$2.5bn Fraud: UK blocking Diezani’s arrest -Magu

Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, revealed that ex-Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison Madueke, is in protective custody in the UK hence efforts to arrest the fugitive ex-minister has always met a brick wall. Magu, therefore, begged the United Kingdom to extradite Mrs. Alison-Madueke, to Nigeria to account for an allegedly missing $2.5bn. Magu, who addressed journalists preparatory to the passing out parade of the EFCC trainees at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, alleged that the former minister stole Nigeria’s money. The EFCC boss…

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Court orders EFCC to bring Diezani home for trial

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission a deadline of March 2020 to have a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke extradited to Nigeria. The commission had in November 2018 filed 13 counts of money laundering against the ex-minister accusing her of unlawfully taking into her possession the sums of $39.7m and N3.32bn with which she allegedly bought choice properties in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt in Rivers State, while she was in office. When the matter…

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