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Diezani Laundered $37m’ — Bawa Discloses
‘The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, laundered $37 million through real estate.
Bawa, while featuring on a Television programme, on Tuesday, narrated how she connived with the Managing Director of a bank to purchase a property worth $37 million but did not mention the name the minister.
Speaking during the presidential media briefing on Thursday, Bawa said the minister in question was Alison-Madueke whom would be prosecuted once she is in the country.
The EFCC had filed charges of money laundering against Alison-Madueke who left the country for the UK shortly before the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The commission had also disclosed that it had secured the final forfeiture of over $80 million worth of properties owned by the former minister.