Share the stolen money and you will be transformed from thief to hero
When you steal a phone or a chicken, you are a thief. When you steal in millions you are corrupt. But when you steal in billions you become a community elder, a national hero and a king maker. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
When your salary is $25,000 a year, you cannot exactly be called rich. When, with that salary, you get some expensive toys for yourself, then eyebrows are raised. How do you afford luxury properties, fleets of Rolls Royces, a Bentley and a Maybach, first class travel, private boarding school fees and a private jet worth $20 million?
This story is fact stranger than fiction, and is drawn from the country with the largest churches in the world — Nigeria — the land of my birth. The person of interest is James Ibori, whom Reuters describes as follows:
