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Detailed testimony at London’s Southwark Crown Court has shed fresh light on the scale of luxury property renovations and financial disputes linked to Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, as her bribery trial entered its fifth day. A former building contractor, Tony Mulcahy, told the court that his company, Bear Rock Construction Ltd,…
In the halls of Southwark Crown Court, London, a woman who once held the keys to one of the world’s most significant energy sectors now sits in a glass-walled dock. Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, looks far removed from the powerful figure who once commanded the respect of global leaders as the President of OPEC and Nigeria’s…
Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke had no decisive authority to award major oil and gas contracts during her tenure and functioned merely as a “rubber stamp” for recommendations from senior civil servants, her defence counsel told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London on Thursday. Jonathan Laidlaw, appearing for Alison-Madueke, rejected…
