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Nigeria: Why We Arrested Adoke in Abuja - Interpol
Premium Times, 19 December 2019
The Interpol on Thursday told PREMIUM TIMES it took Nigeria's former attorney-general, Bello Adoke, into custody. Read more »
Mohammed Bello Adoke, former attorney-general, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission shortly after arriving in Nigeria from the United Arab Emirates, where he had been detained by Interpol. Adoke is facing corruption charges relating to the 2011 sale of a Nigerian offshore oil field worth about U.S.$1.3 billion.
Nigeria: Adoke Returns to Nigeria, Arrested By Interpol
Premium Times, 19 December 2019
Nigeria's former attorney-general, Bello Adoke, has been arrested by Interpol agents shortly after arriving in Nigeria from the United Arab Emirates. Read more »
Nigeria: Former Justice Minister Adoke in Custody Over Malabu Oil Deal
Premium Times, 19 December 2019
The anti-graft agency, EFCC, says it now has a former justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, in its custody. Read more »
Nigeria: Adoke Regains Freedom From Interpol Custody in Dubai, Leaves for Nigeria
This Day, 19 December 2019
Former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN finally regained freedom from the Interpol after one month and a week in their custody in Dubai, United Arab… Read more »
Nigeria: Adoke Arrives Nigeria At EFCC's Instance
Vanguard, 19 December 2019
Following series of meetings between Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Ibrahim Magu and Dubai authorities, embattled former attorney-general of the federation and… Read more »
Nigeria: Ex-Attorney General Adoke Released in Dubai, Departs for Nigeria
Premium Times, 19 December 2019
Nigeria's former Attorney-General, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has departed the United Arab Emirates for Nigeria, PREMIUM TIMES can report, after he was freed by the Interpol outpost in… Read more »
Nigeria: Court to Hear Adoke's Application for Exclusion in Malabu Fraud Case, December 12
This Day, 5 December 2019
Justice Danladi Senchi of an Abuja High Court wednesday adjourned till December 12, hearing in the application filed by a former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello… Read more »
Former attorney general, Mohammed Adoke, was taken into custody seven months after Nigeria's anti-graft agency issued a warrant for his arrest as part of an investigation into one of the oil industry's biggest suspected corruption scandals. Adoke is allegedly connected with illegal payments that lead to the 2011 acquisition of OPL 245, the biggest oil field in the country.
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