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EFCC Invites Foreign Auctioneers To Sell Diezani’s N14.4 Billion Jewellery

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The EFCC has contacted internationally certified auctioneers overseas to auction off the $40 million (about N14.4 billion) jewellery, recovered from a former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.


TheNation reports that the acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, also revealed that 242 trailers and tankers recovered from internet scammers will also be auctioned off.

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In the month of July, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had temporarily forfeited the pieces of jewellery to the government pending hearing on a permanent forfeiture.

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Justice Nicholas Oweibo, ruled on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 that Alison-Madueke failed to showcase why the sets of jewelry should not be permanently forfeited, despite her contesting against the temporary forfeiture in court.

Source: africacelebrities.com

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