“The respondent did not utilise her salary or any part of her legitimate income to acquire the assets sought to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.” Diezani Nigeria
Nigeria’s Former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Allison-Madueke will forfeit her $40m worth of pieces of jewellery to the Nigerian government, a Federal High Court in Lagos ruled on Tuesday.
An investigator with the Commission, Rufai Zaki, in an affidavit put before the court insisted that the jewelleries were beyond the former Minister’s “known and provable lawful income.” “The respondent did not utilise her salary or any part of her legitimate income to acquire the assets sought to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria,” Zaki said.
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