2015 Election: I Truly Collected N30m BRIBE From Diezani To Rig For Jonathan – INEC Official Confesses …returns N5m

An official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Christian Nwosu, has admitted collecting the sum of N30 million from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to compromise the 2015 general elections.

He made the confession yesterday during his arraignment alongside two other INEC staff before Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Nwosu was arraigned by the anti-graft agency alongside Yisa Adedoyin and Tijani Bashir on a seven- count charge of conspiracy, acceptance of gratification and money laundering to the tune of N264,880,000 from the former minister.

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Nwosu received the N30 million as Director and Administrative Secretary, INEC, Kwara State. Alison-Madueke, who was said to be at large, was also charged with them. The three INEC staff were accused of taking bribe from the former minister on March 27, 2015, to compromise the elections. Count one of the charges reads:

“That you, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke (still at large), Christian Nwosu, Yisa Olanrewaju Adedoyin and Tijani Bashir, on or about the 27th day of March, 2015 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired among yourselves to directly take possession of N264,880,000 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: gratification and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2002 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.”

Another count reads: “That you, Christian Nwosu on or about the 27th day of March, 2015 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, directly used the sum of N30,000,000 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: gratification and you hereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2)(a) of the money laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.” When the charge was read to the three accused persons, the first defendant, Nwosu, owned up to receiving N30 million as alleged by the anti-graft agency.

The other two defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to all the counts. Addressing the court on Nwosu’s admittance, EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, told Justice Idris that the accused person had, prior to his arraignment, opted to enter into plea bargain with the commission. Oyedepo added that Nwosu had already returned N5 million to the commission, while he had also surrendered the title document of a landed property he purchased for N25 million in Delta State.

Reviewing the facts of Nwosu’s case, Oyedepo informed the court that the EFCC acted on an intelligence report that Diezani had stashed $115 million in a bank with a directive to the bank that the money should be changed to naira while part of it should be given to certain INEC officials in the run-up to the 2015 general elections. Oyedepo revealed that the N30 million traced to Nwosu was kept in a Hilux van in Ilorin. He added that Nwosu had also made confessional statement upon his invitation by the EFCC. Oyedepo said: “The first defendant also gave account of the properties he used the money to acquire. He brought the title documents to the EFCC office.

“Having demonstrated remorse and given useful information to aid the prosecution of the case, he has entered into an agreement to forfeit the properties to the Federal Government. The properties are listed in the paragraphs 1 and 2 of the plea bargain agreement.

“The EFCC has recovered the N5 million left from the first defendant, having spent N25 million to acquire properties.” Oyedepo later tendered Nwosu’s confessional statement and the document with which he acknowledged the receipt of the N30 million. The two documents were later admitted as exhibits by the court. Oyedepo later sought for Nwosu’s conviction by the court as charged in view of his plea and the evidence adduced.

Granting Oyedepo’s request, Justice Idris held: “In line with the plea of the defendant coupled with the facts and the exhibits tendered by the prosecutor, the defendant is hereby convicted as charged.” Nwosu’s lawyer, Mrs. Adaku Mbama, in her allocutus, however, pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy in deciding the fate of her client. Justice Idris has adjourned till Friday to sentence Nwosu.

The two other accused persons who pleaded not guilty were, however, admitted to bail of N50 million each with two sureties in like sum by the court. The sureties, according to the judge, must own landed property in Lagos and were to show evidence of three-year tax clearance. The defendants were equally directed by the judge to deposit their international passports with the court’s registrar. They were also to be remanded in prison custody pending when they would perfect their bail conditions.

In the first count, the EFCC alleged that Nwosu, Adedoyin and Bashir, in connivance with Diezani, took possession of N264.88 million, which they “ought to have reasonably known formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act, to wit: gratification.” The defendants were also said to have on March 27, 2015 made cash payment of N264.88 million without going through any financial institution. Adedoyin was said to have received a cash sum of N70.05 million from Bashir on March 27, 2015.

Bashir was said to have, on the same day, collected N64.88 million while Nwosu equally received and spent N30 million. The offences, according to the prosecution, are contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012, while the accused persons were also liable to be punished under Sections 15(3) and 16(2)(b) of the same Act.

EXPOSED: How Former Minister, Diezani Stole $153.3m Raw Cash From NNPC; Her Accomplices Revealed

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has provided details of its claim that a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, siphoned $153.3m from the Nigerian National Petroleum Commission.

In a nine-paragraph affidavit filed in support of the anti-graft agency’s ex parte application for the forfeiture of the funds, an EFCC investigator, Moses Awolusi, claimed that the anti-graft agency discovered through its investigations how sometime in December 2014 Diezani invited a former Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, to her office where they hatched the plan of how a cash sum of $153,310,000 would be moved from NNPC to Okonkwo to be saved for Diezani.

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According to Awolusi, Diezani instructed Okonkwo to ensure that the money was “neither credited into any known account nor captured in any transaction platforms” of Fidelity Bank.

Awolusi said Okonkwo accepted and implemented the deal leading to the movement of $153,310,000 from NNPC to Fidelity Bank.

He said two former Group Executive Directors of Finance and Account of NNPC, B.O.N. Otti and Stanley Lawson, helped Diezani to move the cash from NNPC, Abuja to the headquarters of Fidelity Bank in Lagos.

Awolusi said in a desperate bid to conceal the source of the money, Okonkwo, upon receiving it, instructed the Country Head of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Martin Izuogbe, to take $113,310,000 cash out of the money to the Executive Director, Commercial and Institutional Bank, Sterling Bank Plc, Lanre Adesanya, to keep.

