The trial of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke has been postponed to November 2025 by the Westminster Magistrates Court in London.
On Monday, October 30, the court made a decision stating that the former Nigerian minister’s bribery trial will proceed on the scheduled day.
According to report, a former minister is on trial for allegedly taking a £100,000 bribe from certain oil firms.
Alison-Madueke was granted £70,000 bail by Michael Snow, the district judge at the Westminster Magistrates Court in the United Kingdom, on October 2, following his determination that she posed a flight risk.
Snow imposed stringent conditions on Alison-Madueke prior to her release, such as an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and the wearing of an electronic tag at all times.
In October 2015, Alison-Madueke and four other individuals were placed under arrest in the United Kingdom on charges of money laundering and bribery.
In August 2023, the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom declared its suspicion that Alison-Madueke had accepted bribes in exchange for giving multi-million pound contracts for oil and gas.
The NCA stated on its website that Alison-Madueke “is alleged to have benefited from at least £100,000 in cash, chauffeur-driven cars, private jet flights, luxury vacations for her family, and the use of multiple London properties.”
Meanwhile, Allison-Madueke’s immediate extradition to the United Kingdom has been requested by Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), who has served the Crown Prosecution Services of the United Kingdom with an arrest warrant.
On October 2, the EFCC said that it had started the process of extraditing Mrs. Alison Madueke from the United Kingdom back to Nigeria due to 13 allegations that the anti-graft agency had brought against her that involved money laundering.
The commission further disclosed that the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria were all included in the money laundering allegations for which Alison-Madueke is responsible to the EFCC.
According to the EFCC, the former minister who served in former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet from 2010 to 2015 stole $2.5billion from the Nigerian government while she was a minister
