Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), says Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum
minister, laundered $37 million through real estate.
While featuring on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television
programme, on Tuesday, Bawa had narrated how the commission investigated a
female minister, who he said, connived with the managing director of a bank to
purchase a property worth $37 million.
The name of the minister was, however, not disclosed.
Speaking during the presidential media briefing on Thursday, Bawa said he was making reference to Alison-Madueke and that she will be prosecuted once she is in the country.
The anti-graft agency had filed charges of money laundering
against Alison-Madueke who left the country for the UK shortly before the
inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Ibrahim Magu, former EFCC chairman, had said Alison-Madueke
stole “not less than $2.5 billion”.
The commission had also disclosed that it had secured the
final forfeiture of over $80 million worth of properties owned by the former
minister.
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