THERE were indications on Monday that former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke got into trouble with the London Police after she decided to buy a property at Hyde Parks using her
mother as a proxy. The property is said to worth over £10 million.
Meanwhile, the the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency has secured the seizure of the sum of £27,000 (N8,155,164.37) in the case involving the former Petroleum Minister at the Westminster Magistrates Court, London.
This is according to Sam Piranty, a journalist with The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who is monitoring the event. The following are from his Twitter handle
“Today at Westminster Magistrates Court an application for detention of cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act was made v Diezani”
“The application was made by the National Crime Agency #Nigeria”
Westminster Magistrate Court, where former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alision-Madueke was expected to be charged by the British Crime Agency
“This means that she, contrary to emails from the court, may not have had to attend today”.
“Basically the NCA applied for an order that cash seized be detained #Nigeria”
“NCA have to apply on a cash seizure case within 48 hours so they must have found it recently #Nigeria”
“Or they found it earlier and this was a further application #Nigeria”
“£27,000 was seized in the case vs Alison-Madueke and CASH detained until April 2016 #Nigeria”
“Cash seized under Section 295 of proceeds of crime act until 5th April 2016 #Nigeria”
As earlier reported, the former Minister was not in court but her mother, Beatrice Agama and one Melanie Spencer, were in court.
It will be recalled that Mrs fAlison-Madueke, was arrested on Friday with four other people by the International Corruption Unit (ICU) of the UK’s National Crimes Agency. She was however granted bail after she had been detained for several hours. According to London Police she will be charged to court for money laundering.