He said the remaining $40m was taken in cash to the Executive Director, Public Sector Accountant, First Bank, Dauda Lawal, to keep.

The investigator said out of the $113,310,000 handed over to Adesanya, a sum of $108,310,000 was invested in an off balance sheet investment using Sterling Asset Management Trustees Limited.

He said the $108,310,000 was subsequently changed to N23,446, 300,000 and saved in Sterling Bank.

Awolusi said the EFCC had recovered the N23.4bn in draft and had registered it as an exhibit marked, EFCC 01.

The investigator said the EFCC had also recovered another $5m out of the money kept with the MD of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Herbert Wigwe.

He said the $5m was recovered in draft and had been registered as an exhibit marked, EFCC 02.

According to him, First Bank’s ED, Lawal, had converted the $40m kept with him to N9,080,000,000.

Awolusi said the EFCC had recovered that also in draft and registered it as Exhibit EFCC 03.

Moving the ex parte application on Friday, the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, urged Justice Hassan to order the temporary forfeiture of the funds to the Federal Government and to order Sterling Bank and Lawal, who were joined as defendants in the application, as well as any other interested parties, to appear in court within two weeks to show cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

Oyedepo, who said the application was brought pursuant to Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act No. 14, 2006 and Section 44(2)(‘) of the 1999 Constitution, said granting the application was in the best interest of justice.

After hearing him out, Justice Hassan granted the order and adjourned till January 24, 2016 for the respondents to appear in court to show cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

First Published by Punch Newspaper

THE UNTOLD: How Jonathan, Diezani, Adoke, Others Shared $1.3b In Malabu Oil Fraud—Italian Prosecutors

Sahara Reporters - An investigative report by Italian prosecutors has alleged that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Attorney Generals Mohammed Adoke and Bayo Ojo, former Minister of Defense and ex-National Security Adviser, Aliyu Gusau as well as numerous other senior government officials shared hundreds of millions of dollars. In an indictment obtained by SaharaReporters, Italian prosecutors alleged that Mr. Jonathan and several officials of his government as well as top corporate officials of international oil firms, Eni and Shell, met several times between 2010 and 2011 to seal the fraudulent Malabu deal and split a massive loot running into hundreds of millions between Nigerian government and public interests as well as corporate officials.

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The indictment shows that former Abacha-era Minister, Dauzia Loya Etete, better known as "Dan Etete" and his Malabu company were at the center of the scam that involved the sale of an oil bloc named OPL 245 he illicitly acquired in 1998. According to Italian prosecutors, Mr. Etete had engaged Zubelum Chukwuemeka Obi to source for buyers of the oil bloc. Subsequently, Italian oil giant, Eni, the parent of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company Ltd (NAOC) and Royal Dutch Shell, contracted to acquire 100 percent of the 245 oil block for a deal that totaled $1.3 billion. However, Italian prosecutors are alleging that much of the funds was set aside for fraudulent payments to Mr. Jonathan and other government officials as well as corporate executives working for Eni and Shell.

Apart from naming numerous officials of the global oil firms, the indictment also fingered Mr. Jonathan, Mr. Etete, Mrs. Alison-Madueke, Mr. Adoke, former NSA Gusau, Mr. Obi, Mr. Ojo, and Alhaji Abubakar as beneficiaries from the Malabu fraud.

Among the corporate players named in the Malabu deal are Paolo Scaroni, Eni’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, and Claudio Descalzi, the Managing Director of Eni’s Exploration and Production Division since July 2008. The indictment states that Mr. Scaroni “agreed to intermediation by Obi,” and was constantly informed by Mr. Descalzi of the progress of developments in the deal. In addition, he and Mr. Descalzi met then President Jonathan in person twice, “both during the finalization of the agreements (13 August 2010) and at the final stage, during an electoral campaign rally in Nigeria on 22 February 2011.”

According to the indictment, Mr. Descalzi maintained steady contact with Mr. Obi and two key Eni employees in Nigeria, Roberto Casula and Vincenzo Armanna, who helped coordinate a deal in which Mr. Jonathan and other senior officials of his government would receive illegal commissions in exchange for approving the Malabu oil deal. Mr. Descalzi also coordinated with his Shell counterpart, Malcolm Brinded, on the $1.3 billion price tag for the oil block.

Other Eni and Shell officials also attended meetings with President Jonathan in Abuja on August 13, 2010 regarding the OPL245 deal and, again, on February 22, 2011. In addition, the indictment states that the two oil companies’ executives attended meetings from November 18 to 25, 2010, at Mr. Adoke’s offices in Abuja. Apart from Mr. Adoke, Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar also known as "AAA Oil" was also present at the meetings during which, according to Italian prosecutors, “the financial conditions of the deal (1.3 billion) were agreed.”

The firms’ executives also met with Mr. Dan Etete in Milan, Italy from November 30 to December 1, 2010 and finalized issues “relating to the commissions.” Mr. Armanna, the Senior Advisor of Nigerian Agip Oil Company Ltd and as Eni Vice President for upstream sub-Saharan activities, reportedly played a major role in the scam. The indictment accuses him of maintaining contact with Mr. Obi and Mr. Etete, even though he was “fully aware of the destination of most of the sums paid by Eni to the political sponsors of the operation” and that some executives of Eni and Shell, himself included, were to receive “significant sums” from the deal. He is also accused of coordinating the fraudulent deal with his Shell counterpart, Peter Robinson, and hosting meetings at his residence in Nigeria with Shell executives. Mr. Armanna reportedly “supervised the Eni negotiating team's drafting of the ‘resolution agreements.’” In addition, he met with Mr. Adoke numerous times to discuss the illicit transfers.

