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Friday, November 14, 2008

The $2 million bath of ashes

This is old, but interesting news from the Daily Telegraph in London on August 22, 2008:

"The chairman of a Nigerian development company was charged in August with stealing the equivalent of $5.5 million, and burning $2 million of that in cash so he could smear the ashes over his naked body in a nighttime "fortification" ritual in a cemetery."

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