{"id":100634,"date":"2022-10-24T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100634"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:13:45","slug":"graft-war-court-orders-final-forfeiture-of-diezanis-abuja-homes-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/graft-war-court-orders-final-forfeiture-of-diezanis-abuja-homes-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Graft war: Court Orders Final Forfeiture of Diezani\u2019s Abuja Homes, Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1747583113559562351\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The two properties are located at Plot 1854 Mohammed Mahashir Street, and No. 6, Aso Drive, in the highbrow Asokoro and Maitama Districts of Abuja are valued at $2,674,418USD and N380, 000,000 respectively.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The luxury cars are a black BMW saloon with Chassis No B8CV54V66629 and registered number, RBC155 DH and a black Jaguar saloon car with Chassis No SAJAA.20 GRDMv43376, valued at N36,000,000.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The judge gave the order forfeiting the assets to the Federal Government of Nigeria while ruling on the application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in Suit No. 1122\/2021 and Suit No 1123\/2021, asking for the final forfeiture of the assets.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Commission had on November 29, 202 secured the interim forfeiture on the assets in a ruling on separate motion ex-parte filed on September 27, 2021 which prayed the court to order the interim forfeiture of the assets on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that they were proceeds of unlawful activities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In granting the interim forfeiture Order, Justice Olajuwon had ordered the EFCC to publish a notice in a national newspaper, inviting anyone with interest in the assets to show cause why they should not be finally forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The court consequently adjourned till January 22, 2022 for report.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In compliance with the Order of Court, the Forfeiture Order was published in Thisday Newspaper of Wednesday April 6, 2022.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the absence of any contestation of the Interim Order, the Court, today,\u00a0 forfeited the properties to the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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