Bribery: Diezani Alison-Madueke To Wear Electronic Tag, With Curfew From 11pm To 6am Among Other Bail Condition By London Court

 Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been granted bail by a London Court in the bribery charges filed against her by the United Kingdom (UK) government.

Reuters reports that District Judge Michael Snow on Monday granted Madueke bail in terms and conditions and this includes a curfew that ordered her to stay indoors between 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Madueke was also ordered to always wear an electronic tag, with a 70,000-pound surety to be paid by her before she could leave the court building on Monday.

The former Nigerian minister, during her Monday’s appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court, gave her name, date of birth and address when she spoke.

Even though the charges against her were read out in court, she was not asked to formally enter a plea, but her lawyer, Mark Bowen, told the court she would be pleading not guilty.

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Madueke will have her next court appearance at Southwark Crown Court, which deals with serious criminal cases on 30 October.

Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015, was in August 2023 charged with bribery offences, in the wake of a National Crime Agency investigation.

She was accused of receiving bribes as Nigeria’s petroleum minister in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts.

Prosecutor Andy Young, accused Madueke of accepting a wide range of advantages in cash and in kind from people who wanted to receive or continue to receive the award of oil contracts said to be worth billions of dollars in total.

The prosecutor listed the advantages to include: delivery of 100,000 pounds ($121,620) in cash, the payment of private school fees for her son, and the use and refurbishment of several luxurious properties in London and in the English countryside.

They also included the use of a Range Rover car, payment of bills for chauffeur-driven cars, furniture, and purchases from the upmarket London department store Harrods and from Vincenzo Caffarella, which sells Italian decorative arts and antiques.