Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of a sum of N7,646,700,000 said to have been illegally kept in Sterling Bank Plc by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The antigraft agency this morning told the court that the said amount is part of the $153,310,000 that the former minister allegedly siphoned from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation sometime in 2014. EFCC alleged that Diezani stashed the money in three banks and they have been able to recover N23.4bn, $5m and another N9.08bn out of the $153.3m through an order granted by another judge, Justice Muslim Hassan also of the Federal High Court.
The anti-graft agency asked the court to order Sterling Bank to give the money to the Federal Government. Justice Obiozor granted the order and then adjourned till August 28th for the bank and any other interested party to appear before him to show why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
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