A Nigerian courtroom confiscated iv large housing complexes worth $7 1 G m (about N2.6 billion) inwards Lagos State, Rivers together with Abuja from erstwhile oil government minister Diezani Alison-Madueke accused of corruption on Tuesday every bit fraud investigators proceed to hook dorsum her fortune.
Lagos high courtroom approximate Abdulaziz Anka ordered erstwhile crude oil government minister Diezani Alison-Madueke to mitt over the developments located across Nigeria that were constitute to accept been purchased alongside suspect cash.
Nigeria’s anti-graft Economic together with Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) argued inwards courtroom that Alison-Madueke, along alongside her cousin Donald Chidi Amamgbo, had made the purchases through front end companies.
During a search of Amamgbo’s property, investigators too constitute documents indicating that he owned some eighteen companies together with belongings inwards United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with the USA — every bit good every bit Nigeria.
He told officers that he had registered the corporations inwards gild to concur belongings on Alison-Madueke’s behalf, the courtroom heard.
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One of Alison-Madueke's properties forfeited to the Nigerian government |
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One of Alison-Madueke's properties forfeited to the Nigerian government |
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One of Alison-Madueke's properties forfeited to the Nigerian government |
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One of Alison-Madueke's properties forfeited to the Nigerian government |
Amamgbo too revealed that Alison-Madueke had made mortgage payments worth to a greater extent than than $3.3 1 G m (2.8 1 G m euros) inwards cash.
Since leaving purpose inwards 2015, Alison-Madueke has been implicated inwards bribery, fraud, misuse of populace funds, together with coin laundering cases inwards Nigeria, Britain, Italy together with the United States.
The kickoff woman someone president of the global oil cartel OPEC — who was 1 of Africa’s most prominent woman someone politicians — has e'er denied the allegations, which bespeak billions of dollars syphoned from oil deals together with province accounts.
The ruling followed an application yesteryear the EFCC which before this calendar month successfully confiscated a $37-million luxury storey complex from the erstwhile official.
Alison-Madueke was appointed the country’s kickoff woman someone oil government minister yesteryear erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan inwards 2010.
She is currently on constabulary bail inwards London afterwards beingness arrested inwards connectedness alongside a British probe into international corruption together with coin laundering.
Alison-Madueke has fourteen days to appeal Tuesday’s ruling.
AFP