A LIECHTENSTEIN court has frozen the bank accounts of Nigeria’s late military ruler Sani Abacha on the request of lawyers acting on behalf on the Nigerian government, a spokesman said on Thursday. Various accounts at three banks in the principality were blocked on Monday, according to the spokesman. He gave no indication of the sum of money involved, but the Nigerian government suspects that up 100 million dollars of looted government funds may be held in Liechentstein, according to its lawyers. The block is a provisional measure and the result of an appeal for international cooperation from Nigeria in its investigation of suspicions that Abacha transferred up to three billion dollars of public money to foreign bank accounts. Abacha’s accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg have already been frozen. Swiss authorities blocked some 645 million dollars in 140 accounts belonging to Abacha and his entourage in 11 banks last October, and a further 80 million dollars in December.