SaharaReporters’s story yesterday about a sudden “medical release” granted James Ibori, the troubled former governor of Delta State, may have thrown a spanner into his get-out-of-Dubai scheme. United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities today seized his passport to frustrate any quick escape from Dubai.
SaharaReporters’s story yesterday about a sudden “medical release” granted James Ibori, the troubled former governor of Delta State, may have thrown a spanner into his get-out-of-Dubai scheme. United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities today seized his passport to frustrate any quick escape from Dubai.
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Details of the "medical release" granted Ibori, who is awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom from the UAE, are emerging. SaharaReporters has learnt that the shady process involved Ibori depositing a huge amount of cash as "surety" for himself, an unprecedented legal maneuver orchestrated by his Dubai lawyer, Ali Musabah.
In two separate filings within the last two weeks, Mr. Musabah claimed that Ibori had "chronic chest infections and liver malfunction"
SaharaReporters checks today indicate that Ibori remains in Dubai in his house, although he did perfect his release papers at about 5:00 p.m. UAE local time on Saturday. However, his accomplices in Nigeria and the UAE are said to be desperate to get him out at all cost, the very purpose behind the dubious medical bail granted him.
UK sources today refused to discuss individual extradition cases, but a source within the UK diplomatic corps told a SaharaReporters correspondent they were shocked Ibori was able to acquire any form of release, no matter how limited. He denied they were consulted by the UAE authorities regarding this development.
As previously revealed by SaharaReporters, Ibori had exploited a legal loophole in the UAE a few weeks ago by deliberately admitting that he engaged in real estate fraud that ended in Ras al Khaimah court as a civil case. Sources said Ibori and his lawyers voluntarily admitted to engaging in a mortgage transaction malfeasance with a Dubai-based real estate developer, by design, saw him beginning a new round of civil legal trials in the UAE.
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The RAK court has now issued a 'travel ban' on Ibori leading to the seizure of his travel documents.
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