Policy paper

Return of stolen assets confiscated by the UK: agreement between the UK and Nigeria

This agreement between the governments of the UK and Nigeria facilitates the return of stolen funds recovered by UK agencies back to Nigeria.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service
• Published: 19 March 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

MoU between UK and Nigeria on the modalities for return of stolen assets confiscated by the UK: annex 1

HTML

MoU between UK and Nigeria on the modalities for return of stolen assets confiscated by the UK: annex 1

ODT, 554 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Schedule 4: Project disbursement plans

PDF, 1.58 MB, 25 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This is an Annex to the UK-Nigeria Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the modalities for the return of stolen assets confiscated by the UK. It marks the first return of assets under the MoU.

£4.2 million is being returned to Nigeria, which represent the funds recovered from the associates and family of James Ibori, the former Governor of Nigeria’s Delta State. The Annex includes a detailed budget plan, including a work and expenditure schedule for each project which the returned funds will contribute to.

Note that Schedule 6 of the Annex is an agreement between the US, Jersey and Nigeria and cannot be published here.

Published 19 March 2021