Ex-Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke returns to the
Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in London to answer for money
laundering and bribery allegations.
She was first arraigned in the court last October.
Mrs
Alison-Madueke was arrested along with four others by the United
Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). She was granted bail and told to
come back on April 5, 2016, for a decision to be taken on the £27,000
seized cash and other charges made against her.
The
court ruled in October 2015 that her money can be held for six months
before she is arraigned. The court also order that she should remain in
London while investigations last.
The NCA, which leads UK law
enforcement’s fight to cut serious and organised crime, is working in
league with Nigeria's EFCC in the probe of the former minister.
The
NCA has found some of the ex-minister’s brothers and other business
partners complicit in a big money laundering saga. She was arrested with
her brothers.
