I managed to find some details.  Ebou apparently returned $3 Million Dollars
but there is still more that is missing.

My opinion is that there was more money they stole.  This is the text I found:


GAMBIA
NEW AFRICAN MARKET


Gambia regains missing millions

There is a new twist to our story of January 1997 on Gambia's missing
millions. We revealed that $3m had been stashed away in a secret bank account
in Switzerland.
The man who banked the money was Captain Ebou Jallow, who had earlier
resigned after falling out with the Gambian military junta before going into
exile.
He claimed that the money had been transferred by the Central Bank of Gambia
to the Credit Lyonnnais Suisse bank in Geneva on the express instructions of
the Head of State President Yahya Jammeh. Jallow had been a close confidant
of Jammeh and said that he had a full power of attorney and had transferred
the money on Jammeh's behalf.
This was the point at issue when the case was brought to trial one year later
in a Geneva court. The Swiss court found against Jallow and ruled that he
should forfeit the $3m held in his account. It also ruled that the money
should be paid back to the Gambia government in due course.
Jallow was ordered to pay all costs including 90,000 Swiss francs in court
fees.
The fate of the $3m has now finally been decided in favour of the Gambian
government, but Gambian opposition leaders have pointed to other amounts
which also mysteriously vanished into foreign bank accounts at about the same
time.
Ouasinoe Darboe, the leader of the United Democratic Party, has frequently
questioned a further sum of $21.7m which were held at Citibank (Switzerland)
and Citibank (New York). Darboe alleges that these amounts were deposited by
Jallow in accounts under the name of the then military ruler Yahya Jammeh.
The money had originally come from Taiwan and President Jammeh had sent
Jallow to sign the loan agreement on behalf of the Republic of Gambia. The
loan was released in two instalments. The second valued at $30m was sent to
the Citibank in New York into a special development account.
At the same time the Governor of the Central Bank of Gambia was instructed to
write to the Taiwanese government to confirm receipt of the loan funds. Yet
it was clear that the funds had not arrived in the Gambia.
A manager of Credit Lyonnais Suisse, Phillipe Bidawid later confirmed that he
had discussed with Jallow how some of this money could be transferred into
personal accounts of the military rulers.
Though the Geneva court has dealt with the $3m, the fate of the still greater
amounts of Taiwanese loan money has still not been satisfactorily revealed.

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