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Federal Government delegation, comprising of the Minister of Justice
and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami; Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu
and crack detectives from the anti-graft agency, yesterday, started
comparing collated intelligence notes with their United Arab
Emirates(UAE) counterparts on some Nigerian former Politically Exposed
Persons (PEPs).
This move is ahead of the repatriation of over
$200billion stashed away by 7 former governors, 6 former ministers, a
fleeing ex-presidential aide in form of cash and/or acquired properties
in the UAE.
Implicated in this UAE loot saga are
some of the aforementioned former public officers and about 5 chieftains
of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) who have fat accounts in UAE and
choice properties in Marina (Dubai), Bur Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha.
To
this end, some mansions belonging to the former PEPs and their cronies
or fronts may also be seized by the EFCC officials who arrived Dubai on
Saturday. The Nigerian delegation went to UAE in line with an agreement
with the Federal Government. Recall President Muhammadu Buhari in
January signed a “Judicial Agreement on Extradition, Transfer of
Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and
Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters, which
includes the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth”.
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