See list of mansions under EFCC probe in US, UK allegedly owned by corrupt Nigerians

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is now focusing its radar on some mansions, in highbrow areas of the United States and United Kingdom allegedly acquired with illicit funds by Nigerians.

The agency believes the properties may be owned former Nigerian ministers and governors who seem to have perfected a means of stashing their loot abroad under fictitious names, or using fronts.

A source at the agency revealed that the properties were traced to funds from the arms procurement funds, as well as the election bribe money said to have been given out by a former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

According to the source, a number of heads of parastatals, and businessmen were also found to have benefitted from the loot, also stashing their share abroad by acquiring property in the foreign countries through corporate entities.

He said that the agency is slao following up on some properties that are linked to the illicit funds in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Switzerland, Russia, South Africa, France and even Mali.

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He said that efforts were on to seize the identified properties, as the EFCC is working with the appropriate authorities in those countries to gather enough evidence to show that they are proceeds of graft.
Some of the houses under investigation include:
· 93b Shirehall Park, London, NW42QU

· 50 Tenterden Grove, NW41TH

· 22 Parkwood, St. Edmunds Terrace, St John’s Wood, London, NW8 7QQ

· 67 Wades Hill, Winchmore Hill, London, N21 1AU

· 27 Tavistock Square, Holburn, London, WC1H 9HH

· 1220 West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland Zip Code of 20910)

· 11711 Scooter Lane, Fairfax, VA 22030

· 4227 Summit Manor Ct, Fairfax, VA 22033

· 13116 Silver Maple Ct, Bowie, MD 20715, Maryland

· A $8.6 million duplex on Fifth Avenue in New York

· Catonale 17, 6948 Porza in Tocina (Geneva, Switzerland)

· 775 Sarbonne Road, Los Angeles

· 952 North Alphine Drive, Los Angeles

· 815 Cima Del Mundo, Los Angeles

· 1049 Fifth Avenue, New York

· 1948 & 1952 Tollis Avenue, Santa Barbara

· 157 West 57th Street, New York, 4100 Le Reve, Dubai

· Grove End Road, London and Colina D’oro, Montagnola, Switzerland

 

 

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