The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it seized
wristwatches worth £2m from the wife of
the Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide
Omokore, and a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani
Alison-Madueke.
The anti-graft agency seized a wristwatch worth £1.4m from Omokore’s
wife, while a wristwatch worth £600,000 was seized from Alison-Madueke, a
source at the agency told one of our correspondents.
The source said the agency seized expensive jewellery and the
wristwatches during various raids on houses of some suspects on Banana Island,
Ikoyi, Lagos, and other places.
The source added that the items seized from the suspects would be
displayed to journalists in Nigeria.
The firm of Omokore, who was quizzed in January by the commission, was
one of the companies that allegedly received multi-billion dollars worth of
public assets without due process from the Jonathan administration.
The company, which was established in 2010, had reportedly not explored
any oil when it was curiously awarded controlling stakes in two lucrative oil
blocks, OML 30 and 34, for just over $50m each.
The deal, which was signed by Jonathan’s Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Alison- Madueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling
55 per cent stake
The former minister had been interrogated by the Metropolitan Police on
issues relating to money laundering.
The EFCC source said the commission had started analysing information
on Nigerians, including the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and
others mentioned in the Panama Paper leaks.
It was gathered that the commission had seized one hospital equipment
known as MRI, Medical Resonance Image, from a former Chief of Air Staff, Air
Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd). The equipment is worth N2.6bn.
The EFCC had previously recovered over N2.3bn cash from Amosu, while
properties worth over N1bn had been seized from him.
Source: Punch
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