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Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria
2003 - 2007
The U.S. administration has not commented on Atiku’s status or his travel, but several U.S. diplomats and others familiar with the visit told Reuters the former vice president has been banned from entering the United States for the past several years after he figured prominently in two corruption cases.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-election-atiku-exclusive-idUSKCN1PT0TR"Jennifer Douglas Abubakar, a U.S. citizen, is the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria and a former candidate for the Presidency of Nigeria. This case history examines how, from 2000 to 2008, Ms. Douglas helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States, including at least $1.7 million in bribe payments from Siemens AG, a German corporation, and over $38 million from little known offshore corporations, primarily LetsGo Ltd. Inc., Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., and Sima Holding Ltd."
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL7100.pdfOver the years, questions have been raised about the source of Mr. Abubakar’s wealth. He spent twenty years in the Nigerian Customs Service, and then worked in the private sector for ten years, before serving as Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. While Vice President, Mr. Abubakar was the subject of corruption allegations relating to the Nigerian Petroleum Technology Development Fund. In December 2008, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a formal complaint against Siemens AG, a German company, that, among other actions, in 2001 and 2002, Siemens wire transferred $2.8 million in bribe payments to a U.S. bank account belonging to Ms. Douglas as part of a scheme to bribe Nigerian officials. In response to this and other legal actions, Siemens admitted to engaging in widespread bribery payments, pled guilty to criminal violations and settled civil violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and agreed to pay over $1.6 billion in civil and criminal fines. Ms. Douglas has denied any wrongdoing, but the Subcommittee has obtained financial records showing the transfer of over $1.7 million from Siemens AG to Ms. Douglas’ account at Citibank.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL7100.pdfThe President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation (PMBCO) has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar is under sealed a indictment, which the United States Justice Department could not confirm to anyone because of the nature of the indictment. The spokesman for the organisation, Festus Keyamo (SAN), in a statement said: “We have heard the lame defence that the US Justice Department said it has no pending case against Atiku Abubakar. That is only a defence for the ignorant ones. In the United States, there are indictments the Justice Department can confirm to the world. "But there is another category of indictments known as sealed indictment that the Justice Department cannot confirm to anyone. These indictments are sealed under the orders of a judge. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has sealed indictment waiting for him in the US. The day he visits US, not as candidate in an election, he will face charges".
https://thenationonlineng.net/atiku-sealed-indictment-us/On December 19th 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission @officialEFCC tweeted: "Adoke Returns to Nigeria to Face Corruption Charges. Former Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has arrived Nigeria from Dubai. The ex-AGF left Dubai following pressure from EFCC. The EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu, and Dubai authorities have held series of meeting in respect of the former Attorney General. He was accompanied by INTERPOL officers on Emirates Airlines Flight 785. The aircraft departed the Emirati commercial capital at about 11am Dubai time (8am Nigerian time) and touched down at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja at 3:45pm. Officers of the EFCC were on ground at the airport when he arrived."
https://twitter.com/officialEFCC/status/1207690205144190979?s=20&t=xprDPsYp_17x7P7cAXksiwUnofficial Translation from Pidgin English: Adoke is facing a money laundering accusation relating to the sale of a Nigerian oil field worth $1.3 billion in 2011. In November, Interpol arresed Adoke in Dubai over the role he played in the Malabu oil field deal.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-50860379Government lawyers for Italy don carry case give senior executives for Royal Dutch Shell, oil company wey dey produce crude oil for Nigeria, on top how dem bribe government officials for Nigeria $1.1bn for di oil bloc OPL 245 for 2011. Di people wey go face trial na Malcolm Brinded CBE, wey be di second most powerful person for di company when dem do di deal dat time. Even Shell sef dey face bribery charge join di four people wey prosecutors don mention. Dis case come after di company confess say dem know say di billion dollar payment wey dem give former Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete, no go enter government pocket, but dem go use am settle people wey matter so dem go fit get wetin dem want.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41629326The Federal Government has filed fresh 42-count charges against former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke and six others over alleged fraud in the $1.1 billion Malabu Oil deal. In a charge number CR/151/2020, filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Federal Government accused Adoke and others of receiving gratifications to facilitate a fraudulent oil deal. It said during his tenure as AGF, Adoke negotiated controversial agreements that ceded OPL 245 to Shell and Eni who paid about $1.1 billion to accounts controlled by a former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete.
