Sani Abacha ran Nigeria from 1993 until 1998, when he died in office — conveniently before anyone could charge him with anything. In the intervening years, Transparency International calculated he had helped himself to as much as $5 billion in public funds from Africa's largest oil producer, a country where the average citizen was somehow not also a billionaire. The money scattered itself across Switzerland, Luxembourg, Jersey, and the United States with the elegant efficiency only serious institutional theft can manage. Switzerland alone repatriated over $700 million in multiple tranches, with another $321 million agreed in 2017. In 2020, the US and Jersey signed a $300 million repatriation deal. Nigeria's foreign minister confirmed $700 million had already come back from Switzerland with more queued up. His son Abba was charged by a Swiss court with money-laundering, fraud and forgery, extradited from Germany, and spent 561 days in custody before Nigeria helpfully agreed to drop complaints against him in exchange for getting the frozen funds back. A lawyer named Enrico Monfrini tracked down $1.3 billion of the loot personally. Nobody is keeping a running total. Nobody wants to.