Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum,
Diezani Allison-Madueke, has been reportedly indicted for receiving a bribe, in
order to award contracts worth $1.5 billion.
According to Financial Times, Dieziani’s
assets, a 200-foot yacht and a Manhattan condominium worth $144 million, have
been seized by US prosecutors.
The report claims that from 2011 to 2015, two
Nigerians Kolawole Aluko and Olajide Omokore, allegedly conspired with others to
bribe Diezani.
“The United States is not a safe haven for the
proceeds of corruption.
“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,” US assistant attorney-general, Kenneth Blanco,
said.
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