A federal high court in Abuja has
threatened to strike out fraud charges brought against Diezani Alison-Madueke,
former minister of petroleum resources, by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC).
Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge, issued
the threat on Tuesday at the mention of the case by Farouk Abdallah, the
prosecution lawyer, over the continued absence of the accused.
Abdallah said the federal
government was having challenges effecting the former minister’s extradition.
He said it was necessary to keep
the case alive for the extradition process to be successful.
Alison-Madueke is facing charges
of money laundering.
She left the country for the UK
shortly before the inception of the Buhari administration.
In 2017, a federal high court in
Lagos ordered the forfeiture of N7.6 billion allegedly linked to her to the federal
government.
In November 2018, the EFCC
started a process to extradite the former minister, and in the next month, the
international police issued a warrant for her arrest following a request by the
government.
Alison-Madueke is also being
investigated in the UK for alleged financial impropriety.
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