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it will bring peace to her village. Some of her neighbours say it could | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
be out of place. At her home in North Hykeham sister Mary and Joyce | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
tending her garden. Her bungalow could look something like this, an | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
enormous cross 20 feet high would tower over the time. There are 400- | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
500 crosses around the world. They are meant for everyone. Not just | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
for me. They are for spiritual protection for the area, city and | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the county. Not all of those living in the area or think it is a good | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
idea. I think it is absolutely outrageous. I have only just got to | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
know about it. I am just shocked. I cannot believe that anyone would | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
want to impose such an odious object in full view of the public. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Others are more supportive. Nice to see an expression of Christian | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Identity. Good luck to the lady for having the courage of her | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
convictions to do so. The sister is no stranger to controversy. She | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
still considers herself a noun. Her campaign against the Ffion, the | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Diffin she code, took her to the Cannes Film Festival. -- film, the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Da Vinci Code. Her across has attracted both support and | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
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opposition. -- cross. Planners will have the final say after 21st July. | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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That's all for me for now. It's time for Our World. Money makes the | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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world go around. This is what happens when billions are stolen | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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from Africa's for by their own politicians. He gave me $16 million | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
in cash. The crimes are hidden by contacts and institutions in the | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
rich and developed nations of the West. He is bringing large amounts | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
of cash with him on the flights. Each and every action he did was | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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corrupt. It is January, 2004. Police are a | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
quarter of a hotel where a guest is outside his room on the fifth floor | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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giving away money. He was throwing notes around like confetti. Giving | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
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the staff. Just like that. INAUDIBLE. He had so much. | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
guest was a senior politician from Nigeria, a state governor. His | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
arrest overtime would lead investigators to worldwide networks | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
for laundering money. Politicians in Africa would steal millions and | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
then people in respectable offices in London and elsewhere would bury | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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the traces, cover them up so they looked legitimate. The Governor is | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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coming! In Nigeria state governors ruled the roost. They are viewed | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
with awe or contempt. Supporters of this governor are on the streets. | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
He is at the courthouse. He is charged with stealing $100 million | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
from state coffers. In the past decade since the cash giveaway at | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
the London hotel, governors in more than 50% of Nigeria's 36 states | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
have faced similar charges. This is just the latest. Even when | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
convicted few go to jail. Justice like everything else can be | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
compromised. One Nigerian Observer has just said to me rather Rivoli, | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
this is how we celebrate corruption. The consequences of corruption are | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
just around the corner. No pavements, no roads and filth. This | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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is the centre of the state capital. All the situation... This is the | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
business district. Detectives from London following up on the governor | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
who gave away money eventually went to Nigeria to testify in a number | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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of cases. It was a culture shock. We went to his impeachment hearing, | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
that was a little tricky. We had an armed escort, we felt reasonably | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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safe. We were brought in by helicopter into Jos. 500 security | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
personnel. Guns everywhere. Britain's department for | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
development keen to establish its anti-corruption credentials funded | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
the investigation. These were people who faced gun shots and | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
worse in their quest to clean up Nigeria. It was very difficult. | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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Extremely powerful people with so much money and resources. As well | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
as followers. To bring them to justice was the most difficult | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
thing you could imagine. No-one was more powerful than the biggest | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
target of all, James Ibori. In the scale of corrupt governors, where | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
his James Ibori? Very much on top. He rubbed Nigerian state funds of | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
untold fortunes. He started out here in West London working as a | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
cashier in a hardware store. He was sacked for allowing his wife for | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
taking �200 worth of material without paying. The following year | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
he was arrested again for using a stolen credit card. He now had two | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
convictions for dishonesty and was facing county court judgments for | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
debt. It was 1991. James Ibori fled back to Nigeria. He was broke and | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
at rock-bottom. By the end of the decade he managed to become one of | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
the richest and most important role was in all Africa. As it has been | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
so often since independence, Nigeria in the 1990s was in the | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
grip of a military dictatorship. It is reckoned the family stole up to | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
$7 billion from the state. For the newly returned James Ibori, the | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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cronies were the people to impress. He became the chief of staff... The | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
chief security officer, they became extremely close. That was the | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
beginning. The starting point of how James Ibori became a very | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
powerful person in Nigeria. Niger Delta should be one of the | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
most prosperous regions in the earth. It produces millions of | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
dollars. The riches go into the pockets of the elite. James Ibori, | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
sponsored by Nigeria's ruling clique became governor of Delta | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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State. His salary was $25,000. But he was soon a very wealthy man. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
This man set up Nigeria's anti- corruption squad. His prime target | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
was James Ibori. He was buying companies, aeroplanes, he had | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
properties in South Africa, UK, US and so on. What is more he was | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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offering huge bribes. He offered 50 million me $15 million -- he | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
offered me a $15 million. How could you resist the temptation? There is | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
no difference between $100, $10 million, $100 million. It was wrong. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
It is not yours. Especially an individual fighting corruption. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Governors in Nigeria are immune from prosecution while in office. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
At the end of his term he was charged with corruption. When the | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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police moved in he made a run for it. There was a chase through the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
suburbs with James Ibori's car trailed by the anti-corruption | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
squad. He finally took refuge in the lodge of a personal friend. The | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
Governor of another state. It was only after a prolonged stand-off | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
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that James Ibori gave himself up. This is one of the interrogation | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
rooms where Nigeria's politically exposed people, governors accused | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
of corruption, have been brought. For much of the past ten years the | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
man who has been directing the interrogations is this man. His | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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biggest challenge, James Ibori. think we underestimated what was | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
coming after his arrest. He faced 140 charges. When he was brought | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
