United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency
secured the seizure of the sum of £27,000 (N8,155,164.37) in the case
involving the former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke at the
Westminster Magistrates Court, London.Sam Piranty, a
journalist with The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who is
monitoring the event tweeted updates from the proceedings..the former
Minister was not in court but her mother, Beatrice Agama and one Melanie
Spencer, were in court.
“Today at Westminster Magistrates Court an application for detention of cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act was made v Diezani“The application was made by the National Crime Agency #Nigeria”“This means that she, contrary to emails from the court, may not have had to attend today“Basically the NCA applied for an order that cash seized be detained #Nigeria“NCA have to apply on a cash seizure case within 48 hours so they must have found it recently #Nigeria“Or they found it earlier and this was a further application #Nigeria”“£27,000 was seized in the case vs Alison-Madueke and CASH detained until April 2016 #Nigeria”“Cash seized under Section 295 of proceeds of crime act until 5th April 2016 #Nigeria”
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