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-files-fresh-charges-against-adoke-others-over-malabu-oil-deal/Nigerian court has issued has granted the prayers of the country's anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for a warrant of arrest against Dan Etete, a former Minister of Petroleum, and Mohammed Adoke, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, who were implicated in the controversial Malabu Oil scandal.
https://www.pulse.ng/bi/politics/nigerian-court-orders-arrest-of-dante-etete-mohammed-adoke-others-over-malabu-oil/1bnv1hsA Nigerian judge issued arrest warrants for two former ministers and an Eni manager over the sale of offshore oilfield OPL 245 by Malabu Oil and Gas in 2011, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Twitter on Wednesday. Dan Etete, former petroleum minister, ex-attorney general Mohammed Adoke and Eni manager Roberto Casula “are to be arrested anywhere they are found”, the EFCC said in a statement. It said it followed a ruling by a judge in the capital, Abuja. Eni called the move “disproportionate and detrimental” to the rights of its manager.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-oil-idUSKCN1RT21ZSenator Senate, National Assembly Akwa Ibom North-East
2019 - now
On December 01, 2022, People's Gazette reported, "Senator Bassey Albert Akpan has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to a 42-year jail term in a ruling that will likely put his governorship bid to a permanent rest".
https://gazettengr.com/court-sentences-senator-bassey-akpan-to-42-years-for-stealing-public-funds/President Olusegun Obasanjo has fired his Labour Minister, Hussaini Akwanga, over allegations that he took bribes to approve the award of a major government contract to a French electronics group. He is the first cabinet casualty in Obasanjo's four-year-old anti-corruption drive. The federal government said in a statement on Thursday that Akwanga had been relieved of his post "in line with this administration’s commitment to transparency and to protect the integrity" of the government. The French electronics company SAGEM won a US $214 million contract two years ago to produce national identity cards for Nigeria. Akwanga was the top bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time. He and several other officials are alleged to have taken large bribes to approve the deal. As Akwanga was sacked, Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) announced that it had launched a probe into the SAGEM contract in which the role of Akwanga, former interior minister Sunday Afolabi, his then deputy Mahmud Shatta and a number of other leading figures in the ruling People’s Democratic Party would be investigated. This is the first major investigation conducted by the ICPC, which was set up by Obasanjo shortly after his election to the presidency in 1999. The former army general has pledged to rid Nigeria of widespread graft, which is seen as a major obstacle hindering the development in Africa’s leading oil producer and most populous country. Obasanjo was re-elected for another four years in May this year, but the constitution bars him from standing for a third term. Critics of the president have often described his anti-corruption stance as a charade, pointing out that not a single conviction has been secured since the establishment of the ICPC, despite clear signs that corruption continues unabated in Nigeria. Announcing the SAGEM investigation, ICPC chairman Mustapha Akanbi told a Commonwealth Business Forum on Thursday that government officials had "collected colossal sums of money in local and foreign currencies" as kick-backs on the contract. The retired judge said his commission had enough evidence to secure the conviction of the suspects who would be charged in court soon. At least three people have been arrested in connection with the investigation, including Niyi Adelagun, the man who is believed to have distributed the bribes on behalf of SAGEM. The Commonwealth Business Forum was part of preliminary activities to the opening of the Commonwealth Head of Government’s Meeting in the capital Abuja this weekend. The summit, attended by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, opened on Friday with 54 leaders from Britain and its former colonies in attendance. "I find it an unusual coincidence that Obasanjo chose a time when Nigeria was in the spotlight, with so many international visitors around, to fire the minister," said Banji Akerele, a banker and financial analyst. "Certainly there was an intention to give maximum advertisement to this public chastising of a minister over corruption." He said Obasanjo’s anti-corruption crusade was losing credibility after failing to secure a single conviction in more than four years, and was in dire need of dramatic action to revive it. "I think this clampdown on corruption inside the government will provide a new impetus to the crusade," said Akerele. "It remains to be seen if it will be sustained or if the situation will return to business-as-usual once the spotlight goes away."
