Nigeria: UK charges Nigerian governor

A Nigerian governor from oil-producing Bayelsa state was charged in London on Wednesday with laundering £1,82m, a court official said. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was arrested on September 15 by London's Metropolitan Police. The police later found £1m in cash in the governor's London house. He was charged at Bow Street magistrate's court with laundering money on three occasions: £420000 in September 2001, £475724 in March 2002 and £920000 in September this year, court documents showed.