Jul 22, 2004
Nigeria's biggest fraud case has been dismissed after the judge said he had no jurisdiction to hear it. The case involved three Nigerians accused of stealing more than $242m from a bank in Brazil by allegedly persuading a senior bank official to send the money for what they claimed to be a new airport in exchange for a $10m commission. Abuja High Court judge Lawal Gumi decided on Monday that as the offences had not taken place in the Nigerian capital he had no jurisdiction to try the case.
































