(This petition will be sent to the authorities in The United Kingdom, the USA, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, the European Union.)
Campaign Coordinator : Oreva Obaro
Korporalstubben 4a, NORWAY
Dear Mr/Mrs President/Prime Minister/Chancellor,
Fifteen British banks have assisted the late Nigerian dictator Abacha to laundering a fortune says The Financial Services Authority. Renowned banks in the city of London - by breaking their own rules - have laundered over 1 billion US dollars of the more than 4 billion dollars Abacha has taken out of Nigeria.
Widely respected newspapers like the Financial Times, The Guardian and others have reported this laundering of the Abacha billions by Western banks. The facts above are well established and new ramifications continue to be publicized regularly.
Despite all of the above, the money belonging to the Nigerian people, stolen by Abacha and his associates, is still in these same Western banks earning profits for these institutions.
We urge the British government and governments in all involved countries to immediately take the necessary steps to stop banks making profits from money-laundering, and to restore to the people of Nigeria their rightful property now.