And it gets worse for Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
On Saturday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) had announced on its website that it commenced the probe of the eye-candy Diezani in 2013; indicating that her trial and arrest predate the Buhari administration.
“The investigation commenced in 2013 under the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and transferred to the NCA earlier this year (2015). The International Corruption Unit (ICU) investigates bribery of foreign public officials by individuals or companies from the UK and money laundering by corrupt foreign officials and their associates,” the UK based NCA wrote on its site.
The UK crime agency added that the ICU would also trace and recover the proceeds of Alison-Madueke’s alleged corruption and support Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies with international anti-corruption investigations.
To aid the locally based Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in reining in the most powerful federal minister in the last dispensation, the British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of detectives to Nigeria, reports The Punch.
The team of investigators from the UK Police was drawn from the Seizures Organised Crimes Agency (SOCA).
A top operative of the EFCC told The Punch that the SOCA team had been involved in a discreet investigation of Alison-Madueke for two months before they finally moved against her.
The EFCC Subsidy Unit (SU) team against Diezani was constituted in August 2015 by the Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, Ibrahim Lamorde, to investigate her dealings and those of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which she oversaw.
Recall that the EFCC team had ransacked Diezani’s Asokoro Abuja residence for hours last Friday. Unable to gain access through the main entrance, the EFCC team with the assistance of the security guards manning Diezani’s posh apartment, helped themselves through the window.
They found the keys lying somewhere inside the apartment a lot later. Their raid yielded vital documents which will be used in the prosecution of the erstwhile minister.
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