How ex-Gambia President Yahya Jammeh's US mansion was seized
Source: BBC
How ex-Gambia President Yahya Jammeh's US mansion was seized
By Damian Zane
BBC News
27 May 2022
Some amateur sleuthing and a chance encounter helped uncover how the former president of The Gambia had laundered his money by buying a luxurious property in the US.
Now a court has ruled that the $3m (£2.4m) mansion in the state of Maryland, near Washington DC, should be seized from a trust set up by ex-Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh.
Funds raised by the sale of the house should benefit those who were harmed by the former president's "acts of corruption and abuse of office", the US authorities say.
An investigation by the department of justice (DOJ) found that the money used to buy the six-bedroom house was raised through corruption.
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Yahya Jammeh and his wife, Zineb, were welcomed at the White House during an African leaders summit in 2014 (Getty Images)
