The biggest earners no longer remained but some players still had contracts dating from better times.
However, BPI was then J.P. Morgan's counter-party in two derivatives contracts, dating from January 2005.
Besides forcing the retirement of the army officers who most obviously grew fat on their links with the Abacha regime, he suspended government contracts dating from the last three months of General Abubakar's transitional administration, pending a review.
In 2007, the Justice Department filed a complaint against H.P., Sun Microsystems and Accenture, in connection with millions of dollars in kickbacks and illegal rebates paid among technology partners working on government contracts dating to the 1990s.
In an announcement that throws the Coalition's privatisation drive into disarray, the Serious Fraud Office was called in to investigate G4S, the world's largest security company, over contracts dating back over a decade.
A commission has been set up to look into South African contracts dating back to 1999; the government has already conceded that offset credits changed hands at inflated prices.
The first documents in Sardinian are condaghi, legal contracts dating from approximately 1080; in the north of the island, Sardinian was used for such documents until the 17th century.
Her father, Frank Reese Didion, was an army finance officer who spent the war sorting out contracts dating back to the first world war, which meant moving between various army bases.
