[2] Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was elected as Governor of Bayelsa State in May 1999 as a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

[12][13][14] In December 2009, the federal government hired a British law firm to help dispose of four expensive properties acquired by Alamieyeseigha in London.

US prosecutors filed court papers in April 2011 targeting the Massachusetts brokerage fund and a $600,000 home in Rockville, Maryland,[6] which they alleged were the proceeds of corruption.

A motion for default judgement and civil forfeiture was granted by a Massachusetts federal district judge in early June 2012.

[16][17] In February 2023, the United States signed an agreement with Nigeria for the restitution of approximately one million dollars embezzled by Deprieye Alamieyeseigha.

][19][20] Alamieyeseigha was reported to have died of cardiac arrest at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital on 10 October 2015.

[21] However, in a later interview, Bayelsa State Information Commissioner, Esueme Kikile revealed that the former Governor "died of complications arising from high blood pressure and diabetes which affected his kidney.