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Diezani deposited $115.01m, gave Belgore, Sulaiman N450m –Witness

An official of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Timothy Olaobaju, on Monday, narrated how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, stashed a sum of $115,010,000 in the bank with subsequent instructions to convert it to naira and be distributed among individuals in the 36 states of the federation.

Among the beneficiaries, Olaobaju said, were a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Belgore; and a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, who both received N450m in the run-up to the 2015 general elections.

Olaobaju said this on Monday when he appeared as a prosecution witness before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos, where Belgore and Sulaiman are being tried for alleged money laundering involving N450m.Click here for more detail

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