The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has arrested the Co-Chairman of Atlantic Energy,Mr Jide Omokore over corruption and Money laundering, an Official told Reuters.
The official said the arrest is part of the crackdown in the Oil sector that has swept the former Petroleum minister Diezani Madueke who was arrested in London last week.she was the Minister of Petroleum from 2010 to 2015 under ex president Jonathan.
She handed over several contracts to Atlantic Energy shortly after she was appointed as Oil minister, a fairly new company as of then,an action she was criticized of by the then CBN Governor, Sanusi,but she denied any wrong doing.,Sanusi was sacked for raising alarm that several billions of Oil revenue has not been remitted by NNPC to Federal account
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