Italian prosecutors accuse Mr. Armanna of facilitating the Nigerian government’s active role in the Malabu deal, including the payment “of €1,092,040,000 intended for Etete, in addition to the ‘signature bonus’ of $207,960,000.” The indictment states that he coordinated with Gianfranco Falcioni and Bayo Ojo to transfer funds paid by Eni to the account of the Nigerian government at JP Morgan Chase London. As part of his reward, Mr. Armanna “subsequently received from Bayo Ojo the sum of €917,952 with the false payment reference of ‘Armanna inheritance.’”

The indictment states that, on October 30, 2010, Ciro Antonio Pagano, the NAE’s Managing Director, signed his firm’s offer to Raffeisen Bank, Obi's advisor, for the company’s 100% acquisition of Malabu’s “participating interest” in OPL 245. The payments comprised $207,960,000 to the Nigerian government as the signature bonus and $1,053,000,000 directly to Malabu.

The indictment names Mr. Obi as shareholder in the company Energy Venture Partners Ltd (EVP), and as the person “assigned by Etete to find a buyer for block 245.” Italian prosecutors allege that Mr. Obi agreed with Etete that the “so-called ‘excess price’ – between the sum that Eni/NAE was undertaking to pay and the amount accepted by Etete, would be withheld by Obi, with the expectation that the aforementioned premium would be distributed among Mr. Obi, his sponsors, Di Nardo and Bisignani, Eni and Shell executives and “Nigerian government officials, in particular the Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke.”

According to the indictment, Mr. Obi having met several times with Attorney General Adoke, and maintained direct relations with the AGF as well as with “persons connected to him, specifically Roland Ewubare and Oghogo Akpata.” He also maintained relations with Ms. Alison-Madueke and NSA Gusau, said the indictment.

The document also accuses Ednan Tofik Ogly Agaev of agreeing to a fee of 6% for his work as intermediary between Mr. Etete and Shell. It said Mr. Agaev, a Russian and former MI6 operative, subsequently worked for Shell as Senior Business Advisor and Strategic Investment Advisor. He is accused of meeting NSA Aliyu Gusau “on a number of occasions and having obtained information from him on the expectations of President Jonathan and other members of the government.”

The document describes Mr. Etete as “the fraudulent holder of the OPL245 exploration license since 1998.” He is also accused of “having received authorization from Minister of Petroleum Alison-Madueke to dispose of 100% of OPL245, following the decision of President Jonathan.” In addition, he “conducted confidential negotiations with Aliyu Abubakar, who acted as an agent of Goodluck Jonathan,” and “accepted, under government pressure, the total sum of $1.3 billion, established by Eni and Shell.”

Italian prosecutors also reported that Mr. Etete “received $801.5 million from the Nigerian government under the FGN Resolution Agreement, and having transferred to Abubakar Aliyu, directly or through companies attributable to him, funds of approximately $520 million, intended to be paid to President Jonathan, members of the government and other Nigerian government officials.”

The indictment also states that the Malabu deal involved an agreement that Dan Etete would use much of the funds from the sale of the oil bloc “for his own benefit and that of a large number of other beneficiaries to purchase property, aeroplanes, armored cars, etc.).”

The indictment added that “President Goodluck Jonathan and other members of the Nigerian government in office at the time, including Mrs. Alison-Madueke, Attorney General Muhammed Bello Adoke, National Security Advisor Aliyu Gusau, a member of the House of Representatives, Umar Bature, former Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah, and “holders of influence over President Jonathan and other members of the government” received huge payoffs from the Malabu deal.

Italian Prosecutor's Office document detailing how GEJ and others were paid off in Malabu oil block dealCredit: Sahara Reporters Media

Italian Prosecutor's Office document detailing how GEJ and others were paid off in Malabu oil block dealCredit: Sahara Reporters Media

Italian Prosecutor's Office document detailing how GEJ and others were paid off in Malabu oil block dealCredit: Sahara Reporters Media

Diezani Caught In Another N4b Hotel Fraud With A Former Governor

Detectives have uncovered another multi-billion naira transaction believed to have been carried out by former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing a N4billion hotel deal between Mrs. Alison-Madueke and a former military administrator, whose identity is yet to be released “so as to protect the investigation”.

The hotel may be placed under Interim Forfeiture as soon as the preliminary investigation is concluded, The Nation learnt.

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But detectives of the anti-graft agency have secured the relevant papers on the hotel valued at N4billion

They would rather follow through the case than make a refund, a source said.

According to the anti-graft agency, the hotel was one of the five being investigated in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

It was learnt that the interim report of the team indicated “a strongly suspected hotel purchase deal” between the ex-minister and the former military administrator.

An EFCC source said: “We have been able to link the N4 billion hotel in Port Harcourt to the ex-minister. We are probing alleged sales deal between her and a former military administrator.

“We have been able to ascertain the value of the hotel. But we are gradually tracking how the deal was carried out including verification of bank details and transactions by all those involved.

“Some of these deals we are unearthing were carried out in layers in order to shield them away from anti-corruption agencies. But we are cracking them all.”

The source added: “For strategic reasons, we will not reveal the identities of the ex-MILAD and others connected with the deal at this stage of investigation.

“But very soon, the transactions will be made known to the public. Do not forget, we have four other properties under surveillance.”

About two weeks ago, another asset of the ex-minister in Abuja, allegedly worth over N500million, was confiscated pending her trial.

