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Original Post Date: 2010-06-09 Time: 11:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu
A Southwark London Crown Court yesterday jailed Christine Ibori-Ibie, sister of former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, and his mistress Udoamaka Onuigbo Okoronkwo 21 years.
They were sentenced by the presiding judge, Christopher Hardy. Ibori-Ibie and Okoronkwo were last week found guilty by a 12-man jury for various financial crimes including money laundering, mortgage fraud and wire fraud.
Ibori-Ibie was found guilty on all counts the prosecution leveled against her, while Udoamaka was found guilty only on counts 2, 3, and 4 in the trial with case number T20087009.
Both convicts were remanded in prison at the order of the court after a guilty verdict was passed by the jury last week.
Meanwhile, hopes for an early extradition of Ibori to face trial in Nigeria for alleged money laundering were yesterday dashed by chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, who said Nigerian has no extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Waziri, who spoke at a press meeting marking her second year in office in Abuja, said however that any hope of extraditing Ibori to Nigeria would depend on the outcome of talks between the UAE and the United Kingdom (UK).
She said Nigeria has an extradition treaty with the UK but not with the UAE.
She said the authorities in the UK have already applied for the extradition of Ibori to the UK adding: “They are cooperating with the UAE to extradite him to the UK where some members of his family have already been convicted.”
The EFCC boss, who took time to review activities of the commission in the past two years, noted that the task of prosecuting the anti-graft war has not been easy.
She said the delay in the prosecution of cases involving politically exposed persons, especially former state governors, have been frustrating the agency, adding that she had already reached out to the judiciary to expedite action on such cases.
She said most of the cases have been stalled at the appeals level.
Noting that the law was slow in prosecuting such politically exposed persons, Waziri said: “Our lawyers are exploiting the law to frustrate us.”
She gave kudos to her agency for taking the anti-corruption war to a higher level despite daunting logistical challenges.
She said: “We can conveniently boast that while we inherited about 10 high profile cases when we took over about two years ago, today we have not only instituted over 50 high profile cases, we have equally secured over 100 convictions with a record of recovery that towers above $3.5 billion and over 1200 cases pending in court.”
This, she said, was irrespective of efforts the commission is making to resolve issues like the Halliburton and Siemens bribery scandals.
On the Halliburton scandal, Mrs. Waziri said the commission is still on the trail of the police which initiated investigations during the Mike Okiro administration adding that the incumbent Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ogbonna Onovo and his team are still investigating the matter.
She however promised that the commission will swoop into action once the report of the police investigation gets to it.
On the Siemens bribery scandal for which some foreign accomplices have been jailed in the United States (US), Waziri said investigations into the matter will be rounded off next week adding that the management of the company will be invited to state its own side of the story “as our law says both the bribe giver and the taker are equally guilty.”
She renewed call for an asset forfeiture law noting that such will assist the anti-corruption war as assets which can not be defended by legitimate earnings would be forfeited to the state.
She said such law works to stem the tide of public looting and stealing as persons who live above their stated means could be invited to defend such, noting that with the absence of an asset forfeiture law, Nigerians are made to believe that stealing public funds and crime pays as “they see those who had stolen public funds living in affluence and moving about freely while the poor ones get poorer.”
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Original date published: 8 June 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201006090326.html?viewall=1