Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueze, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and stashed in three banks.
Justice Hassan gave the order while hearing an ex-parte application by the EFCC seeking the temporary forfeiture of the funds allegedly stolen by the former Minister.
The court head that out of the allegedly stolen $153.3m, N23,446, 300,000 was reportedly stashed in Sterling Bank Plc,…
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