The anti-graft agency had earlier seized a mansion worth N3.58billion from the ex-minister, bringing the haul in Abuja to about N4.08billion

With the latest tracking of the hotel in question in Port Harcourt, the properties allegedly linked to the ex-minister are worth about N8.08billion.

Source: The Nation

Document Signed By Diezani Exposes Buhari's Minister; Dambazau, Buratai Embezzle Billions From NNPC, Others

Sahara Reporters - Fresh evidence of industrial-scale corruption in the military uncovered by SaharaReporters shows that huge sums of money from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the National Petroleum Investment Services (NAPIMS) were funnelled into military/security operations in the restive Niger Delta in the past 13 years, with none of it accounted for.

A document dated  April, 30 2010, exclusively obtained by this online news medium and signed by Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was at the time Petroleum Resources Minister, shows that eye-watering amounts went to each of the armed forces and the police under the scheme. 

Entitled "Payments On Behalf Of Federal Government Re: Logistics Support For Security Operations In The Niger Delta From 2003 To Date," it was addressed by the Minister to Mr. Goodluck Jonathan who was at the time of the document Nigeria’s Acting president.

"We wish to apprise Your Excellency that between 2006 and 2007, the sum of $745million was approved for the Arms of Services and the Nigerian Police Force for funding of security expenses in the Niger Delta," states the document in its opening line.

The approved sum, she stated, was sourced from NAPIMS JV Cash Call budget and Federal Government dividends from NLNG, and was utilized.

She proceeded to give a breakdown of how much was given to each arm of service and the police.

According to the document:

$220million was approved for the Army;

$185million was approved for the Nigerian Air Force;

$160million was approved for the Nigerian Navy got; and

$180million for the Nigeria Police Force

For the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years, a total of $400million from the NAPIMS JV Cash Call budgets was also appropriated for security in the Niger Delta.

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The document revealed that a total of $221.171million was expended on security in the oil-bearing region, as follows:

$46.8million to the Defence Intelligence Agency for logistics for security;

$158.7million to the Navy for patrol boats; and

$11.1million to the Presidential Implementation Committee on Maritime Security and Safety (PICOMSS).  That committee was eventually scrapped.

This, revealed the document, left a balance of $178.83million appropriated in 2008 and 2009. 

Despite the huge cash splash, Alison-Madueke went on to make additional requests totaling $154.11million, and yet another, of $35.75million. The additional requests, said the Minister in the document, were already with the NNPC awaiting Jonathan's approval for payment.

Broken down the Army made an additional request of $48.75million; the Nigeria Police Force, $15.70million; and PICOMSS, $86.66million.  Of the $35.75million also requested by the Minister, and captured as "commitments from the Arms of Service", $5.34million was to go to the Army, 0.07million to the Police, $7.29million to the Navy and $23.05million to the Police.

Before former president Jonathan was voted out of office last year, there were loud calls for an investigation into defence and security spending, with some of those making the calls asking for an extension of the demanded probe to the time of his predecessor, former president Umaru Yar'Adua.

The widespread belief was that there was grand theft while Yar'Adua, who later died, was incapacitated by ill-health. Under Yar'Adua, the Chief of Army Staff was General Abdurahaman Bello Dambazzau, who is currently the country's Interior Minister. Dambazzau, who was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari last August, has had his name mentioned in connection with the financial malfeasance that has dogged the military over the years.

Bizarrely, his name and that of General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, current Chief of Army Staff, are missing from the list of those affected by the Federal Government probe into defence spending, prompting critics to accuse Buhari of favouritism.

The exclusion of Dambazzau and Buratai from the list has fuelled criticisms of the probe.  Notable among the critics is Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, who has challenged Nigerians to demand the release of the authentic report of the Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

He described the Federal Government's claim that the probe panel only looked into procurement and contracts awarded by the military between 2011-2015 because documents related to procurement from 2007 to 2010 were unavailable as a clear indication of Buhari's support for corruption.

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, the governor said, “There are many petitions relating to defence from 2007 that are been discarded, the question is why?

“Buhari’s’ Minister of Interior, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) was Chief of Army Staff between 2008 and 2010 and the current Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Tukur Buratai, served as Director of Procurement, Defence Headquarters, from 2012 till May 2015.

“It is a fact that the committee in its terms of reference said it queried all procurement from 2007 to 2015.

"Even the press release issued was titled "Third Interim Report of the Presidential Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement from 2007 to 2015," Fayose sneered.

The governor also pointed out that the first paragraph of the committee report indicated that it used 2007-2015 as a reference, stressing that the committee "analysed procurement contracts awarded by or for the Nigerian Army between 2007 and 2015."

COAS Buratai was recently exposed by SaharaReporters as the owner of two luxury apartments, worth $1.5million, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  He claimed to have bought them from “personal savings.”

Following strident nationwide criticism, the Federal Government then announced its approval of further investigations into the purchase of military hardware and weaponry from 2007. Among the subjects of a further probe, disclosed the panel handling the investigation, are two former Chiefs of Army Staff, Generals Anthony Ihiejirika and KTJ Minimah; former Foreign Affairs Minister Nurudeed Mohammed; and three former Defence Ministry permanent secretaries

SEIZED, Diezani's $20m House, Jewelries, View Photos & Video; You'll Cry Profusely For Nigeria

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says its fight against corruption has led to the recovery of a house allegedly owned by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. 

The house is located in Asokoro area of the FCT, Abuja and is reported to be worth $18 million with furnishings worth $2million and a bulletproof gym. 

The anti-graft agency showed the recovered house in a new interview with Al Jazeerah. 

Also displayed in a video coverage were jewelries and monies reportedly recovered from corrupt government officials. 