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/47558/nigeria-labour-minister-sacked-corruption-scandalGovernor Bayelsa State Government Bayelsa
2003 - 2005
The Department of Justice has forfeited $401,931 in assets traceable to Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton announced today.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-forfeits-more-400000-corruption-proceeds-linked-former-nigerian-governorA Nigerian court has seized $21m from bank accounts linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former oil minister who faces corruption allegations. Abdulazeez Anka, a federal high court judge, ordered on Monday the immediate forfeiture of the sum allegedly held in local bank accounts by Alison-Madueke, who was once one of Africa’s most prominent female politicians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/8/28/nigeria-seizes-21m-linked-to-diezani-alison-maduekeNigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK. She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts... The 63-year-old, who has been on bail since her arrest in London in 2015, has denied corruption allegations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66582585Governor Sokoto State Government Sokoto
2003 - 2007
A Sokoto state High Court on Tuesday presided over by Justice Bello Abbas discharged and acquitted former Governor Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa of alleged N13bn financial fraud in a case filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) against him. Others also discharged and acquitted along with the former governor were; Alhaji Salihu Maibuhu Gummi and Nasiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, younger brother to the PDP presidential aspirant. The presiding judge observed that the evidence advanced by the prosecuting counsel lacked substance, contradictory and imaginary and therefore, did not substantially prove case of fraud against the plaintiff.
https://procyonnews.com/breaking-efcc-court-discharges-bafarawa-two-others/"The US Targeted His Assets. Nigeria Made Him Budget Minister - BNN Bloomberg Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appointed Atiku Bagudu, who the US has accused of helping a former dictator loot the country of billions of dollars in the 1990s, as his budget minister. Bagudu hasn’t been convicted of any crime but in an ongoing forfeiture lawsuit before a federal judge in Washington, the US Justice Department alleges he was part of a group headed by former military ruler Sani Abacha that “embezzled, misappropriated and extorted billions from the government of Nigeria.” The former governor and senator was sworn in on Monday as minister of budget and economic planning. The US allegations have not been proven and ignore the longstanding resolution of all disputes between the politician and the Nigerian state, according to Bagudu’s legal representative.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-us-targeted-his-assets-nigeria-made-him-budget-minister-1.1962353Speaker House of Representatives, National Assembly
1999 - 1999
The government of Nigeria has granted pardon to a former speaker of parliament who was convicted last year of perjury and forgery. The government said the presidential pardon to Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was decided at a meeting of the Council of State which includes governors of all Nigeria's states in Abuja.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/773726.stmhe speaker of Nigeria's house of representatives, Salisu Buhari, broke down in tears as he formally resigned following press allegations of forgery and perjury. His decision comes after days of mounting pressure during which he has consistently denied the accusations made against him. In an emotional speech to assembly members, Mr Buhari said: "I apologise to you. I apologise to the nation. I apologise to my family and friends for all the distress I have caused them. "I was misled in error by zeal to serve the nation," Mr Buhari said. "I hope the nation will forgive me and give me the opportunity to serve again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/401123.stmGovernor Kebbi State Government Kebbi
2012 - 2016
The ex-governor who is to be arraigned at the High Court of Kebbi State, Birnin Kebbi, allegedly conspired with the then Commissioner of Finance, Mohammed Bello Tunga and the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Garba Rabiu Kamba to misappropriate funds that were meant for certain provisions for the successful conduct of the 2015 general election.
http://ht.ly/YDwu30j4Y8OSenator Senate, National Assembly Plateau Central
2015 - 2019
The Defendant was convicted of 15 out of the 23-count amended charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public funds and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for criminal breach of trust and two years for misappropriation of public funds, to run concurrently. The Court of Appeal, in an appeal filed by the convict, upheld the conviction of the appellant but reduced his sentence to 10 years. The Supreme Court also upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal.
https://corruptioncases.ng/cases/frn-vs-joshua-dariye-former-governor-ofSenator Senate, National Assembly Enugu West
2019 - now
"A Nigerian senator has been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London earlier on Thursday. The 15-year-old alleged victim has been taken into care. The Met Police said agencies were working to support him. The court heard that Mr Ekweremadu, who is both a politician and a barrister, was deputy president of the Senate."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61908876"Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man for his kidney, in the first such case under modern slavery laws...."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-65013545.ampA Nigerian senator has been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London earlier on Thursday. The 15-year-old alleged victim has been taken into care. The Met Police said agencies were working to support him. The court heard that Mr Ekweremadu, who is both a politician and a barrister, was deputy president of the Senate."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61908876The charge, signed by Bala Sanga on behalf of the EFCC’s Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, also said Gbinigie conspired with Munamuna Seidougha, Amaran Joseph and Dauzia Loya Etete, who are at large, sometime in 2013 in Abuja to dishonestly used forged form CAC 7 and Board Resolution of Malabu Oil and Gas Limited and the letter of resignation of one Mohammed Sani to open a bank account to receive $401,540,000.
