Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion

Mr. Kevin McMeel:

It was probably in 2014. He was the kleptocrat leader of the Republic of Nigeria in the 1990s and would have been guilty of, or certainly would have come within the definition of, gross human rights abuse. His crime was embezzlement and corruption and, therefore, we were able to seize the moneys. We were agnostic to the fact he was a gross human rights abuser and that did not come into it, other than that it added context to the embezzlement and corruption. We were able to return those funds, which I think were somewhere in the region of $5 million, although I do not want to misquote.

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