Ex-governor released after completing initial jail term
Re-arrested to face fresh charges
New location unknown as at press time
James Ibori, the former Delta state governor, has been rearrested in the United Kingdom after initially regaining freedom from a London prison.
The former Delta state governor has been released and rearrested after
completing his jail term in a London hospital.
The ex-governor, who reportedly completed his prison terms in the United Kingdom bagged a 13-year in April 2012 by a Southwark Crown court in London and was released by prison authorities on January 22.
He finished his prison term at Her Majesty’s Prison in Bedford, outside of London, after initially being held at the Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire.
According to PM News, a prison source at Bedford attested on Tuesday night that, “He is out of here.” but his incipient destination is yet to be attested.
Ibori was reportedly re-apprehended to face another charge which borders on the confiscation of his ill-gotten assets, estimated to be about 250 million pounds as sources substantiated that the case initially billed for May, will now come up in June.
Ibori, 57, had been jailed for utilizing UK financial institutions to misappropriate hundreds of millions of pound sterling he purloined from public funds in Delta state and his peregrination to jail commenced with his apprehend on May 13, 2010 in Dubai, Coalesced Arab Emirates.
He was nabbed under Interpol apprehend warrants issued from Amalgamated Kingdom courts and enacted by the Metropolitan Police.
Ibori withal recently reacted to claims by Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s minister of equity and attorney-general of the federation (AGF) that the federal regime will anon instaurate £6.9 million glommed funds frittered away by him.
In a verbal expression issued on his behalf by Tony Eluemunr, his media aide, Ibori verbalized: “There is no Ibori loot anywhere in the world. Such mazuma, whether in British pounds, American dollars or the Nigerian naira just does not subsist. This is because the Ibori London tribulation is not yet over.
“It is an incontrovertible fact that the confiscation auricularly discerning has not commenced at all, and remains months away into the future.”
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