MYSTERY FLIGHTS: The Nigeria Jet Spat

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By Georgia Gee Welcome to Whale Hunting, a newsletter delving into hidden worlds of wealth and power from the team at Project Brazen. Catch up on all of our work here, including Fur & Loathing, our Gateway podcast about Europe's drug wars and The Professor, about one man’

By Georgia Gee

Welcome to Whale Hunting, a newsletter delving into hidden worlds of wealth and power from the team at Project Brazen. Catch up on all of our work here, including Fur & Loathing, our Gateway podcast about Europe's drug wars and The Professor, about one man’s quest to find the Mafia’s missing masterpiece.

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In this edition of Whale Hunting, you’re reading Mystery Flights, our biweekly feature where we track the planes and jets of the world’s most powerful in collaboration with Dictator Alert. The flights raise many questions about where dictators and their governments are going. Feel free to reach out with context that could further unravel these journeys.

This week on Mystery Flights, we bring you some top-tier international jet drama. A French court just seized three jets owned by the Nigerian government amid a long-standing million-dollar dispute between the government of Ogun, a region of Nigeria, and a Chinese company. The Nigerian government had offered $5 million in compensation — and one jet was just released.

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