EFCC Traces £3.2m London Mansions To Amosu, Adigun… Seek UK’s Help To Seize Properties

the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had traced two houses in the highbrow areas of London allegedly belonging to the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.); and a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting in the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun.

This is just as the Federal Government has commenced moves to seize two mansions.

Source said Amosu and Adigun, who are due to be arraigned for alleged N21bn fraud, purchased the houses in 2014.

“We identified a detached house at 93b Shirehall Park, London, NW42QU, belonging to Adigun. The house was bought at the cost of £875,000 (N333,375,000) while we traced another house to 50 Tenterden Grove, NW41TH, belonging to Amosu. The house was bought at over £1m (N381m),” the source added.

Punch however reports that the value of the houses had increased.

A visit by its corresponded to Zoopla.co.uk, a website real estate agents use in valuing properties in the UK, showed that the property which Adigun allegedly bought in August 2014 at the cost of £875,000 currently goes for £1,046,000 (N398,526,000).

It adds that Amosu’s property, which it said was purchased in November 2014 at £1,850,000, (and not £1m as claimed by the EFCC) is now worth £2,175,000 (N828, 675, 000).

According to the property website, Amosu’s property has six bedrooms, six bathrooms and two sitting rooms.

To retrieve the properties, the Federal Government, through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, would write to the government of the United Kingdom to assist in seizing the properties, which were allegedly bought with Nigerian taxpayers’ money.

He said, “What we are seeking is how to seize the properties through diplomatic means. It is a process known as Mutual Legal Treaty Assistance.”

According to the UK media, a large number of mansions in the country are owned by corrupt Nigerians.

In a May 2016 report entitled ‘Palaces Of Corruption’, The UK Daily Mail unveiled the London mansions of deceased former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; another dead ex-governor, Abubakar Audu of Kogi State, and convicted ex-Governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori.