Nigeria, June 10 -- The UK High Court of Justice at King's Bench Division has granted a forfeiture order on a property occupied by the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Abigail Katung, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report.

The court ordered the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) to take possession and recover the property, which was originally owned by a wealthy businessman, Mansoor Hussain. Investigators have previously accused him of being a money launderer for major crime lords in the north of England.

Mrs Katung, the wife of Sunday Katung, Nigerian senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, currently occupies the property with her two children.

She had signed a Contract of Sale agreement in 2015, the year her husband was first elected...