{"id":3453,"date":"2023-10-02T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:35:02","slug":"diezani-appears-in-uk-court-over-bribery-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/diezani-appears-in-uk-court-over-bribery-offenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Diezani Appears In UK Court Over Bribery Offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has appeared before the Westminster Magistrate\u2019s Court, London, over bribery offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This came in the heels of an investigation by the United Kingdom\u2019s National Crime Agency, which leads the country\u2019s efforts to combat serious and organised crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Diezani, 63, who also served as the president of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, was a prominent figure in President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s government from 2010 to 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NCA alleges that Diezani accepted bribes during her tenure as the Minister for Petroleum Resources in exchange for awarding multi-million-pound oil and gas contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The charges specified that Diezani benefitted from various perks, including cash, chauffeur-driven cars, private jet flights, luxury holidays, and the use of multiple London properties. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rewards also encompassed financial benefits like furniture, renovation work, payment of private school fees, and gifts from high-end\u00a0designer\u00a0shops.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has appeared before the Westminster Magistrate\u2019s Court, London, over bribery offences. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}