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The second most remarkable detail about Michael Aondoakaa's time as Attorney General is that most efforts to prosecute Nigerians for corruption have come from jurisdictions abroad. The first is that he has tried to thwart them all. In August 2007, he wrote to a British court asking that Delta State ex-Governor James Ibori not be prosecuted for money laundering (the letter was used to unfreeze Ibori's accounts). In September 2007, he asked a French judge not to charge former Oil Minister Dan Etete with corruption. He denied a June 2009 Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request from Britain regarding the investigation of three former governors (Ibori, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Obong Victor Attah). They are suspected of a US$38 million fraud but Aondoakaa refused....

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