According to a report by
Wall Street Journal,
the US is considering a visa ban and financial ban on Nigeria's former
Petroleum Minister Alison-Madueke following alleged bribery, corruption
and laundering money through British and U.S. banks. Read the report
below
American officials have also considered a visa ban or financial
sanctions against Mrs. Alison-Madueke and a dozen of her associates, oil
officials and politicians, U.S. officials said. Washington is
scrutinizing whether her associates laundered money in the U.S., the
U.K. and other countries, the officials said.
Both the State
Department and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency declined to comment on
their investigations: “We continue to work with Nigeria to fight
corruption,” a State Department official said.
Together, the
litany of legal actions—conducted on three continents— point to a swift
but uncertain precedent for Africa’s struggle against corruption.
“The real issue is the signaling effect: that holding public office in
Nigeria should not be a license to plunder,” said Bismarck Rewane,
managing director of Lagos research firm Financial Derivatives Co.
“It’s working. The number of bribes I’m being asked for has dropped.”
For
the better part of a decade, graft fighters in Africa, having lost
faith in their own courts, have asked judges in Europe and America to
wage their battles.
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