before a court every one of them was dismissed. James Ibori walked | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
free. For Nigeria's anti-corruption scored it was a devastating blow. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
His anti-corruption work had amassed to many enemies. They tried | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
to kill him. The car was bullet- proof, it needed to be. On a | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
country road he was ambushed. After a second attempt on his life he | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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went into exile, leaving behind a political class. It is a product of | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
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this completely corrupt system. He was so rich and powerful. With | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
corruption thwarting justice within Nigeria, 3,000 miles away there was | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
a breakthrough. Investigators in London had been following the | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
activities of James Ibori. Huge amounts of money coming in from | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Nigerian companies. Huge amounts of cash coming into those accounts. | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
They live extortionate lifestyles. �180,000 a month on a credit card. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
Every month. What was he buying? was spending money like water. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
should have been in Poland for a trip. He spent two days there. He | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
flew back into London and then flew off to Miami and Los Vegas for 14 | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
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days. He was bringing large amounts # You never give me your money | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
His $5 million house in Hampstead is up for sale. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
There were various properties around the globe. | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
He had luxury cars on threet continents private schools and tens | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
of millions of assets. He had a bent London solicitor. | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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The lawyer's name was Badrash and he worked in Mayfair. The law firm | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
had offices here. We know he worked for the former President of Samibia | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
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who was akiezed of gross corruption. We know he helped Zabori to launder | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
millions. If there was suspicions of staff, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
they would have to go to him. compliance man? Correct. When the | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
police raided Gohill's office they found plans of money laundering | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
designed to hide the funds. They were there on computer hard-drives. | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
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One scam described thedeposit of a $20 million private jet. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
It went to Luxembourg, Germany, niejeer ja or four, five occasions. | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
It goes bath r back and forth. He had a company inkorpl rated in | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Polynesia. Money makes the world go around. To | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
buy the plane, Gohill used the secret accounts in Nigeria and | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
America. To trace the source of one Swiss account, he'd have to go to | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
companies incorporated in Mauritious, in turn set up by a | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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foundation in Panama, created by a trust in Polynesia, to disguise the | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
truth about his wealth. He brought his wife, mistress and sister, all | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
jailed for their part. Gohillt solicitor, got seven years. James | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Abori himself was sentenced to 13 years. But the story is far from | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
over. What emerged since provides a bleak illustration of how | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
corruption casts a cloud which spreads and lingers. Serious | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
questions have been raised about the way the investigation was | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
handled by the British Government and the UK police. To rewind, | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Ibori's trial went ahead December Mursiings from the defence that the | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
London Police were involved in corruption. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
I asked the detectives what they felt about that. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
There's allegations of whether they were direct from James Ibori irk | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
couldn't. It's disgraceful. But then weeks after Ibori's trial | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
a committee of UK MPs heard evidence from the lawyer for Gohil. | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
He suggested the London detectives still had serious questions to | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
answer about what he allege was their own criminal conduct. The key | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
cup prits appear to be the key players. The Senior Investigating | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
cuff officer, DI Gary Walters and two of the key investigateers, DC | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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John McDonald's and DC Clarke. Together they top and tail things | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
so that in a way their own misconduct can't be detected. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
unnamed serving constable and three former officers were arrested on | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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suspicion of involvement in bribery. They are all on bail. Andrew | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Mitchell says his department spent $500. | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
It showed thaish commitment to rooting out corruption. | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
He was allegedly embroiled in Ibori's cash laundering. | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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Three years ago an Anglo Nigerian businessman warned that his | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
enterprise arm involved with Ibori's company. But... Instead of | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
investigating my report, the people who I accused place me under | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
investigation. The whole idea of protecting my confidentiality was | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
thrown out of the window right from the beginning. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
It was found every aspect of his life, birth in England, education | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
and businesses in Nigeria, were put under covert investigation. He was | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
secretly watched and photographed. That was the start. | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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It becomes my house. I'm very, very upset about that, | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
because I cannot see the baring, how that bears on my children. I | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
can't see any investigation into me. What has that to do with my | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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children, their school, identity. We learned Nigeria's anti- | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
corruption squad, part funded by UK government aid. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
The money the whistle blower linked to laundering. Seven years after it | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
began, funding inquiries into Nigeria's corrupt government ners. | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
The UK's Government Aid agency finds itself on both sides of of a | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
criminal investigation. That incredible paradox that the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
same people that have funded the prosecution are the same people | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
that have funded activities which are now being investigated. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Which are now investigated. In a statement they said their inquiries | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
of three years ago found no indication British aid had been | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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Amid the decay of corruption, the - some of Nigeria's politicians | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
learned to read and write in this school. | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Back then it had a proper roof and windows and a floor. | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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Now there's none of that. Most of the classes have a flr | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
that's not good for children to sit. We manage it. We complained to the | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Government, but up to now nothing has been done. There should be | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
plenty of money. Nigeria is not poor. You know, as we are in this | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
country, whatever you complain to government, they will not listen to | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
you. So we don't know what they are doing with the money. Do you think | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
corruption... Yes, corruption. It's very, very sad. We don't know when | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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According to one American diplomat, James Ibori may have robbed Nigeria | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
of as much as $2 billion to $3 billion. That is a fraction of the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
$30 billion it is estimated Nigeria lost in illicit deals in the last | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
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Some of the luxury cars used by the gang r governors are now parked in | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
a field close to the headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Squad. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
They've been confiscated. But it's a tiny victory for a state drowning | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
in corruption's tide. People are entrusted, in the eyes | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
of the politicians, to manage their affairs, because political office | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
is pursued first. Look at this, they are in bad shape. Most of the | :23:54. | :24:00. |