Diezani Intercepts Phone Conversations

Telephone conversations by Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Petroleum Resources Minister, revealed that she deliberately connived with her business partners to steal Nigeria’s oil money.

As Petroleum Minister between 2010 and 2015, Mrs Alison-Madueke used her influence to facilitate illicit business opportunities for Messrs.

Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, who used shell companies to receive billion-dollar contracts to sell Nigeria’s crude oil.

The oil swap contracts were the controversial Strategic Alliance Agreements (SAAs) through which middlemen were used to sell Nigeria’s crude oil in exchange for refined products.

The telephone conversations, was intercepted by US prosecutors tracking money laundering and hefty bribes paid out to Mrs. Alison-Madueke and are contained in an assets forfeiture court process, filed against the former minister and Messrs. Omokore and Aluko by the US Department of Justice in Houston, Texas.

UCJ, UNILORIN.