Former Nigeria Delta State Governor, James Ibori To Spend The Next 13 Years In Prison

James Ibori, former governor of Delta state has been jailed for 13 years for fraud totalling nearly £50m ($77m).

Ibori, admitted to 10 counts of conspiracy to defrauding and money laundering.

Southwark Crown Court was told the amount he stole from the people of Delta state was "unquantified".

Ibori, who evaded capture in Nigeria after a mob of supporters attacked police, was arrested in Dubai in 2010.

He was extradited to the UK, where he was prosecuted based on evidence from the Metropolitan Police.

One of the counts Ibori admitted related to a $37m (£23m) fraud pertaining to the sale of Delta State's share in Nigerian privatised phone company company V Mobile.

He was governor of Delta State between May 1999 and May 2007.

Sasha Wass, QC, prosecuting, told the court Ibori "deliberately and systematically" defrauded the people he was elected to represent.