US recovers $53m ‘proceeds of illicitly awarded contracts’ involving Diezani, Aluko, Omokore

The US department of justice has announced the final resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of the luxury assets that were laundered in and through the country in a case involving Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, and her associates.

Diezani’s associates who were named in the forfeiture case are Kola Aluko, a Nigerian businessman, and Jide Omokore, chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited.

The department said the forfeited assets were the “proceeds of foreign corruption offences”.

Following a statement released on its website on Monday, the US department of justice disclosed that “roughly $53.1 million in cash, plus a promissory note with a principal value of $16 million” have been recovered as part of “proceeds of illicitly awarded contracts “involving the trio, Diezeani, Aluko, and Omokore.

“According to court documents, from 2011 to 2015, Nigerian businessmen Kolawole Akanni Aluko and Olajide Omokore conspired with others to pay bribes to Nigeria’s former minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Alison Madueke, who oversaw Nigeria’s state-owned oil company,” the statement reads.

“In return, Alison-Madueke used her influence to steer lucrative oil contracts to companies owned by Aluko and Omokore. The proceeds of those illicitly awarded contracts totaling more than $100 million were then laundered in and through the United States and used to purchase various assets through shell companies, including luxury real estate in California and New York as well as the Galactica Star, a 65-meter superyacht.

And also, the real estate was also used as collateral for loans to Aluko and shell companies he controlled. As part of the forfeiture process, those lien holders were paid.”

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hope they are not like our dear country that there's usually no accountability for recovered money?

Somebody must be really desperate to bring back this woman's matter APC îmbeciles are a big joke. Where is Tinubu ? I want to attend birthday owambe

ai! God When?

When Will Approved Projects Follow Due Process And Monitoring?

UnCompleted Projects Everywhere.

They Wanted To Turn America Into Nigeria But The Government Said No.

When Will Nigeria Politicians Start Having Values And Accountability Spirit Over Every Single Project That Either Them Or Someone Before Then Have Promised?

AtLeast Those Fake Promises

I fear who no fear dat woman

Will the USA return the proceeds to Nigeria? They had better do.

The way Tinubu will loot this money

Them still dey recover proceeds from these our bleeped up country?

donbachi:
I fear who no fear dat woman

Fear PDP and anything that has to do with PDP.

GeJ and his gangsters really robbed Nigeria blind. Me sef wey I do mistake enter eko hotel that year when GEJ was visiting Lagos to canvass for vote collect free $4,000. That was the first time I saw the new $100 bills.

Their goal is to Igbonise Yorubaland. What they failed to do during the civil war when they pushed West and were defeated in Ore is what they are attempting to do now with GRV.

1. GRV is 50% Igbo.
2. He married an igbo
3. His children are 75% Ibo, but will still bear the name Rhodes-vivour.
4. His children will now contest to be Governor of Lagos in future while claiming to be Yoruba.
5. Some of his children may be even married to Igbo.

They will do all they can to take over Lagos and their major weapon is inter-tribal marriage.

This same script is playing out in Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun and Yoruba speaking parts of Kwara and Kogi.

In fact I suspect Seun Osewa is 25% Yoruba, 75% Igbo.