Na wa ooo....this na real suffer ooo....Embattled former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has been rearrested in the United Kingdom after he was earlier freed from a London prison.
Ibori, who bagged a 13-year jail term in April 2012 by a Southwark Crown court in London, was reportedly released by prison authorities on January 22.
A source told PM News, that Ibori’s current whereabouts remain unknown.
“He is out of here”, a prison source at Bedford told the news medium Tuesday night.
Ibori, according to the report was re-arrested to face another charge bothering on confiscation of his ill-gotten assets, estimated to be about 250 million pounds.
Sources said the case, which was initially billed for May, will now come up in June this year.
Ibori, 57, had been in the prison custody for using UK financial institutions to misappropriate hundreds of millions of pound sterling he stole from public funds in Delta state as the governor.
He was nabbed under Interpol arrest warrants issued from United Kingdom courts and enacted by the Metropolitan Police. However.......
Speaking to DailyTrust, Abutoh said that the former governor was still serving his term at the Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire, England and will only be released after his assets confiscation trial scheduled for June this year has been done
“If you imprison someone for stealing, you can’t let them go without telling you what you say they stole. That is the essence of the confiscation trial. Once the trial is concluded and he is able to settle it, he will be released. They know Ibori sells papers, so some people just sit down and write whatever they like. I visited him in prison about three weeks ago and speak with him every other day. Things are still as they are, and everything is on course”.Ibori has been in a UK prison since April 2012 for stealing and money laundering, among other offences.
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