Finer details of the mega-swindle of Nigeria past times Messrs. Olajide Omokore in addition to Akanni Aluko stimulate got emerged. The details are contained inward the assets forfeiture proceedings filed against Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke in addition to Messrs. Omokore past times the U.S.A. of America Department of Justice inward Houston.
According to the US courtroom processes, both men engaged inward coin laundering in addition to bribery of a authorities official. They were constitute to stimulate got bribed Mrs. Alison-Madueke amongst high-end homes inward the United Kingdom, renovated to her gustation at dizzying costs; pricey slice of furniture items in addition to other indices of other-worldly lifestyle. Court document obtained past times SaharaReporters shows that betwixt Televeras, Arcadia in addition to Glencore, Aluko's concern human relationship inward Switzerland received at to the lowest degree $1.2billion inward funds that constitute its agency to funding Ms. Diezani's tasty lifestyle.
The immodest luxuries provided Mrs. Alison Madueke who, every bit Petroleum Resources Minister betwixt 2010 in addition to 2015, used her influence to facilitate inappropriate concern opportunities for Messrs. Aluko in addition to Omokore past times assigning to their companies, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts (AEDC) Limited in addition to Atlantic Energy Brass Development (AEBD) Limited, viii stone oil mining leases (OMLs).
The OMLs were assigned nether Strategic Alliance Agreements (SAAs) amongst the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Despite lacking the technical expertise in addition to fiscal capacity to run the OMLs, every bit noted inward a Feb 2014 written report of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mrs. Alison-Madueke greenlighted the procedure for her cronies.
What followed, said US prosecutors, was the sale past times AEDC in addition to AEBD of the oil-lifting allocations they were assigned nether the Forcados in addition to Brass SAAs to third-party stone oil trading companies. They made tonnes of money, past times non fulfilling the obligations stated inward the agreements, using roughly of it to bribe Mrs. Alison-Madueke.
Court papers present that Talaveras Group, i of the third-party stone oil trading companies, paid copious sums into Mr. Aluko’s personal accounts. Talaveras Group, registered inward Nigeria, is controlled past times i of Nigeria’s youngest billionaires, Igho Sanomi. The flow of payments, prosecutors observed, began presently after the laurels of the Forcados SAAs. Over a catamenia of vi months, Mr. Aluko received the amount of $15million inward his personal concern human relationship domiciled at LGT Bank (Schweiz) AG inward Switzerland (the “LGT -090038 Account”), from which diverse purchases for Mrs. Alison-Madueke were funded. The coin came from Taleveras Group in addition to its affiliates, including Taleveras Trading Limited in addition to and Taleveras Petroleum Trading BV.
On July 12, 2011, prosecutors constitute that the amount of $1.5million was wired from Taleveras to Mr. Aluko’s account. Two days later, the amount of $1million also arrived the concern human relationship from RFB Lengard JVA inward which Mr. Igho Sanomi, founder in addition to chairman of Taleveras, owns thirty per cent stake. Another $1million arrived on July 20, 2011, from Taleveras Trading Limited. This was followed on fifteen August 2011 past times $1million wired past times Taleveras to Mr. Aluko’s concern human relationship inward Switzerland every bit payment for a Joint Venture contract amongst RFB Lengard. The same day, he received $650,000 from the same source.
On September 12, 2011, Taleveras Trading Limited paid $1million in addition to $1.6million 4 days later. On v Oct of the same year, Mr. Aluko’s concern human relationship was credited amongst $1.5million past times Taleveras Petroleum Trading BV in addition to $500,000 vi days later. The side past times side lashing of cash arrived on fourteen Nov 2011, when his concern human relationship received $2million wired past times Taleveras
Group. On Jan iii in addition to 10 2012, $600,000 in addition to $1million respectively were paid past times Taleveras Petroleum Trading BV.
Prosecutors reckoned that the payments were made to Mr. Aluko inward render for assigning the AEDC’s rights to Taleveras in addition to RFB Lengard to elevator stone oil nether the corruptly acquired SAAs.
They discovered that each of the transactions was later transferred into in addition to out of correspondent banking corporation accounts at a fiscal institution, which processes its U.S. dollar wire transactions through Newark, New Jersey.
According to prosecutors, AEDC entered into an understanding amongst the Arcadia Group in addition to its subsidiaries, from which AEDC purportedly took loans. In return, Arcadia was repaid amongst assignments of AEDC’s unsmooth stone oil liftings nether the dodgy SAAs. The companionship describes itself every bit a “global commodity trading trouble solid roofing oil, agricultural, gas in addition to ability markets”.
“In particular, 2 months after the final payment from Taleveras, Arcadia Energy (Suisse) SA in addition to Arcadia Petroleum Limited began making payments to an concern human relationship held inward the refer of AEH at LGT Bank (Schweiz) AG ending inward -108031 (the LGT -108031 Account),” said prosecutors.
On Apr 18, 2012, Acardia paid $10million into the higher upwards stated account. On May fourteen of the same year, it paid $1.3million in addition to on July 23,
$2.4million. On July 24, 2012, the companionship paid $1.3million into the same account. Less than a calendar month later, it paid $2.9million into the same concern human relationship in addition to followed it upwards amongst a whopping $25million September 17, 2012.
The side past times side day, it paid $2.091million into the same account. This preceded a hefty transfer of $23.4million on Jan 8, 2013. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 couplet of days later, Acardia paid $1.6million in addition to on Feb 4, 2013, wired $2million to the account. This was followed past times the payment of $1.1million, $6million in addition to $1.7million respectively.
The stunt continued amongst payments to a company, Glencore, past times AEBD, which sold to Glencore over 7million barrels of unsmooth stone oil acquired through the Brass SAA. Glencore’s payments for these allotments, said prosecutors, were made to an concern human relationship inward the refer of AEBD ending inward 184001 at Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA in addition to an concern human relationship ending inward -630350 inward the refer of AEBD at Standard Chartered Bank, London. They were also made into accounts inward the refer of AEBD ending inward 677644 at Standard Chartered Bank, London; in addition to 9941 at Stanbic IBTC, Nigeria.
Glencore, for example, paid $83.6million to AEBD on Apr 5, 2013; $80.5million, $79.4million on July 4, $19.8million July 17, $19.5million on July xix in addition to $83.4million on July 21.
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