Friday, 2 October 2015
The ex-minister i mention earlier was DEIZANI MADUEKE
Immediate
past petroleum minister, Deizani Alison-Madueke, was on Friday arrested
in London by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency.
Investigations
revealed that the UK Police picked up Alison-Madueke on Friday in
connection with offences bordering on fraud and bribery.
The
Spokesman for the UK High Commission in Abuja, Joe Abuku, confirmed to
our correspondent that five persons were arrested by the agency.
He, however, did not disclose their identities.
It was
gathered that the Seizure Organised Crime Agency within the National
Crimes Agency of the UK arrested Deziani and are probing the allegations
against her.
It was
further learnt that Diezani was picked up by operatives of the SOCA at
the instance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which has
been discretely probing her.
The PUNCH
investigations revealed that the SOCA has a working agreement with the
EFCC in the area of investigation of allegations of financial crimes and
proceeds of such crimes.
A source
said, “It is true that the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.
Deziani has been arrested by the UK’s National Crimes Agency, not the
Metropolitan Police.
“There
is an agency within the National Crimes Agency called the Seizures
Organised Crimes Agency. She was actually arrested by operatives of SOCA
because the agency has a working agreement with the EFCC. We have been
cooperating with SOCA on a number issues.
“I can tell you that Diezani is being quizzed over allegations of bribery and fraud by the UK police.”
Investigations
revealed that the EFCC dispatched a team of crack investigators to the
residence of Alison-Madueke at Frederick Chiluba Avenue, Asokoro,
moments after the commission was alerted that the investigation had
commenced in the UK, where the ex-petroleum minister has been holed up
since leaving office in May.
It was learnt that the EFCC operatives were still combing her residence as of the time of filing this report.
A family relation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the arrest of Alison-Madueke to our correspondent on Friday.
Our
correspondent could not get the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC,
Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, to comment on the issue as repeated calls to his
mobile telephone line indicated that it was either switched off or in an
area outside network coverage.
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