Nigeria-corruption
   Nigeria starts legal action over stolen millions

   LAGOS, March 31 (AFP) - Nigeria has started legal action to recover
hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by the late dictator General Sani
Abacha and his family and stashed abroad, newspaper reports said Friday.
   "We have filed some suits in some countries abroad," Deputy Finance
Minister Jubril Martins-Kuye told Nigerian reporters in Abuja late Thursday.
   The minister declined to provide details of the cases being undertaken,
said the newspapers The Guardian and The Vanguard.
   Last year, Switzerland froze more than 550 million dollars in dozens of
accounts linked to Abacha, members of his family and associates following a
request from the Nigerian government.
   The accounts are said to be held in ten different Swiss Banks.
   The Nigerian government is also reported to be pursuing funds alleged to
have been stashed in Britain, the United States, France, Belgium and other
European countries.
   pcj/dc

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