National Crime Agency, NCA has given a profound reason while it applied for he seizure of a staggering sum of 27,000 pounds from the accused Diezani Alison-Madueke who is currently being investigated for trial in the United Kingdom for financial crimes alongside 4 other accomplices.
Diezani Alison-Madueke
Determined to press its case of money laundering against former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the British government, yesterday, seized £27,000 from the embattled ex-minister, who was granted conditional bail by the National Crime Agency, NCA.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, reported that £5,000 and $2000 were also seized by the NCA from Beatrice Agama, Diezani’s mother.
According to a BBC report monitored in Abuja, the NCA had approached the Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Marylebone Road, London, and obtained the order to seize the said sum until April next year.
The NCA is said to have applied for the seizure of the money in accordance with Section 295 of Proceeds of Crime Act 2012, POCA. In response, the court ruled that the money could be held for six months. But the NCA declined to comment on when and where the money was seized from the former Nigerian minister.
However, it was learned that the seizure of the money was to enable the anti-graft agency present it as evidence of corruption against the former minister in the pending money laundering case that the body plans to press against her and four other suspects now in London.
The quartet is believed to include a relative of the former minister and three oil barons.