UK government seize £10 million worth of properties from Diezani

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized three London properties linked to former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

According to a report by Premium Times, the order to freeze the assets was handed down by a London court in September 2016.

The properties, two in Regents Park and one in Buckingham shire, were frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act

The freezing order reportedly followed a request made by Nigerian authorities also investigating the former minister.

While the order forbids the defendants from disposing of or dealing in the properties, it came too late to capture a further two properties worth £8 million which were sold.

Between 2011 and 2015, Chief Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko allegedly paid bribes to Alison-Madueke in exchange for billion dollar contracts, to lift Nigeria's oil, getting awarded to shell companies owned by both of them.