Court decrees permanent forfeiture of Diezani’s $37.5m mansion to FG

Federal High Court in Lagos ordered that a $37.5m mansion on Banana Island, Lagos linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

The court also ordered that the sums of sums of $2.7 M and N84.5 M realised as rents on the property should equally be forfeited to the Federal Government.

The orders were made on Monday by Justice Chuka Obiozor, following a motion on notice argued before him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The anti-graft agency had on July 19, 2017, obtained a court order to temporarily seize the property designated as Building 3, Block B, Bella Vista Plot 1, Zone N, Federal Government Layout, Banana Island Foreshore Estate, which is said to have 24 apartments, 18 flats and six penthouses.

UCJ, UNILORIN.