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Corruption: Landmark cases flounder as crime team is purged

By Michael Peel

Published: July 20 2009 22:31 | Last updated: July 20 2009 22:31

High above the shisha joints and travel agents of west London’s Edgware Road, the former rooftop penthouse of a disgraced governor of a Nigerian oil state is up for sale.

The £3.5m ($5.7m) flat in the Water Gardens complex is on the market after being seized by the English courts from DSP Alamieyeseigha and given back to the country whose coffers he allegedly looted.

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