UK court seizes Dieziani’s £27,000

In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … .
The National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom on Monday secured the seizure of the sum of £27,000 (N8,155,164.37) from the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Reaources, Diezani Alison-Madueke at the Westminster Magistrates Court, London.

Sam Piranty, a journalist with The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), monitoring the case, disclosed this on his Twitter handle
He tweeted thus: “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”.

Read also: Diezani may not appear in court 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”
Though the embattled former minister was not in court, her mother, Beatrice Agama and one Melanie Spencer, were in court.

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