A seven-man investigative team of
the United Kingdom’s anti
corruption agency, the National
Crime Agency, has arrived Nigeria to
interrogate individuals suspected to
be allies of a former Petroleum
Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani
Alison-Madueke.
According to SaharaReporters, the
NCA team are in the country to quiz
several associates and accomplices
of the former petroleum minister.
The online medium reported that
the British detectives, comprising of
four women and three men, were in
the country as part of efforts to build
a solid case in order to begin the ex-
minister’s trial next year.
It stated that one of the ex-
minister’s allies being interrogated
by the UK detectives was Donald
Chidi Amamgbo, a California-based
lawyer and Jide Omokore, who is
currently on bail after the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission
arrested and charged him with fraud.


Amamgbo was reportedly detained
by the EFCC, and later granted
“administrative bail.”
The UK investigative team is also
expected to interrogate several oil
dealers who were close to Alison-
Madueke, and who played one role
or another in a web of international
financial crimes during the former
minister’s tenure.
“Our source revealed that UK
investigators were looking into
close to 20 cases against Mrs. Alison-
Madueke. However, the case that has
the most traction has to do with how
the former minister’s alleged used
of straw companies to launder
billions of dollars. Some of the
alleged laundered funds were used
to purchase 17 properties in the UK
and elsewhere,” the online
publication said.
It added that the oil dealers under
investigation reportedly offered
large payoffs to Alison-
Madueke for oil swap deals.
The payoffs were said to have been
wired to Amamgbo.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke is currently in
the UK undergoing treatment for
cancer.
The NCA had earlier confiscated
some funds from the former
minister, her mother, and the wife of
a Ghanaian businessman, Kevin
Okyere, who is also named in a
series of shady deals involving
Alison-Madueke.

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