According to Saharareporters;
"The British government, seize £27,000 on Monday, October 5, from the
ex-minister.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, reported that £5,000 and
$2000 were also seized by the NCA from Beatrice Agama, Diezani’s
mother.
According to a BBC report monitored in Abuja, the NCA had
approached the Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Marylebone Road,
London, and obtained the order to seize the said sum until April next
year.
The NCA is said to have applied for the seizure of the money in accordance with Section 295 of Proceeds of Crime Act 2012, POCA.
Vanguard learnt hat the seizure of the money was to enable the
anti-graft agency present it as evidence of corruption against the
former minister in the pending money laundering case that the body plans
to press against her and four other suspects now in London.
Some other top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, were said to be facing possible arrest and
extradition to the United Kingdom to face trial along with their former
boss because of the roles they allegedly played in fleecing the nation
of billions of petro-dollars."
Source: tori.ng
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