The names of the representatives are Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Imo state governorship competitor of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hope Uzodinma.
Others are Senators Stella Odua, Peter Nwaoboshi, and Albert Bassey Akpan.
Administrator of the Special Presidential Investigative Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, SPIP, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, revealed this yesterday at a news gathering in Abuja to feature a portion of the exercises of the body in 2018.
He stated: "The UK has passed a law that will likewise help us in Nigeria battle debasement and that is the 'Unexplained Wealth Regulation'
which involves that on the off chance that you have a property in the UK that is above $50, 000, you need to clarify your wellspring of riches, and property here does mean a working as well as even adornments.
"Along these lines, we have composed the National Crime Authority in the UK requesting that they research some Nigerian legislators who have property in the UK and the Virgin Islands," he said.
Obono-Obla included that on the off chance that they are discovered punishable, they would be indicted as per surviving laws and made to relinquish such properties.
Obono-Obla, who is additionally the Special Assistant to the President on Public Prosecution, included that five oil organizations are likewise under scrutiny for tax avoidance and refusal to pay eminences to the Nigerian government.
He stated: "the organizations have not dispatched over $1 billion to the administration.
"A lot of oil organizations are adding to the financial difficulties confronting the nation, precluding Nigeria from claiming eminences and furthermore avoiding expenses, cash that would have been directed to the improvement of the nation.
"Working with the Federal Inland Revenue Service FIRS, we found that Addax Petroleum has neglected to make good on the regulatory obligation for a long time thus they are owing about N700 million.
At that point, on account of a request of we got from Femi Falana SAN, Mobil which bought an oil coalition in 2001 for $2.5 billion dollars is yet to pay about $1.9 billion of that cash to the administration. We have initiated our examinations as well", he expressed.
He said the board was additionally taking a gander at an appeal to including the best officers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC and in
addition against the administration of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN under Govs. Chukwuma Soludo and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi concerning obligation abrogations to banks.
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