……… UK plans to extradite Alamieyeseigha
According to a BBC correspondent, Sam Piranty, the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke, was sighted at Westminster Magistrates Court, Central London on Monday as her corruption trials begin.
Piranty said Alison-Madueke was at the court at 10am, but could however not confirm if she has been charged.
“CONFIRMED Alison Diezani-Madueke was at Westminster magistrate’s court at 10 this morning,” he tweeted @sampiranty.
Piranty had earlier tweeted that the former Minister was at the Charring Cross Police Station from where she was apparently moved to the Westminster Court.
It will be recalled that last week Friday, the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke, and four others were arrested in London.
She was seen in the court premises with her mother, Beatrice Agama.
Meanwhile, a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepereye Alamieyeseigha, may soon be extradited to the United Kingdom to continue with his money laundering trial.
Alamieyeseigha, it will be recalled, jumped bail 10 years ago when he was smuggled out of London in mysterious circumstances.
He was arrested at London Heathrow Airport on September 15, 2005, but appeared in his village on November 21, 2015, having allegedly jumped bail.
Alamieyeseigha was granted pardon by the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, recently confirmed that the British Government would like to see Alamieyeseigha extradited to the United Kingdom to face the money laundering charges he abandoned in 2005.
Regarding Alison-Madueke here is confirmation she was in Court 10 this morning at 10am pic.twitter.com/T2epVbspLn
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015
FYI Alison-Madueke's mother Beatrice Agama in Westminster magistrates this morning #Nigeria pic.twitter.com/FBRJ6OhYCl
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015
Today at Westminster Magistrates Court an application for detention of cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act was made v Diezani
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015
Basically the NCA applied for an order that cash seized be detained #Nigeria
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015
NCA have to apply on a cash seizure case within 48 hours so they must have found it recently #Nigeria
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015
£27,000 was seized in the case vs Alison-Madueke and CASH detained until April 2016 #Nigeria
— Sam Piranty (@sampiranty) October 5, 2015