Nigeria’s federal high court has charged the country’s former oil minister, who served under ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, with money laundering in connection with an alleged bribery scandal aimed to keep Jonathan in office.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday joined Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum minister, in a N450m money laundering suit involving Mohammed Belgore (SAN), and Abubakar Sulaiman, former minister of national planning.
A man the State Security Service said was working for the interest of the Nigerian government was actually a money laundering suspect named in the mismanagement of about $118 million public funds, an investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has shown.