 In the meantime, the National Crime Agency in the UK says it has recovered 23 million for $39,724.98 loot believed to have been siphoned out of Nigeria in the 1990s by the associates and family of former head of state General Sonny Abacha. The funds formed part of a larger pool of monies identified by the United States Department of Justice, USD OJ, as having been misappropriated by Abacha and his allies. The NCA revealed that the funds have now been transferred to the Home Office for onward transmission to the USD OJ.