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-files-fresh-charges-against-adoke-others-over-malabu-oil-deal/Nigerian court has issued has granted the prayers of the country's anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for a warrant of arrest against Dan Etete, a former Minister of Petroleum, and Mohammed Adoke, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, who were implicated in the controversial Malabu Oil scandal.
Dan Etete, former petroleum minister, ex-attorney general Mohammed Adoke and Eni manager Roberto Casula “are to be arrested anywhere they are found”, the EFCC said in a statement. It said it followed a ruling by a judge in the capital, Abuja.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-oil-idUSKCN1RT21ZIn 2011, as a former Minister of Petroleum under military dictator General Sani Abacha, Dan Etete facilitated the transfer of payment of $1.1 billion to Malabu Oil and Gas. Malabu was set up in 1998 by Dan Etete using a false identity so as to award himself a lucrative oil block, OPL 245,[14] for which he paid only $2 million of the $20 million legally required by the state. At the time of Goodluck Jonathan's government, Dan Etete was said to have helped facilitate the transfer of payment from Shell and Eni to Malabu Oil and Gas. The Economist reports that only $800 million out of the $1.1 billion meant for Malabu Oil and Gas was ever remitted by the Nigerian government. The Nigerian Attorney General, Mohammed Bello Adoke, who signed the documents involved in facilitating the payments, denied the rest was shared by public officials.[15] The transfer to convicted felon,Dan Etete, only came to public light when a Russian lawyer that claimed to have helped Malabu negotiate a deal with the Jonathan's government sued in New York for a $66 million unpaid commission. Both Shell and Eni, as of September 2014, are under investigation for corruption[17] by the UK and Italy authorities for the incidence. In 2017, e-mails obtained by anti-corruption charities Global Witness and Finance Uncovered apparently revealed that Shell's executives were negotiating [20] directly with Dan Etete for a year before the oil deal that corruptly enriched Dan Etete was finalised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_EteteMr Fani-Kayode, alongside a former finance minister Nenadi Usman; Yusuf Danjuma, a former chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Ltd., are standing trial for money laundering...EFCC filed a 17-count charge bordering on N4.6 billion money laundering against the defendants before a former judge, Mohammed Aikawa...The defendants had each pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail...In the charge, the defendants were alleged to have committed the offences between January and March 2015 in Lagos...At various times, they were alleged to have unlawfully retained over N4.6 billion, which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of unlawful acts of stealing and corruption...Meanwhile, in counts 15 to 17, Mr Fani-Kayode and Olubode Oke, who is said to be at large, were alleged to have made cash payments of about N30 million, in excess of the amount allowed by law, without going through a financial institution...The said payments are alleged to have been made to Paste Poster Co (PPC) of No 125 Lewis St., Lagos, above the amounts allowed by law. All offences were said to have contravened sections 15 (3) (4), 16 (2) (b), and 16 (5) of the Money laundering (prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012.
https://gazettengr.com/fani-kayodes-n4-6-billion-money-laundering-trial-stalled-at-lagos-court/?tztc=1Governor Delta State Government Delta
2003 - 2007
Through an application to register and enforce two orders from United Kingdom courts, the Department of Justice has secured a restraining order against more than $3 million in corruption proceeds located in the United States related to James Onanefe Ibori, the former governor of Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta State, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-restrains-more-3-million-corruption-proceeds-related-former-governor-nigeriaGovernor Edo State Government Edo
2003 - 2007
A Nigerian court fined a former governor of the southwestern state of Edo 3.5 million naira ($25,754) for corruption which he intends paying as an alternative to serving six months in jail. Lucky Igbinedion, who was charged in January with embezzling 2.9 billion naira ($21.33 million), pleaded guilty to one count of corruption in a plea bargain at a Federal High Court in the southeastern city of Enugu on Thursday, officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-corruption-idUKLJ52859420081219Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday sealed two choice houses belonging to former Edo State governor, Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion, over an alleged N3.2 billion scam. The assets, a house on No. 5, Danube Crescent in high brow Maitama and another located at No. 7, Justice Fatai William Street, off Justice Sowemimo Street, Asokoro, are valued at over N500 million each, an operative disclosed during the sealing off exercise.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/n3-2bn-scam-efcc-seals-igbinedions-houses/Secretary to the Government of the Federation Federal Republic of Nigeria
2015 - 2017
"Last year, a Senate ad hoc committee, chaired by Shehu Sani, discovered that N200 million was paid for non-existent grass in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Yobe State. The company was linked to the former SGF. It was also discovered that at the time the contracts were awarded, Lawal was still a signatory to the company’s accounts. He was also a director in the firm which got the contract. In its report, the committee recommended Lawal’s dismissal for corrupt practices. The presidency rejected the recommendation on the grounds that Lawal was not given fair hearing. Thereafter, the committee convened another hearing and came up with the same conclusion. The recommendation was forwarded to Buhari, who, in turn, mandated his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo and two others, to investigate allegations of violations of law and due process against Lawal by the Senate. Buhari also directed Lawal’s immediate suspension, pending the outcome of the investigation. Osinbajo submitted a report to Buhari in August, when he returned from medical check-up in London, the United Kingdom. On Monday, October 30, 2017, Buhari sacked Lawal and directed the anti-graft agency to proceed with investigation of the former SGF. In his place, the president appointed Boss Gadi Mustapha, former managing director of the National Inland Waterways Agency (NIWA)."
