Posted on: 06:35 Wed, 03 Feb 2016



James Ibori, the former Delta state governor,
has been rearrested in the United Kingdom after
initially regaining freedom from a London prison.

The ex-governor, who reportedly completed his
prison terms in the United Kingdom bagged a
13-year in April 2012 by a Southwark Crown
court in London and was released by prison
authorities on January 22.

He finished his prison term at Her Majesty’s
Prison in Bedford, outside of London, after
initially being held at the Long Lartin Prison in
Worcestershire.

According to PM News, a prison source at
Bedford confirmed on Tuesday night that, “He is
out of here.” but his new destination is yet to be
confirmed.

Ibori was reportedly re-arrested to face another
charge which borders on the confiscation of his
ill-gotten assets, estimated to be about 250
million pounds as sources confirmed that the
case initially billed for May, will now come up in
June.

Ibori, 57, had been jailed for using UK financial
institutions to misappropriate hundreds of
millions of pound sterling he stole from public
funds in Delta state and his journey to jail
began with his arrest on May 13, 2010 in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.

He was nabbed under Interpol arrest warrants
issued from United Kingdom courts and enacted
by the Metropolitan Police.