UK court seizes cash from Alison-Madueke, mother

The trial of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, for alleged financial crime began yesterday at a Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. 

The court ordered the seizure of £27,000 cash and a yet-to-be ascertained sum from a woman, Ms. Beatrice Agama, identified as her mother, who was also in court. However, details of her charges were not readily known as at press time.
The former minister was arrested last Friday and granted bail after she was quizzed. As she was being arrested in London, a team of operatives from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided her house in Abuja where some documents were said to have been seized.
According to a burst of tweets from a reporter with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Mr. Sam Piranty, the court ordered that the cash should be impounded following an application for the seizure under the Proceeds of Crime Act made by the National Crime Agency.
The cash is to be detained until April 5, 2016 under Section 295 of Proceeds of Crime Act. Three of the names of four of those arrested in London alongside Alison- Madueke, has emerged. Alison-Madueke was arrested in London on Friday by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency.
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