Nigerian judge orders confiscation of former oil minister’s penthouses
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Read < 1minuteNigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke answers to journalists during the 163rd meeting of the OPEC conference (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) in Vienna, on May 31, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN
A Nigerian judge has ordered the confiscation of two multi-million-dollar penthouses in the latest seizure of assets linked to the former oil minister.
Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was also the first female president of OPEC served under former president Goodluck Jonathan until 2015.
She has been linked to a string of money laundering and bribery cases and investigations in several countries.
Alison-Madueke was arrested in London in October 2015 as part of a British investigation into international corruption and remains on bail.
The 57-year-old is one of the highest profile figures from the former administration to be targeted as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign.
