France has joined Britain and the United States in promising to help Nigeria's democratic government recover billions of dollars of public money stolen under past military regimes, the French news agency, AFP, reported on Friday.
French Ambassador Phillppe Peltier told reporters in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Friday that Paris would help trace money that may have been transferred illegally into accounts in France, AFP said.
"We are open and we will do our best to help," he said, after a meeting with Nigerian Deputy Foreign Minister Dubem Oniya.
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