Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, has alleged that the reported repatriation of $52.88 million proceeds from the forfeiture of assets linked to former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke is an attempt to “tarnish her image” and reputation.
This was disclosed in Alison-Madueke’s right of reply, issued through Mike Ozekhome Chambers, her legal counsel.
Ozekhome, in a statement shared on Saturday, claimed that the recent attempt to link her to the civil forfeiture of the yacht Galactica the sale of which reportedly yielded $52.88 million repatriated to Nigeria from the United States is “a mischievous and cruel sport of tarnishing her image through a persistent cocktail of falsehoods and misinformation.”
Nairametrics previously reported that the Federal Government of Nigeria and the United States recently formalized an agreement for the repatriation of assets linked to Alison-Madueke and her associates.
The agreement was signed in Abuja by Nigeria’s…
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