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/fresh-trouble-for-babachir-lawal/Member House of Representatives, National Assembly Bagwai/Shanono
2003 - 2007
The trial judge found the defendant guilty on the amended 3-count charge and convicted and sentenced him to seven (7) years in jail on count one and two, and five (5) years on count three. The sentences are to run concurrently. The court also ordered the convict to return the sum of $500,000 he collected from his victim.
https://corruptioncases.ng/cases/frn-vs-farouq-lawan-former-member-of-hoAbdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
https://www.efcc.gov.ng/wanted/1533-abdulrasheed-abdullahi-mainaAppointed in 2010 by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan to sanitize the corruption-ridden pension office, Maina, three years later, was alleged to have misappropriated pension funds to the tune of billions. A senate committee set up to investigate the allegation, summoned him, and issued a bench warrant for his arrest, but to no avail. Whilst it is a fact that no court conclusively prosecuted him, the charge of impropriety seemed to have weighed on him hence he fled the country, and was thus dismissed from the civil service and declared wanted. Despite the fact that law enforcement institutions such as the Senate, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Federal High Court, the Nigerian Police and the Interpol had been on Maina’s trail for years to cause him to defend himself, Maina, surprisingly, still found his way into the civil service, got his job back with accelerated promotion from level 14 to level 16. He also got a backlog of salary arrears to the tune of N22 million paid by the government. Maina must have been heading towards becoming a hero of sorts before the anti-climax of this drama. News about this impunity got to the public and the media became the catalyst that caused the administration to enforce the law.
https://guardian.ng/opinion/nigeria-and-the-maina-case/An Abuja Federal High Court Monday sentenced a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina to 61 years imprisonment. Justice Okon Abang sentenced Maina after he was found guilty of money laundering and stealing pension funds to the tune of N2 billion. The sentence will run concurrently to make him spend only eight years in jail.
https://dailypost.ng/2021/11/09/abdulrasheed-maina-how-ex-pension-boss-journeyed-to-jail/The public is hereby notified that Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for offences bordering on Procurement Fraud and Obtaining by False Pretence.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211129025258/https://www.efccnigeria.org/efcc/wanted/1533-abdulrasheed-abdullahi-mainaMember House of Representatives, National Assembly Bomadi/Patani
2023 - now
International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR): "...a former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nicholas Mutu, was arraigned before the Federal High Court, Abuja on an 11-count charge bordering on fraud and abuse of office."
https://www.icirnigeria.org/efcc-drags-oldest-parliamentarian-to-court-over-alleged-n320-million-fraud/Senator Senate, National Assembly Enugu East
2019 - now
People's Gazette on October 4, 2022 reported: "The 2009 complaint seen by The Gazette said Mr Nnamani, whom the FBI described as an American citizen, connived with his sister Chinero Nwigwe to steal public funds when he led Enugu between May 1999 and May 2007. Peter Mbah, Sam Ejiofor and Chika Ohaa were also named in the court documents as Mr Nnamani’s co-conspirators."
