{"id":42524,"date":"2015-10-04T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42524"},"modified":"2015-10-05T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:02:30","slug":"we-started-investigating-alison-madueke-in-2013-uk-national-crime-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/we-started-investigating-alison-madueke-in-2013-uk-national-crime-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"We started investigating Alison-Madueke in\u00a0 2013 \u2013 UK National Crime Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443959811469_3520\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443959811469_3519\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443959811469_3518\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv1010227700\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443959811469_3592\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK National Crime Agency [NCA] on Saturday said investigation into allegations of corruption against Nigeria\u2019s former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the four other people arrested Friday had been on since 2013.<br \/>\nIn an update on its website, the NCA said, \u201cThe investigation commenced in 2013 under the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and transferred to the NCA earlier this year.\u201d<br \/>\nUntil recently, the Proceeds of Corruption Unit was domiciled at the Metropolitan Police Service.<br \/>\nBut after the International Corruption Unit was created at the NCA in line with the UK Anti-Corruption Plan, the Proceeds of Corruption Unit at the Metropolitan Police and the Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit of the City of London Police were scrapped.<br \/>\nThe ICU then became the UK\u2019s prime agency\u00a0 for the investigation of bribery of foreign public officials by individuals or companies from the UK, and money laundering by corrupt foreign officials and their associates.<br \/>\nIn its update Saturday, the NCA also said it had released the former minister on \u201cconditional bail\u201d.<br \/>\nThe other four unnamed persons arrested with her were also granted bail.<br \/>\n\u201cAll five people arrested were released on conditional police bail later that evening, pending further investigation both in the UK and overseas.\u201d<br \/>\nThe conditions of the bail are not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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>The UK National Crime Agency [NCA] on Saturday said investigation into allegations of corruption against Nigeria\u2019s former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the four other people arrested Friday&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":42544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42524","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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