Abdulrasheed Bawa said at least 80 properties valued at $80m had also been seized.
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Nigeria anti-graft chief ‘recovers $153m stolen funds’
Nigeria’s new anti-corruption chief on Tuesday, May 11, announced that $153m (£108m) had been recovered from the country’s former oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke who fled to the UK in 2015, the Vanguard news site reports.
Former oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke
“We are looking forward to the time we will, maybe, have her in the country, and, of course, review things and see what will happen going forward. The case has certainly not been abandoned,” Mr Bawa said.
He told journalists that he was ready to leave his job as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission if “anyone made him do anything illegal”.
Ms Alison-Madueke was an oil minister between 2010 and 2015.
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She denied wrongdoing when it was alleged that $20bn of oil money had gone missing when she was in office.
That accusation was made by Nigeria’s central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in February 2014. Mr Sanusi was sacked soon after, accused of financial recklessness himself.
Credit: BBC
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