UK Investigators In Nigeria, Join EFCC To Probe Diezani

The British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of
detectives to Nigeria who are now working with the operatives of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission to probe Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s
former Petroleum Minister, during the administration of ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan.

Findings by Sunday Punch revealed that the team of
investigators from the UK Police was drawn from the Seizures Organised Crimes
Agency.

A top operative of the EFCC, who spoke to one of Punch’s
correspondents on condition of anonymity on Saturday, said the SOCA team had
been involved in a discreet investigation of Alison-Madueke for two months
before they finally moved against her.

It will be recalled that the former petroleum minister left
Nigeria shortly before the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May
this year.