Speaking during the interview, the EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu said, “We have been able to take on a lot of big shots that were hitherto untouchable in the three arms of the military, political class. We have recorded 164 convictions in just one year.” 

He, however, denied claims that the fight against corruption was politically motivated, saying, “No, not my EFCC, not the EFCC of today. We are not politicized. If there is an allegation against anybody, we will go after them. 

Culled from Daily Post

Ex-Gov. Chime In EFCC Net, Quizzed Over N450m Share Of Diezani's $115m Bribe For Election Result

The anti-graft agency has beamed its searchlight on ex-governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime over the ongoing investigation of the $115 million campaign funds shared by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke .

News Punch gathered from sources at the EFCC, that Chime, who reported at the Enugu zonal office of the antigraft agency, was asked to explain his alleged role in the disbursement of N450 million said to have been sent to the state. 

One of the sources, sources, who spoke in confidence, said the former governor, in his statement, denied being “personally” involved in the disbursement of the said cash.

“Chime reported at the Enugu zonal office of the Commission in response to invitation to explain his role in the (alleged) disbursement of Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira allegedly received for Enugu State’s PDP campaign organisation’s prosecution of the 2015 General election.

“The former governor, in his statement, denied any personal involvement with the disbursement of the said amount as was claimed by Mrs. Rita Chinelo Mba , secretary to the campaign office and his former Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Government affairs,” the source said.

He said the former governor further explained that the said cash was allegedly brought by two of his former commissioners. Chime was released on administrative bail, and will return on Monday, June 13, for further interrogation, 

The EFCC also quizzed former Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Abdu Bulama, as well as an ex-minister of State for Power, Mr. Mohammed Wakil, in continuation of its ongoing investigation into the $115 million alleged campaign funds.

EFCC Nabs, Probes Former Akwa-Ibom Governor Over Diezani's Bribe For Election Result Scandal

Ostensibly NOT Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa-Ibom State, now Senate's Minority Leader as many would have anticipated, but a an unnamed ex-military governor of the is reportedly under the probe of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC in connection with N450million which was allocated to the state out of the N23.29billion allegedly provided by former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. 

The cash is believed to have been for INEC officials as a bribe to change the results of the 2015 presidential election our source, The nation Newspaper reports

The anti-graft agency had questioned a former Military Administrator of the state and others in connection with the bribe.

But during one of the interrogation sessions, one of the suspects said the ex-governor allegedly “deducted N150million out of the bribe sum for personal use”.

“We are likely to invite the ex-governor for interaction,” the EFCC source added.

WANTED Oil Cabal, Diezani's Ally, Aluko Hastily Sells Off $24.5m US Mansion At 'Giveaway' Price

Nigerian oil tycoon, Kola Aluko, currently under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over his alleged role in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme involving former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, has sold his Bel-Air, Los Angeles-California mansion for $21.5 million, after purchasing the sprawling residence in 2012 for $24.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Designed by architect Paul McClean and built in 2011, the contemporary-style home is built on over an acre of land, with a gated entrance, a subterranean garage and a 132-square-foot infinity-edge swimming pool.

As Nigerian and European authorities investigate him for a series of money-laundering and fraud-related crimes, Aluko sold the home last week for $21.5 million, taking a $3 million loss.

According to LA Times, “Aluko, who is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for his alleged role in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme, sold a contemporary-style home in the 700 block of Sarbonne Road in a deal that closed off-market.”

“The house previously sold four years ago for $24.5 million, property records show,” LA Times reported, showing that Aluko (pictured right with Hollywood star Jamie Foxx) lost about $3 million by selling the same at $21.5 million.

According to Forbes, shortly after she became oil minister in 2010, Alison-Madueke awarded Atlantic Energy – an unknown start-up co-founded by Aluko – a very lucrative contract to fund NNPC’s (the state oil company) operational costs in four lucrative oil blocks in which the NNPC owned a stake.

“In return for providing funding to the NNPC, Atlantic Energy was to lift the crude produced from the oil blocks, sell it, and thereafter pay the state-owned oil firm its share of profits,” Forbes said.

However, Atlantic Energy, which was said not to have made any upfront funding, reportedly lifted crude.

A huge chunk of the proceeds from the sale of the crude oil did not make it to NNPC’s coffers and, by extension, the Nigerian treasury, according to Forbes.

Aluko’s mansion was designed by architect Paul McClean and built in 2011. The contemporary-style showplace sits on more than an acre, with a gated entrance, a subterranean garage and a 132-square-foot infinity-edge swimming pool.

The 15,000 square feet of interiors feature walls of glass, 16-foot ceilings, marble walls and Italian fixtures throughout. A wood-paneled library, wine cellar and screening room are among the amenities.

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Diezani's $115m Bribe: Liyel Imoke, Edo Gov. Aspirant, Others ARRESTED; See Details of Who Gets What

Liyel Imoke, the immediate past Governor of Cross River State was yesterday quizzed over the N23.29billion election bribe scandal by the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, the EFCC in its Port Harcourt office on Wednesday for several hours for his alleged role in the $115m (N23bn) bribe allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, The Nation Newspaper reported.

According to our Source, Others interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are former Minister of Mines and Steel Musa Muhammad Sada; former Minister of State for Agriculture Asabe Asmau Ahmed;  former Edo State Deputy Governor Lucky Imasuen and former Secretary to the Edo State Government, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, an aspirant of the guber election slated to be held soon in Edo.

The EFCC said one of the former ministers, Asabe Asmau Ahmed, admitted that of the N450million given to her, she kept N105million for herself.

