Prosecutors in the United States have provided details of how Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her two businessmen-allies, Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko, lavished billions of naira on property and luxury items in the U.S. and United Kingdom.

The trio have, in the last two years, been at the centre of many investigations and court actions around management of Nigeria’s oil industry.

Last year, the Nigerian government filed for a court order for world-wide seizure of multi-billion naira asset linked to the two men, described as close allies of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke.

In a civil forfeiture notice filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, DoJ, on Friday, prosecutors narrated how the two businessmen allegedly conspired to bribe the former minister purchasing property worth millions of dollars in London for Mrs. Alison-Madueke and her family.

LAVISH LIFESTYLE

Prosecutors described the two men as financiers of the former minister’s lavish lifestyle’.
The two are accused of buying a total of four residential properties in and around London worth 11.45 million, and furnished them with furniture, artwork and other luxury items, the Financial Times reports.

In one day in May 2012, Mr. Aluko was said to have wired $461,500 and $262,091 to two furniture stores in Houston from a Swiss bank account, on behalf of Mrs. Alison-Madueke, the civic complaint claimed.


The bribe, according to prosecutors, was in exchange of $1.5 billion worth of oil deal awarded to two shell companies linked to the two men.

Prosecutors described the two companies as “unqualified” for the deal but were nonetheless given the contracts for sale of crude oil worth $1.5 billion.
The businessmen then allegedly plotted more shell companies to launder the proceeds through the United States.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported on how Mr. Omokore was quizzed by operatives of EFCC over allegations of fraud and diversion through his company, Atlantic Energy. Mr. Omokere was later charged to the court alongside his alleged accomplices.

COST OF BRIBERY

U.S. prosecutors are now moved to seize $144 million in asset linked the two men, comprising a 200-foot yacht and a Manhattan property one block from Central Park, describing them as fruits of an international bribery scheme.

Among the asset is Mr Aluko’s vessel, Galactica Star, described as “world’s largest fast displacement yacht”, along with condominium units in Manhattan and real estate in Southern California.

“The United States is not a safe haven for the proceeds of corruption,” Financial Times quoted acting assistant attorney-general Kenneth Blanco as saying. “If illicit funds are within the reach of the United States, we will seek to forfeit them and to return them to the victims from whom they were stolen.”

Keneking:
Now US wants $144mil

Jonathan sef

Ehiscotch:
Prosecutors in the United States
have provided details of how
Nigeria’s former minister of
petroleum, Diezani Alison-
Madueke, and her two
businessmen-allies, Jide Omokore
and Kola Aluko, lavished billions
of naira on property and luxury
items in the U.S. and United
Kingdom.
The trio have, in the last two years,
been at the centre of many
investigations and court actions
around management of Nigeria’s
oil industry.

Last year, the Nigerian
government filed for a court
order for world-wide seizure of
multi-billion naira asset linked to
the two men, described as close
allies of ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-
Madueke.

In a civil forfeiture notice filed by
the U.S. Department of Justice,
DoJ, on Friday, prosecutors
narrated how the two
businessmen allegedly conspired
to bribe the former minister
purchasing property worth
millions of dollars in London for
Mrs. Alison-Madueke and her
family.

LAVISH LIFESTYLE

Prosecutors described the two
men as financiers of the former
minister’s lavish lifestyle’.
The two are accused of buying a
total of four residential properties
in and around London worth 11.45
million, and furnished them with
furniture, artwork and other
luxury items, the Financial Times
reports .

In one day in May 2012, Mr. Aluko
was said to have wired $461,500
and $262,091 to two furniture
stores in Houston from a Swiss
bank account, on behalf of Mrs.
Alison-Madueke, the civic
complaint claimed.

The bribe, according to prosecutors, was in
exchange of $1.5 billion worth of oil deal
awarded to two shell companies linked to the
two men.
Prosecutors described the two companies as
“unqualified” for the deal but were nonetheless
given the contracts for sale of crude oil worth
$1.5 billion.
The businessmen then allegedly plotted more
shell companies to launder the proceeds
through the United States.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported on how Mr.
Omokore was quizzed by operatives of EFCC
over allegations of fraud and diversion through
his company, Atlantic Energy. Mr. Omokere
was later charged to the court alongside his
alleged accomplices.

COST OF BRIBERY

U.S. prosecutors are now moved to seize $144
million in asset linked the two men, comprising
a 200-foot yacht and a Manhattan property one
block from Central Park, describing them as
fruits of an international bribery scheme.
Among the asset is Mr Aluko’s vessel, Galactica
Star, described as “world’s largest fast
displacement yacht”, along with condominium
units in Manhattan and real estate in Southern
California.

“The United States is not a safe haven for the
proceeds of corruption,” Financial Times
quoted acting assistant attorney-general
Kenneth Blanco as saying. “If illicit funds are
within the reach of the United States, we will
seek to forfeit them and to return them to the
victims from whom they were stolen.”
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vingeophysicist:
rubbish no evidence.party politics!!!

vingeophysicist:
rubbish no evidence.party politics!!!

Keneking:
Now US wants $144mil
Jonathan sef

Ehiscotch:
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Ehiscotch:
"The United States is not a safe haven for the
proceeds of corruption,” Financial Times
quoted acting assistant attorney-general
Kenneth Blanco as saying. “If illicit funds are
within the reach of the United States, we will
seek to forfeit them and to return them to the
victims from whom they were stolen.”

vingeophysicist:
rubbish no evidence.party politics!!!

vingeophysicist:
rubbish no evidence.party politics!!!

Ehiscotch:


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brainpulse:
We will continue to sound and show it clear to the deaf and blind that GEJ ruined, stole and destroyed the economy of this country just like the prodigal son. Our country is surviving only by the grace of God.
If billions were and still been recovered that means trillions are still missing. God will continue to expose them.