Bawa Names Ex-Minister Who Laundered $37m

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Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has revealed the Minister who connived with a bank to launder $37 million.

Gatekeepers News reports that Bawa, during a presidential media briefing on Thursday, said he was making reference to the former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Gatekeepers News had earlier reported that the EFCC Chairman while featuring on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, narrated how the commission investigated a female minister, who he said, connived with the managing director of a bank to purchase a property worth $37 million.

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Upon mentioning his reference, the EFCC chairman said that Alison-Madueke will be prosecuted once she is in the country.

The anti-graft agency 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.

Ibrahim Magu, former EFCC chairman, had said Alison-Madueke stole “not less than $2.5 billion”.

The commission had also disclosed that it had secured the final forfeiture of over $80 million worth of properties owned by the former minister.