The U.S. Justice Department on Friday filed a lawsuit seeking to recover assets that include a $50 million Manhattan apartment and an $80 million yacht that it said were bought using money generated from a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to a former Nigerian oil minister.

The civil lawsuit, filed in federal court in Houston, alleged that two Nigerian businessmen conspired with others to pay bribes to the minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who oversaw the African country’s state-owned oil company.

The lawsuit said that in return, Alison-Madueke steered lucrative contracts with a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp to companies owned by the two businessmen, Kolawole Akanni Aluko and Olajide Omokore.

Despite being unqualified and in some instances failing entirely to perform services under the contracts, these companies received more than $1.5 billion in revenues through the sale of crude oil, the lawsuit said.

The Justice Department said that Aluko and Okokore then laundered their illicit revenues through the United States and used the money to buy $144 million in assets including the Manhattan condominium and the $80 million yacht, the Galactica Star.

The condominium is located in One57, a skyscraper located near Central Park on a street in Midtown Manhattan that is known as “Billionaire’s Row.”

Acting Assistant Attorney General Blanco said in a statement that the case demonstrated the Justice Department’s commitment to trading and recovering corruption proceeds.

“The United States is not a safe haven for the proceeds of corruption,” he said.

Following a mortgage default, lender Banque Havilland SA launched foreclosure proceedings on the condominium in January. It is scheduled to be up for public auction on July 19, according to the lawsuit.

Alison-Madueke was charged with money laundering in Nigeria, the country’s financial crimes agency said in April. She previously denied to Reuters any wrongdoing when questioned about missing public funds and corruption allegations.

Lawyers for Aluko and Omokore could not be immediately identified. They are not defendants in the lawsuit, which is a civil forfeiture action.

The lawsuit was brought as part of Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which seeks the forfeiture of the proceeds of foreign corruption.

Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Additional reporting by Eric Beech in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler


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US is in effect recovering the money paid out in advance, to allow them to loot our money.

This is like giving money to gate man to allow you enter and rob a bank , and then years later when it emerged that the gateman is corrupt, you try to get back the bribe you gave that gate man, whilst holding on to the money the gate man allowed you to steal.
Imperialists are so clever!

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US is in effect recovering the money paid out in advance, to allow them to loot our money.

This is like giving money to gate man to allow you enter and rob a bank , and then years later when it emerged that the gateman is corrupt, you try to get back the bribe you gave that gate man, whilst holding on to the money the gate man allowed you to steal.
Imperialists are so clever!

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Most of the monikers listed here are core Buhari bigots and not detribalised Nigerians as l would like to believe..

I don't hate or dislike the president in anyway but l will rather dissociate myself from this group..

I remain a neutral detribalised Omoluaabi.....

GenBuhari:
US is in effect recovering the money paid out in advance, to allow them to loot our money.

This is like giving money to gate man to allow you enter and rob a bank , and then years later when it emerged that the gateman is corrupt, you try to get back the bribe you gave that gate man, whilst holding on to the money the gate man allowed you to steal.
Imperialists are so clever!

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Please with all due respect and decorum, can you please take off my monicker as part of the Detribalised Group. I cannot be part of falsehood, I cannot be part of a system that promotes lopsidedness in the way economic and political interests are been shared and expect me to keep quite..Nah

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Please with all due respect and decorum, can you please take off my monicker as part of the Detribalised Group. I cannot be part of falsehood, I cannot be part of a system that promotes lopsidedness in the way economic and political interests are been shared and expect me to keep quite..Nah

Is that what you think DAN stands for?
Have you seen any one or group without faults?
Is there no room for change in your dealings with people?
When we all agree to stand up for the truth no matter what, people will gradually adjust their attitude.

I respect your decision though.

Wonders shall never end! So many Nigerians are so mentally enslaved by white imperialists that they cannot bear to be told the truth about whites cheating us.

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Please with all due respect and decorum, can you please take off my monicker as part of the Detribalised Group. I cannot be part of falsehood, I cannot be part of a system that promotes lopsidedness in the way economic and political interests are been shared and expect me to keep quite..Nah