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He subsequently pleaded guilty to 10 serious criminal charges, related to stealing of huge sums of public funds, during his two terms as Delta State Governor.
A British High Court, has declared as unlawful, the detention of the former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, in the United Kingdom prison.
The court in its ruling, declared that James Ibori was unlawfully detained, with the court awarding a derisory £1 in damages.
Recall, that upon Ibori’s release, last February, he launched his claim for damages for false imprisonment, and breach of his rights, under the 1998 Human Rights Act.
Earlier, the former Delta State Governor was extradited to the United Kingdom from Dubai, for trial, in February 2012, and prosecuted with evidence provided by the Metropolitan Police.
He was sentenced in April 2012, at Southwark Crown Court, to 13-years imprisonment, for fraud verging on £50 million, and an order for his deportation as a foreign criminal was made in Ma,y 2015.
The ex-convict demanded £4,000 in damages for being detained by United Kingdom Home Secretary, Amber Rudd.
However, the Judge, Mrs. Justice Cheema-Grubb, ruled that the convicted Politician, is only entitled to a nominal £1 of the sum for the claimed breaches of his human rights.
In her ruling on Monday, Mrs. Cheema Grubb, declared that Ibori was unlawfully held for one day, 18 hours and 10 minutes, between December 20 and 21 last year, adding that, the Home Secretary: “failed to have regard to her limits to detain”, following a failure to hold effective confiscation proceedings, in respect of a sum of money estimated to be £57 million.
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