The Department of Justice announced today that it has transferred over $20.6 million to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in accordance with an Aug. 23 agreement between the governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to the kleptocracy of former Nigerian Dictator General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators.

1. This repatriation brings the total amount forfeited and returned by the United States in this case to approximately $332.4 million.