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Written by elombah.com   

Monday, 07 November 2011 20:09

Elombah.com can now confirm that the 'international politician' involved in a £20,000 bribery scandal involving the London Metropolitan Police and a private investigating agency is the Nigerian flamboyant politician, Mr James Ibori. Scotland Yard is investigating claims that its officers took bribes in return for leaking sensitive information from an ongoing criminal investigation. Anti-corruption detectives then launched a probe into allegations that

 serving Met officers were paid by private investigators working for "an international politician".

 

After four years of playing cat and mouse with Nigerian and British authorities, the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, was extradited from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, where he had sought refuge last year after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tried to put him on trial for stealing funds belonging to Delta State, where he was governor for eight years.  

 

On September 20 2011, a Southwark crown court in London ordered former Governor James Ibori of Delta State to be remanded in prison till February 13, 2012 when his trial will commence in a 14-count charge relating to money laundering preferred against him.

 

Elombah.com have been keeping tabs on developments concerning the serious allegations of Police corruption and James Ibori.

Fresh news is, following New Scotland Yard’s and The Metropolitan Police Authority’s own investigations into the allegations, the matter has been formally referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

 

A complaint only gets referred in the event of serious findings of misconduct on the part of a UK police officer(s). Enquiries conducted by elombah.com reveal that "substantial incontrovertible evidence supporting the allegations" was reviewed during the investigation.        

The UK media were unable to publish whilst New Scotland Yard’s investigation was being conducted. The IPCC referral is a serious development.

Follwing the referreal, the Evening Standard of 31 Oct 2011 revealed that "the high-profile figure" hired investigators to obtain information on a police investigation into his business affairs. The papers allege the London-based private detective agency then paid Met officers £20,000 for inside information that helped his defence lawyers.

 

Evening Standard did not reveal the name of the "high profile figure". 

 

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We received a complaint alleging that illegal payments had been made to police officers for information (unconnected to phone hacking or the media). The Directorate of Professional Standards referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and they have agreed to supervise a DPS investigation into the allegations."

 

The Met is already investigating officers for receiving illegal payments from the Murdoch media empire for private information on the royal family. Scotland Yard has been criticised for its closeness to News International and for failing to properly investigate phone-hacking at the News of the World. The scandal claimed the scalps of two senior Met officers, including Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson.

 

Tom Watson, the Labour MP who helped to expose the phone-hacking, said: "This is a very serious development and goes to the heart of the inappropriate relationships between the Met and [private investigators] that have emerged in recent months."

 

Documents sent to the Met and seen by the Evening Standard suggest the inquiry was launched after leaked invoices, seen by the newspaper, showed private investigators billed the politician for information from police. One £5,000 payment was allegedly made to a source for information "on forthcoming strategy to be deployed by police".

The Standard said this was a named Met police detective. Another invoice shows the agency billed the politician £700 for a four-hour meeting about "eliciting feedback, during earlier police interviews".

 

The politician allegedly hired a well-known City law firm to defend him from the police inquiries. In turn, it hired the private detective agency.

"The Company dealt with telephone/email interception, mobile interception, localised bugging/debugging, any type of record tracing, bank account details, security protection, and more importantly provided intelligence and information on the progress of police, activity," a whistleblower claims.

 

In the October 30 2011 report, the Evening Standard said they had been told the names of the alleged corrupt police officers, the international politician and the private detective agency but cannot name them for legal reasons.

 

However, last night a long term contact told elombah.com: "I can confirm that the 'international politician' has been identified as Mr James Ibori. There will be breaking news from the UK media now that publication can proceed. Looks like a lot of dirty laundry is going to come out. Quite ironic given the original allegations against the flamboyant Mr Ibori are Money Laundering!"

Ibori is not the only foreigner connected with the scandal.

According to another report by Elizabeth Jennings (Freelance Journalist) sent to elombah.com, " It is believed that one of the cases includes the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into the Tchenguiz Brothers, another relates to a high profile African politician, and another to a wealthy foreign businessman facing extradition proceedings. This will be another shocking development into this ever expanding investigation, which seems to be developing with each day."

The document entitled, METROPOLITAN POLICE CORRUPTION “INSTITIUTIONALISED AND ENDEMIC”- FRESH CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS TO EXPAND OPERATION ELVEDEN AS ALLEGATION AFTER ALLEGATION OF POLICE CORRUPTION EMERGE, OPERATIONS SUCH AS “WEETING, ELVEDEN AND TULETA”, The Metropolitan Police was said to be considering whether Operation Eleveden should now include yet a further investigation into illegal cash payments made to serving Metropolitan Police officers that are in charge of investigating a number of high profile criminal cases involving wealthy individuals. 

 

That decision was made last moth as a team of anti-corruption officers are now looking into allegations that a private detective agency based in London is understood to have made significant illegal cash payments to serving Metropolitan Police detectives and HMRC officers in a number of high profile criminal and revenue cases. 

 

To be continued,

 

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