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The International Criminal Police Organisation has arrested a Director of Process and Industrial Development Limited, James Nolan.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nolan, an Irish national, who allegedly jumped bail in 2022 in the ongoing $9.6bn P&ID scandal in Nigeria, was arrested by the INTERPOL on January 27 in Italy, while on a visit to his wife.
A source in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission confirmed the information to NAN.
“Yes, we got the information through informant sources,” the official said.
The source said the next line of action was for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to apply to INTERPOL for Nolan’s extradition back to Nigeria to stand his trial.
NAN reports that counsel for Nolan, Paul Erokoro, SAN, in a telephone chat, said he had also heard about the report.
“There is a report that James Nolan was arrested but the EFCC is actually in the better position to confirm. They might have heard from INTERPOL. But I have not spoken to him (Nolan) and I don’t have firsthand confirmation but I have heard about the report,” he said.
