The Federal Government has said that it had not closed
any criminal case being investigated in the country, technically raising the
potential for some prominent Nigerians implicated in the legendary Siemens and
Halliburton scandals to face trial.
The Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar
Malami, who made the disclosure in an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, also
dismissed as untenable the notion that President Muhammadu Buhari was afraid of
taking the Halliburton and Siemens cases because the key suspects were top
military leaders.
Malami was responding to enquiries about the claim that
Buhari’s administration had jettisoned the probe into the Halliburton and
Siemens corruption scandals, in which Nigeria lost billions of Naira to
high-ranking Nigerians who held sway at the time.
Media reports yet to be dispelled by the administration
had claimed that the government was afraid to confront the powerful
beneficiaries of the scam which had landed other suspects in the United States,
Germany and others in jail.
Nigeria is said to have lost over $182 million to the
Halliburton corruption case alone.
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