convicted money launderer James Ibori over his claim of unlawful detention by British Home Secretary Amber Rudd, UK Evening Standard reports.
Justice Cheema-Grubb ruled that Ibori was unlawfully held for one day, 18 hours and 10 minutes between December 20 and 21 last year.
Ibori had demanded £4,000 as damages.
“There is no compensatory loss to Mr Ibori and I fix nominal damages at £1,” the judge said.
Ibori was jailed for fraud totalling nearly £50m in April 2012.
Ibori who was due to be released on December 20, 2016, was detained by the Home Office after indicating that there was no intention to deport Ibori to Nigeria until he handed over at least £57m “proceeds of crime”.
High Court Justice May ordered Ibori to be freed on conditions, describing the attempts to detain as “quite extraordinary”.
He was subsequently released and he returned to Nigeria in February 2017.
Lol piss take
LMAO!
There is a reason why the brits are known for sarcasm. Well done Uk. Lol
They should have just gave him the middle finger and kept on moving this is embarrassing
What da??? Looooool…..
Lmao!
Thot it was an error until I read the story! Rotflmao!
Thought it is 1 million pounds at first
Lol Ibori himself is a shameless thief and got served!!
Hahahaha! Joke’s on you Ibori Lmaoooooo
Lmao…Atleast £1 is #490 and can get him a bottle of chilled Eva water to calm him down
…while in Nigeria years back, Thief Igbinedion appeared in court for stealing $3m and the court asked him to pay $300k as a fine…the old thief brought the money from his pocket right in the court and the case was closed..finito. My interpretation….the court decided to take the 10% he refused to drop in his church lol
Shameless Ibori.
Looking from the picture, you don’t need to be told that he is a thief.
Haha! He should add that to his bank account. I can tell he’s broke!!
Lol, dude thought he was going get something tangible…. OYO was his case.
How does this 1 pound news erase the 5 years he spent for fraud???? Olebori 2x
Its high time we Nigerians start to publicly shame these polithieves.
The big question is why the U.K. was asking Ibori to hand over £57m as proceeds of crime? Was the crime committed in U.K. Or was the money stolen from them?
There is a Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and part 7 of the act contains the primary UK anti-money laundering legislation. It doesn’t matter where the crime was committed and if the money was stolen from them. Do not launder money in UK banking institutions and do not acquire assets using laundered money. “In consequence any person who commits an acquisitive crime (i.e. one from which he obtains some benefit in the form of money or an asset of any description) in the UK will inevitably also commit a money laundering offence under UK legislation.”
Double standards from them – they will happily take your money but when you are exposed, they will throw the law at you.,