Although the former minister did not appear on Monday in court, her mother, Beatrice Agama, and another woman, Melanie Spencer, appeared in the day's sitting.
According to Sam Piranty, a journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who is monitoring the event took to his Twitter handle to disclose the information.
''Today at Westminster Magistrates Court an application for detention of cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act was made v Diezani''
''The application was made by the National Crime Agency #Nigeria''
''This means that she, contrary to emails from the court, may not have had to attend today''.
''Basically the NCA applied for an order that cash seized be detained #Nigeria''
''NCA have to apply on a cash seizure case within 48 hours so they must have found it recently #Nigeria''
''Or they found it earlier and this was a further application #Nigeria''
''£27,000 was seized in the case vs Alison-Madueke and CASH detained until April 2016 #Nigeria''
''Cash seized under Section 295 of proceeds of crime act until 5th April 2016 #Nigeria''
''£10,000 was seized from Ghanaian Melanie Spencer, wife of Kevin Okyere, by the NCA #Nigeria #Ghana''
''£5,000 and $2000 USD was seized by the NCA from Beatrice Agama #Nigeria''
''All of those have come directly from the NCA''
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