As at press time, Imasuen and Iyamu were in EFCC’s custody pending their arraignment in court.

The anti-graft agency is, however, on the trail of a former member of the House of Representatives, Tony Azeigbemi.

The breakdown of the money ascribed by the EFCC to those interrogated is as follows: Imoke (N500m); Sada (N700m); Ahmed (N450m); Imasuen (N700m);  Ize-Iyamu (N700m); and Azeigbem (N700m).

The cash allegedly came from the $115million which former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke lodged with Fidelity Bank in controversial circumstances during the 2015 electioneering campaign.

According to a source, who spoke in confidence with our correspondent, Imoke was quizzed at the zonal office of the EFCC in Port- Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, over his alleged involvement in the N500million allegedly collected by the Cross River State’s chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ntufam John Okon.

The source said: “Imoke arrived at the Port-Harcourt office of the EFCC by 10:15am yesterday and is answering questions being posed to him by his investigators.

“Also, a former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen and a former Secretary to Edo State Government, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, have been interrogated   by operatives of the EFCC, for collecting N700Million from the $115million Diezani funds.

“The N700million was reportedly collected from the Mission Road branch of Fidelity Bank Plc, in Benin- City in March, 2015.

“Iyamu, a PDP’s Presidential Campaign Coordinator in the 2015 presidential election, admitted collecting the money from the bank.

“He told EFCC’s interrogators that he went to the bank on that day with Imasuen and a former House of Representatives member representing Edo Central, Tony Azeigbemi (who is yet to be arrested by the EFCC) and the money was handed over to them by an official of the bank. Both Imasuen and Iyamu signed for the money.

“Investigations by the EFCC showed that the two politicians conveyed the money from the bank in a bullion van to the residence of a top politician in Edo State. The Commission is on the trail of the politician for the recovery of the money. Both Imasuen and Iyamu are in the custody of the EFCC and will be charged to court soon.”

The EFCC has also interrogated two former ex-ministers, Musa Muhammad Sada (Mines and Steel) and Hajiya Asabe Asmau Ahmed (Minister of State for Agriculture).

A statement by the EFCC said:  “A former Minister of Mines and Steel, Arch. Musa Muhammad Sada, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission about his involvement in the alleged N23.29bn poll bribery scandal.

”Sada is one of the former ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, being investigated by the anti-graft agency.

 ”During investigation, Sada disclosed that he was authorised by former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, to collect N700m on behalf of Katsina State and remit it to the former state’s Commissioner for Finance to keep for him (Shema).

 ”In a related development, a former Minister of State for Agriculture, Asabe Asmau Ahmed, from Niger State, revealed how she signed for and collected N450m.

Ahmed also stated she kept N105million for herself.

“She further alleged that the balance was given to top Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, party officials in Niger State.”

The EFCC has been probing Mrs. Alison-Madueke for her alleged involvement in a $115m  (N23,299,705,000billion) bribe for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials to change the results of last year’s elections.

About four oil firms, 14 directors of oil companies, two banks and more than 22 INEC officials, including Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), are under investigation.

The Nation 

Diezani's $115m Bribe Saga: Former Akwa-Ibom Governor Implicated, Arrested By EFCC

As the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC delving deep into the slush fund allegedly used by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke to bribe and aid election of former President Goodluck Jonathan, a former military administrator of Akwa-Ibom State, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga( rtd), was named and has been arrested by the antigraft agency.

Nkanga, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), was arrested for collecting about N450million from the N23.29billion ($115m) poll bribery cash, News Punch has learnt according to The Nation Newspaper. He was said to be arrested in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital

A highly-placed source according to The Nation said : “A former Military Administrator of Akwa Ibom State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga( rtd) has been arrested by EFCC operatives for collecting a sum of N450,000,000 from the sleazy $115million deposited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison- Madueke with Fidelity Bank, Plc.

“He was arrested in Port- Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. Nkanga was alleged to have collected the money in two tranches, from a staff of Fidelity Bank in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State: Mr. Saint- Anthony Ejiowu.

” The first tranch of the money, a sum of N350,000,000( Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Million Naira only) was collected on March 27, 2015 while the second tranch of N100,000,000( One Hundred Million Naira only) was collected on March 31, 2015. Nkanga signed for the two tranches.

“He is in the custody of the EFCC and would be charged to court soon.”

$115m Diezani Bribe Scandal: 2 'Thief-Bank' Chiefs Return N10b

Sterling Bank’s CEO, Yemi Adeola and Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director of Access Bank Plc have reportedly returned the sum of N5billion each, totaling N10 billion to the coffers of the Federal Government from political slush funds fraudulent acquired during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, through the embattled former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Sahara Reporters says.

Bothe bank executives have since been released after the part payments

Sterling Bank’s CEO, Yemi Adeola, who was arrested on Wednesday in a raid on his bank by EFCC operatives, was released last night after he deposited a payment of N5 billion, Sahara Reporters confirmed from EFCC sources.

According to one of our sources, the money returned by Mr. Adeola was in partial restitution for a transaction of $88 million he received from Nigeria's former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Mr. Adeola is expected to pay back a total of N17 billion to the recovery accounts of the Nigerian treasury within two weeks.

Also released last night was Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director of Access Bank Plc., who was arrested yesterday after EFCC agents raided the bank headquarters in Lagos. 

A source at the EFCC told SaharaReporters that some notable personalities, including Oba Akiolu of Lagos and the bank's former CEO, Aig-Imokhuede, had pressured the anti-corruption agency to grant Mr. Wigwe bail. “We refused all such entreaties until Mr. Wigwe returned $5 million.” EFCC investigators said Zenith Bank had illicitly transferred the $5 million to Access Bank from a slush fund arranged by Ms. Alison-Madueke.

