James Ibori, who was jailed in
Britain for laundering tens of millions of dollars in stolen public funds
through British banks and properties, lost an appeal against his conviction in
London on Wednesday.
Ibori was governor of
oil-producing Delta State in Southern Nigeria for eight years.
He had pleaded guilty in a London
court in 2012 to a 10-count charge of fraud and money-laundering, involving
sums amounting to at least 50 million pounds ($66 million).
He received a 13-year jail
sentence of which he served half, as is common in the British system.
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