international con-art or was the Nigerian Spam real?

"Nigeria closes in on missing cash" [BBC NEWS | Business]

I could not believe that my conspiracy theory regarding using the Nigerian Spam to peek into private Swiss bank accounts is actually seems pretty real, and I've laughted my a...s off today after reading this:

Nigerian government's lawyer Enrico Monfrini: "$2.8bn were taken away from the Central Bank of Nigeria in cash."

...billions of dollars ...went missing from Nigeria's central bank when the late military ruler Sani Abacha was in power...

...A lot of the money is believed to be in Swiss bank accounts, and Switzerland has now said it will help to send the money back.

Earlier this week, Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice said it had temporarily lifted the lid on the country's banking secrecy and handed over bank documents concerning relatives of the former dictator.

In return, Nigeria assured the Swiss that the human rights of any Abacha family member would be respected in the event that they would be tried before a court or face criminal proceedings.

During Mr Abacha's rein, from 1994 to 1998, a huge sum of money went missing from Nigeria's central bank.

Some reports put the total amount at several billion dollars.

"Nobody knows exactly how much money was made by these people," said Enrico Monfrini, a Swiss lawyer working for Nigeria's government to try and track down and return the missing money. "All what we know was that $2.8bn was taken away from the Central Bank of Nigeria in cash... The rest of the money was made outside through commissions paid for by various international, or multinational, companies."

Here is a little history (in links) behind this man [via BBC.com]:
19 Nov 2002 Abacha's son fights back
26 Sep 02 Deal on Abacha's millions 'collapses'
12 Jul 2002 Nigerian police rearrest Abacha son
12 Jul 2002 Nigerians divided over Abacha ruling
12 Aug 2000 Nigeria tracks Abacha's loot
28 May 2000 Corruption: Obasanjo's toughest challenge
08 Oct 1999 Abacha's son arrested in Nigeria
05 Nov 1998 Nigeria's missing millions
25 Apr 1998 Nigeria: General Abacha's era of dictatorship
25 Apr 1998 (alt. link) Nigeria: General Abacha's era of dictatorship