The EFCC source said the agency was conducting discreet investigations and recoveries of plundered funds from rogue bank CEOs who assisted Ms. Alison-Madueke and other officials of President Jonathan’s administration to launder funds. He added that most of the funds were laundered through opaque accounts that were kept “off records” by bank MDS.

Rampaging EFCC On Massive Arrest of Jonathan's Ministers, PDP Chieftains Over Diezani $115m Bribe

New Telegraph - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has taken into custody two former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, and ex-Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed. Both Wali and Mohammed served under former President Goodluck Jonathan. Wali allegedly received N950 million while Mohammed was alleged to have collected N500 million out of the money said to have been allegedly budgeted for the 2015 general elections by Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former Minister of Petroleum Resources.

Also taken into custody, according to informed sources, is a former official of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) in Kano State, one Sani Isa, who was alleged to have received N406,206,000, on behalf of the late Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Kano State, Alhaji Mukaila Abdullahi.

The source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The EFCC, in continuation of its investigations into the N23 billion laundered by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke during the 2015 general elections through Fidelity Bank Plc., has so far unravelled how a total of N5,097,064,000 was disbursed and received by representatives from seven states in the North-West zone of the country.

“Preliminary investigation into the matter has shown that a total of N1, 356,620,000 was received by two beneficiaries from Kano State of which a total of N950,000,000 was received by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the last dispensation, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali while the balance of N406,206,000 was received on behalf of the late Kano State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alhaji Mukaila Abdullahi by one Sani Isa who is retiree of INEC, Kano State. “They all, according to investigations, collected these monies from Fidelity Bank Plc. after due certification of various means of identification as requested by the bank.

“Also, one of the representatives from Jigawa State who was the former Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Dr Nurudeen Muhammad, received a total of N500 million out of N750 million disbursed to Jigawa State. “The representatives from Kano and Jigawa states, including the former staff of INEC, have been taken into custody and investigations are still on-going as to who the balance of N250 million was given to.” The source stated that other states in the North- West zone were believed to have benefited through their representatives from the N1 billion campaign funds.

Also, operatives of the  EFCC have arrested the Cross River State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ntufam John Okon, New Telegraph has gathered. Highly placed sources at the EFCC said Okon was arrested in connection with the $115 million said to have been lodged in Fidelity Bank Plc., by Alison- Madueke.

The Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, has, since, been arrested by operatives of the anti-graft agency. One of the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with New Telegraph, said the PDP chairman is alleged to have received N500 million, being his own share of the $115 million. The commission suspects that the lodged amount was allegedly meant to compromise some officials of INEC. Okon was arrested yesterday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. According to the source, “Investigations by the EFCC showed that Okon collected the money on March 26, 2015 at a branch of Fidelity Bank in Calabar.

“The money was placed in the transit account at the Corporate Headquarters of Fidelity Bank, but cash was made available to Okon in the Calabar branch of the bank.

“Okon is in the custody of the EFCC and would be charged to court soon,” the source said. Meanwhile, former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has denied newspaper reports that he had gone underground in a bid to evade arrest by the EFCC. Fani-Kayode, who was director, media and publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015, was said to have received N840 million for the campaign project.

Some members of the party, including former Imo State governor, Chief Achike Udenwa; former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Esther Nenadi Usman and ex-Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwilari have been invited and questioned by the anti-corruption agency in relation to some sums of the campaign funds linked to them.

A national newspaper (not New Telegraph) quoted an un-named EFCC source to have said that the former Minister of Aviation have gone into hiding. But in a statement yesterday, Fani-Kayode said he is yet to receive any invitation of any sort from the EFCC. “I have not been invited by the EFCC by letter and neither have they phoned me or attempted to reach me in any other way. I have been in my Abuja home for the last few weeks and I am not hiding from anyone,” he said.

He described the report as an attempt to further demonise and humiliate him by the EFCC, and challenged the anti-graft agency to either write or call him if it has any questions for him to answer.

“I have made my position clear on the issue of the presidential campaign funds. I have written an essay about it in my various columns about two weeks ago and I have been waiting for the EFCC to reach me ever since then. “They have invited others, but they have not invited me. I do not believe that I have done anything wrong and this latest attempt to criminalise me and make me look like a fugitive from justice will fail,” Fani-Kayode added.

According to him, other people invited by the EFCC over this same campaign funds issue were sent letters of invitation and were reached, noting that he appeared to be the only exception. The former minister noted that the “hideous lies are being fed to the newspapers to make it look as if I am in hiding or that I am running from them just to sensationalise the whole issue. “This is also to justify what the EFCC wish to do which is to arrest me in public, humiliate me or to storm my home and lock me up indefinitely.

There is no need for all that drama and if it happens that way the Nigerian people will know why. “I have no fear of the EFCC, I will respond to their invitation any day and anytime they send it to me and I will help them to clarify whatever issues they wish to raise in any way that I can. “Others were invited in a civilised way and were treated in a humane and decent manner.

I really do wonder why I should be treated differently, criminalised in the newspapers in this way and not even afforded the common courtesy of a formal invitation by them. “I await their letter or their call.”

Diezani Extends Plea-bargain To Buhari, Opts To Refund $2b, Expose Loots Of Other Oil Cabals

The embattled former untouchable Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has reportedly sent some allies of President Muhammadu Buhari to plea-bargain on her behalf  in the wake of new revelations of graft against her, Abuja Inquirer reported

The former minister has reached out to "some close, personal friends" of the President to beg him to reign in the security agencies and give her a soft landing, says Abuja inquirer

According to Abuja Inquirer, the Minister, In return, is offering to refund Two Billion US Dollars and to cooperate with federal officials in tracing looted funds that have been siphoned abroad by her various cronies.

