The probe of the former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has continued in the United Kingdom just as a large amount of money has been seized from the embattled ex-Minister.
Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke
Determined to press on with its money laundering charges against the embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the British government, seized £27,000 on Monday, October 5, from the ex-minister.
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.
Vanguard learnt hat 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.
Some other top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, were said to be facing possible arrest and extradition to the United Kingdom to face trial along with their former boss because of the roles they allegedly played in fleecing the nation of billions of petro-dollars.