UN Joins Hunt for Stolen Billions

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UN Joins Hunt for Stolen Billions



The Nation (Nairobi)

December 11, 2004
Posted to the web December 10, 2004

Nairobi

The UN crime agency has launched a programme to help Nigeria and Kenya to retrieve money lost to corruption, the agency leader said yesterday.

The Office on Drugs and Crime will help the two countries efforts to recover "at least some of the billions of dollars which during the 1990s were illegally exported," agency director Antonio Maria Costa said.

The programme could later be expanded to other poor countries, he said.

"The recovery of stolen assets is one of the most promising and concrete aspects of the fight against corruption," said Mr Costa.

Thursday marked the first anniversary of the signing conference of the United Nations Convention against Corruption at M rida, Mexico, and the commemoration of the first International Anti-Corruption Day.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200412100833.html

Wonder where it all went.....

[vpigrad]

1. Why is it...

you so often hear the white media so often accuse Africans of corruption? There's plenty here in the US. I guess they're trying to distract from the problems at home.

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2. I was thinking more along the lines that

The media here is ignoring it mostly because it was probably the white governments up north (mentioned in article) who benefitted from it somehow. Wonder where * is connected :)