BREAKING: Diezani loses bid to recover seized $40m jewellery, iPhone
http://www.hrlnews.com/2019/09/breaking-diezani-loses-bid-to-recover.html
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the permanent
forfeiture of the 2,149 pieces of jewellery and a customised gold
iPhone, valued at $40m, recovered from the Abuja home of a former
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In a ruling on Tuesday, Justice Nicholas Nicholas Oweibo held that
Diezani, through her lawyer, Awa Kalu (SAN), failed to show cause why
the items should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had told the judge that
the jewellery and iPhone were reasonably suspected to be acquired with
fraud proceeds.
The anti-graft agency said the items were beyond Diezani’s legitimate earnings.
