Nigeria’s Ex-justice Minister Arrested in Dubai Over Fraud, Graft

A man in handcuffs. Nigeria’s former Attorney-general Mohammed Adoke has been arrested by Interpol in Dubai over fraud and corruption allegations. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

November 22, 2019//-Nigeria’s former Attorney-general and Justice Minister Mohammed Adoke has been arrested in Dubai over fraud and corruption allegations, the government confirms.

Mr. Adoke, who traveled to Dubai for medical attention, was arrested by International Police (Interpol) for alleged involvement in oil scams, fraud and money laundering.

Mr. Adoke’s lawyer filed an application for the letter of attestation from Nigeria’s Ministry of Justice for Interpol to release him. However, the Nigerian government instead forwarded to Interpol charges against the former minister.

Prof. Itse Sagay, the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption re-ported that the arrest is the latest success in the fight against corruption under the federal government.

The best way to protect yourself against a lawsuit from a health insurance company is to know what types of activities are and are not considered fraud. Despite the treatment that insurance companies often receive in movies and paperback novels, they are generally speaking, not evil corporations who wish to steal from their patients and badger their families; in fact most coverage companies are of the tepid, modest, entrepreneurial variety. However, if you break a law, or if they think that you are guilty of insurance fraud, coverage companies will come after you viciously and prosecute you to the full extent of the law. While it may seem unnecessary from the laymen’s point of view, coverage companies use these aggressive tactics to cut down on what amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost money for them each year in the form of fraudulent insurance activities. Simply put, your best bet is to not be fraudulent, and the surest way of staying legal is by knowing the law. Here you can read top Medicare fraud strategies.

There are two types of insurance fraud: hard and soft. Hard fraud is roughly those acts that are undertaken with the explicit intent of conning an insurance company, an insurer, or a health care provider. An example of this would be the classic movie scenario of a person taking out an expensive policy on an automobile, intentionally wrecking that automobile, and then attempting to collect the coverage funds on that intentional wreck. While hard fraud tends to be rarer, it is without a doubt an activity that should be avoided at all costs. It might be the less common of the two types, but insurance companies will do their best to put you in jail for a significant period of time if they think that you are trying to purposefully con them out of large amounts of money.

Soft fraud is slightly more ambiguous but is equally dangerous and surely worth your attention and aversion as well. It encompasses all those acts of deceit where it cannot be proven that an individual willingly planned and executed maneuvers to swindle an insurance company by means of an elaborate scheme. This means that any time a policyholder lies about conditions in their home or the condition of an injury or accident, or embellishes the extent of their claims, they are committing soft fraud. Oddly, policyholders are not the most frequent abusers of soft deception instead it is the health care providers themselves (the doctors and dentists) who tend to most often avail themselves of these fraudulent techniques, likely out of an engrained sense of duty and empathy to the patient. Regardless, one should insist on the current charges and reporting of facts to ensure that one does not end up being prosecuted for these types of charges.

Health insurance companies take such drastic measures because of the substantial amounts of money that they lose each year to fraud. To avoid being an accidental or one-time fraud that ends up losing their money and livelihood thanks to a court case, make sure that you know the law and follow it at all times.

The charges forwarded to the international police include conspiracy and money laundering on Malabu Oil Block; conflict of interest on Malabu Oil Block; and involvement in the $9.6 bil-lion judgment award against Nigeria by Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).

Mr. Adoke is also to give clarification on $2,267,400 Malabu Oil cash paid to a Bureau De Change operator. He is also facing criminal charges on abuse of office and money laundering with respect to the granting of the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245 to Shell and ENI.

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier obtained a warrant is-sued by a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja.

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