A police officer has been removed from a UK anti-corruption unit after claims he was paid for information about a case against a Nigerian politician. James Ibori is in prison for fraud and money-laundering linked to his time as the governor of Nigeria’s Delta state. The Crown Prosecution Service says it has intelligence which “supports…
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A police officer has been removed from a UK anti-corruption unit after claims he was paid for information about a case against a Nigerian politician.
James Ibori is in prison for fraud and money-laundering linked to his time as the governor of Nigeria’s Delta state.
The Crown Prosecution Service says it has intelligence which “supports the assertion” a Met officer was paid for information. He denies wrongdoing.
The CPS previously denied claims it had not handed over all key evidence.
James Ibori, a former governor of one of Nigeria’s oil-producing states, was jailed in 2012 for 13 years for laundering millions in the UK through the purchase of property, a fleet of armoured Range Rovers and a £120,000 Bentley.
The conviction of Ibori was the prize for a government anti-corruption campaign initiated by the Department for International Development (DfID) 10 years ago.
Det Sgt John McDonald, who is accused of receiving payment in return for providing information about the case, headed the police investigation. He has always denied any wrongdoing.
Det Sgt McDonald has been removed from the National Crime Agency’s International Corruption Unit, where he had been on secondment. He has returned to the Met, where a review of his status has begun.
The CPS has also replaced the prosecution team involved in ongoing cases connected to the Ibori affair, although it stressed the lawyers still retained its full confidence.
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