THERE were indications on Monday on how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and a former Managing Director of a parastatal under the NNPC got themselves into trouble with the police in the United Kingdom. The PUNCH learnt that the purchase of houses each in London by the former minister and the sacked NNPC top shot had sent the police investigators after them since 2013. Alison-Madueke and the ex-MD had bought a house each in London through a mortgage but the two were said to have attracted suspicion when they offered to pay huge sum to clear the mortgage on the properties. A source said the ex-minister’s house cost £12.5m. The source was however silent on the cost of the house bought by the former MD of the subsidiary of the NNPC. It was learnt that the UK’s National Crimes Agency had dispatched a team to Abuja for an investigation into the incomes of the affected public officers because of the huge amount of money that was being paid steadily to defray the amount on the mortgage. The source explained that the police suspected that the mortgaged London properties might have been serviced with laundered money from the Government of Nigeria. The source said, “This particular investigation did not originate from Nigeria. I can tell you that this is different from the investigation being conducted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission into the financial operations of the NNPC under Alison-Madueke. “This is a strictly UK investigation and it has to do with the procurement of a property in the UK for £12.5m through a mortgage arrangement in London. “The UK authorities became suspicious when they realised that the agreed monthly amount for the mortgage was too high for the income of a public official without other sources of income. “You know the (UK) people; they kept quiet when the whole arrangement was going on in 2013. They allowed the funds to go into their economy before they moved in against them with the intent to seize the properties. “She was not the only person that bought the properties. The other guy, a close ally from the NNPC also bought a house in London. These are the issues the UK police are investigating.” The investigation, which commenced in 2013 climaxed Friday last week with the arrest of Alison-Madueke and four others by the UK police for alleged fraud. The EFCC raided the residence of the ex- minister at Asokoro same day she was arrested in the UK. Although the raid did not yield any huge financial recovery contrary to media reports, the operatives from the Subsidy Unit of the EFCC carted away several documents from the residence. The EFCC operatives, who insisted that only N1.2m was recovered from the Asokoro residence of the minister, said that the files moved away from her house were being analysed. When contacted, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, on Monday declined to comment on the Alison-Madueke saga. Uwujaren said he did not know anything about the ex-minister’s case. Meanwhile, the British National Crime Agency on Monday obtained court permission to temporarily seize £27,000 (N8.078m) from a former petroleum resources minister, Diezani Alison- Madueke, Reuters reports. The ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s oil minister between 2010 and 2015 and her cohorts were arrested in London last Friday and charged with money laundring offences. Reuters quoted an administrative officer at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court as saying on Monday that the NCA had applied to the court for an order to seize various sums of money in relation to Alison-Madueke and two other women for up to six months. The administrative officer did not provide any information on the link between the three women. The NCA had on Friday issued a short statement saying its International Corruption Unit had arrested five people in London as part of an inquiry into suspected bribery and money laundering offences. The NCA did not name those arrested but said all five had been released on conditional police bail, pending further investigations in Britain and overseas. It said the investigation had started in 2013. But the Federal Government through presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, had confirmed late on Sunday the arrest of the former minister and that “the government of Nigeria is collaborating with the UK authority in the investigations and her trial.”


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All these "sources"... Pesin go read newspaper finish come carry the news twist am like say Na him do the investigation

Ok

But it is absolutely necessary to investigate the culpability of our banks and bankers too. All these alleged stolen funds get wired through Nigerian banks yet no one is exposing the bankers who act as conduit for moving the cash outside!!

I'm beginning to think all our corrupt politicians should be tried in the UK since ours are just terribly corrupt to put a guilty politician behind bars.

On Diezani's issue, she should be serviced with 15-20 years since she serviced her mortgaged house with our money.

Now I'm beginning to understand why Patience Jonathan said "I don't want to serve my husband food in prison". Nigeria and the UK should not just stop at the Hyde house investigation. They should beam more light under the skirt of Alison-Madueke to try those who stole from the Nation's coffer as well, be it her family, friends, former ministers, former first lady, and even the president. If NOI is implicated as well, she should resign from wherever she is and face the law. No one should be spared.

Indeed, "man's greed knows no bounds"

Cc: lalasticlala

UK!
Please do the needful!

A 3.5bn house, na inside she plan her burial?

Give us pictures and address, speculation in just ejaculashun for lying liars masturbations

Trust UK so they investigate and find out it was money laundering they must give us all tha money back pronto not hold it for decades cause Auntie Ngozi is working in Private sector and can no longer be involved with hunting the stolen money.
If it is true she should be punished! To be honest I never really like her at all her husband came and trained her up from nothing and she has disgraced him in ways I won't mention.

Greedy woman. So glad that her cup is finally full. Most Nigerians live in shanties and she went about acquiring a single house for 3.7billion. That woman should rot in jail.