U.S. says it will repatriate to Nigeria about $1 mln embezzled by ex-official
KANISHKA SINGH THE United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which was embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said. The step was in accordance with an agreement between the two governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to what it calls the kleptocracy of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of the oil-producing state of Bayelsa in the Niger Delta, the Justice Department said in a statement.= Alamieyeseigha was accused of corruption in 2005 when he was caught with almost a million pounds in cash in his London home and was…