We gathered that the President would hear none of that and is insisting that justice must take its course, Abuja Inquirer reported

Last week, the Nation newspaper reported that The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC) has seized properties and very expensive jewelry belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke. The report says the EFFCC confiscated several posh houses in choice parts of Nigeria and a very expensive wrist watch worth £600, 000 and other gold and diamonds from the shamed minister and the wife of one of her business partners, Mr Jide Omokore.

The Nation, quoting an unnamed EFCC source, said: "We have seized many houses belonging to Diezani and Omokore on Banana Island and other places. Also, a wristwatch of about £1.4million was seized from Omokore’s wife. From the former minister, we have retrieved a choice wrist watch worth £600,000 and jewelry in gold and diamond. We will soon show Nigerians all these items for them to appreciate what we have done and to learn some lessons.”

Mrs. Diezani is being tried for money laundering in a London court. Her son is also reported to be wanted by EFCC.

Diezani Alison-Madueke was one of the closest ministers to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, both of whom are from Bayelsa state. She has been fingered in many dubious deals, particularly in the oil industry.

This is not the first time Diezani is offering to refund money to the Federal government. Premium Times reported a while ago that when President Buhari was to meet with US officials including the US Attorney General, Ms Loretta Lynch, to discuss how the US government can facilitate the investigation, arrest and prosecution of some officials of the Jonathan administration implicated in the theft of billions of dollars, she reportedly spoke to the Kaduna state governor, MALLAM Nasir el-Rufai to intercede on her behalf with the President but was rebuffed by the Governor.

#DiezaniGate: EFCC Freezes 5 INEC Chiefs, Oil Cabals' Accounts; Details of Who Gets How Much Revealed

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, the EFCC has frozen accounts of 5 chiefs of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC over their involvement in the ongoing investigation of $115 million bribe-for-result scandal championed by the embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Those whose accounts may have been frozen and the bribe sum collected according to The Nation are; Mrs Gesila Khan (for collecting  N185, 842,000 out of a N681m bribe), Fidelia Omoile (Electoral Officer in Isoko-South Local Government Area of Delta State) —N112,480,000; Uluochi Obi Brown (INEC’s Administrative Secretary in Delta State)—N111,500,000; former Deputy Director  of INEC in Cross River State, Edem Okon Effanga —N241,127,000; head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa Ibom, Immaculata Asuquo —N214,127,000

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) believes the money came from proceeds of stolen crude oil.

“Our operatives have discovered that the $115 million came from stolen crude oil. They got it from former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke,” a top EFCC official said yesterday.

The official pleaded not to be named because of what he described as the “sensitivity of the matter”.

He added: “We will uncover how they came about the stolen crude oil and those used to siphon the oil in order to deny the nation of revenue.”

The EFCC has frozen all the accounts of top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and oil chiefs implicated in the $115m (N23.29b) bribery.

This, said another source, is in preparation for the arraignment of some suspects, including Fidelity Bank Managing Director Nnamdi Okonkwo.

The Fidelity Bank has already sacked it's arrested Managing Director, Nnamdi Okonkwo and subsequently named  Alhaji Mohammed Balarabe as the replacement in an acting capacity.

Charges might also be preferred against Mrs. Alison-Madueke, who investigators believe is central to the coordination of the huge bribe given to poll officials to alter the 2015 presidential election results.

Besides, the EFCC plans to arrest owners of oil companies believed to have contributed the cash because they have failed to report for interrogation.

“Our operatives are on the trail of members of the cartel behind the theft of crude.

“We have blocked all the accounts of all the INEC officials, bank officials and oil chiefs connected with the poll bribery scandal,” the source said.

It was also learnt from our source that the embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Cross River State, Mrs. Gesil Khan, was granted administrative bail on Sunday.

She is expected to report at the EFCC office today as part of the conditions for the bail.

Others have also been granted bail, pending their trial.

Mrs. Khan is to be reporting to the EFCC’s office on scheduled dates agreed with her.

On the owners of the oil firms allegedly involved in the scandal, the top EFCC source added: “We have quizzed  Leno Adesanya but it is apparent that we have to arrest others this week because they have refused to show up for interrogation.

“Certainly, we are closing in on more suspects whom we will pick up before the week runs out.”

As at last night, the EFCC was finalizing plans to arraign some suspects on the bribery.

Those pencilled for trial are Diezani (in absentia), Okonkwo and Fidelity Bank’s Head of Operations, Martin Izuogbe, Mrs Khan (for collecting  N185, 842,000 out of a N681million bribe); Fidelia Omoile( Electoral Officer in Isoko-South Local Government Area of Delta State)—N112,480,000 ; Uluochi Obi Brown( INEC’s Administrative Secretary in Delta State)—N111,500,000; a former Deputy Director  of INEC in Cross River State, Edem Okon Effanga—N241,127,000 and the Head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa Ibom, Immaculata Asuquo—N214,127,000.

The source added: “Very soon, we will arraign them in court. Some of them have admitted that they shared out of the bribe sum. Having recovered more than  N408.7million from some of the beneficiaries of the slush funds, we are set for trial.

“As for the bank, it even refunded N49.7m profit made from the deal. With this, the culpability of the bank is not doubtful at all.

“Since we have blocked  or frozen some accounts, we can recover these ill-gotten cash through court process.”

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