Here Are Allegations Leveled Against Alison-Madueke
Former petroleum minister in Nigeria, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was
arrested by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency and was later
granted bail was charged of several allegations including; money
laundering, bribery.
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Here, is an excerpt of the allegations from VanguardNg below:
Under
her watch, dubious oil marketers stole trillions of naira of oil
subsidy money. She retained her position after the House of
Representatives investigated the scandal and indicted the minister.
Probes by independent audit firms, including the KPMG and
Pricewaterahousecoopers, confirmed billions of dollars of oil money were
missing, the most notable being $20 billion in 2014.
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Long
before her stint in the oil and gas sector, Alison-Madueke was
investigated by the Nigerian Senate on allegation she paid N30.9 billion
to contractors while she held office as transport minister. In 2009,
the Senate also indicted Mrs. Alison-Madueke and recommended her for
prosecution for allegedly transferring N1.2 billion into a private
account of a toll company without due process. The former minister
consistently denied any wrongdoing.
In June, after leaving office,
she rejected all allegations of embezzlement, saying she never stole
from Nigeria. In March 2014, the House of Representatives mandated its
Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the alleged squandering of
N10 billion over a two-year period on the arbitrary charter and
maintenance of a Challenger 850 aircraft for unofficial use by
Alison-Madueke.
Such act was said to contravene the “Fiscal
Responsibility Act and all other laws on fiscal discipline” Acting on
what it termed reliable evidence, the House said it learnt that
Alison-Madueke had allegedly sunk at least N3.120 billion into the
maintenance of a private jet dedicated to the service of herself and her
family.
A breakdown of the money, showed that the sum of 500,000
Euros (N130 million) was spent every month on the maintenance of the
airplane, which amounted to N3.120 billion for the two years in
question.
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