https://gazettengr.com/chimaroke-nnamani-stole-41-8-million-from-enugu-paid-millions-of-dollars-in-cash-for-florida-properties-fbi/Senator Senate, National Assembly Delta North
2019 - now
The Senator representing Delta North in the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, who has been on the run months after the Court of Appeal Lagos Division convicted and sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment for money laundering, is finally in prison custody. The lawmaker who was intercepted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at a Hospital in Lagos on Monday, February 6, was finally remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre today, February 8, 2023, to commence his prison term. The Court of Appeal had in a judgement it delivered on July 1, 2022, sentenced him to prison after it convicted him on a two-count charge of money laundering and also ordered the winding up of his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd in line with the provision of Section 22 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2021, and their properties forfeited to the Federal Government.
https://twitter.com/officialefcc/status/1623349593705443329?s=12Governor Taraba State Government Taraba
2003 - 2007
The Defendant was convicted and sentenced to 14 years for criminal breach of trust, 2 years for criminal misappropriation, 7 years for gratification and 5 years for obtaining by dishonesty, with the sentences to run concurrently. The defendant, dissatisfied with the judgement, approached the Court of Appeal, which also upheld the conviction and reduced the sentence to 12 years. The Court of Appeal also fined the convict N495 million. The Supreme Court also agreed with the Court of Appeal and affirmed the guilt and conviction by upholding the Court of Appeal’s reduction of the 14 years imprisonment to 12 years. The Apex Court, however, in a unanimous decision, set aside the fine imposed on the convict by the Court of Appeal.
https://corruptioncases.ng/cases/frn-vs-jolly-nyame-former-governor-of-tGovernor Anambra State Government Anambra
2018 - 2022
The Economic and Financial crimes commission, EFCC has arrested the immediate past Gov of Anambra state, Mr Willie Obiano at the Lagos airport at about 8 pm, while he was trying to flee Nigeria to Houston Texas in the USA Details of the arrest are currently sketchy but unconfirmed sources claimed it is connected to financial impropriety while in office. The former governor is said to have been arrested by eagle-eyed operatives of the EFCC while trying to escape Nigeria for Houston in the United States of America on Thursday night.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/breaking-efcc-arrests-willie-obiano-at-lagos-airport/Recall that Vanguard had reported on November 24 2021, that the EFCC had placed the ex-Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on a watch list, a move described by the state government as laughable. Since coming into office in 2013, Governor Obiano has never been linked with any scam or fraud-related controversy but his sudden placement on the EFCC watch list raises serious concern among his followers and political associates.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/breaking-efcc-arrests-willie-obiano-at-lagos-airport/Senator Senate, National Assembly Anambra North
2019 - now
The EFCC, in the 25 counts, accused them of conspiracy to commit money laundering, transferring, taking control and taking possession of proceeds of fraud, aiding and abetting money laundering and opening anonymous bank accounts. Specifically, the prosecution alleged in two of the 25 counts that Ms Oduah and Ms Odita opened anonymous “Private Banking Nominee” dollar and naira accounts with First Bank, thereby committing an offence contrary to section 11(1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended) and punishable under section 11(4) (a) of the same Act. PREMIUM TIMES’ review of the charges showed that CCECC Nigeria Limited allegedly transferred over N2.5billion into the naira account of Private Banking Nominee between March 31 and June 6, 2014. Dangote adbanner 728x90_2 (1) In seven of the counts where CCECC is indicted singly and along with Ms Oduah and Ms Oditah, the company was accused of conspiring with the women to commit money laundering, and directly transferring to Private Banking Nominee account various sums of money totalling N2,583,385,246 which it “reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity to wit: fraud…” The prosecution alleged for instance in Count 17, that CCECC Nigeria, "on various dates between March 5, 2014, and May 30, 2014" in Abuja “directly transferred the sum of N868409,349.00 from your account with Zenith Bank Place to Private Banking Nominee Account 2024414450 domiciled with First Bank Plc, which money you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: fraud…"
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/443108-revealed-how-nigerian-senator-stella-oduah-chinese-firm-ccecc-others-laundered-n5billion-in-five-months-efcc.htmlOur report yesterday disclosed that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) paid approximately $1.6 million to buy the two cars from Coscharis Motors Limited in Lagos, meaning that each car cost close to $800,000. But our investigations with car sale companies revealed that the NCAA could have got eight, not two, BMW armored cars for their money. According to Vista BMW in Coconut Creek in Florida, a fully armored BMW 760 Li car built to withstand AK 47-7.62x39 ammo and lower caliber weapons costs only $162, 195. Also, a quote provided by the armored car ballistic division of the International Armoring Corporation in Centerville, Utah revealed that each of the BMW cars could have been provided to the NCAA for $200,000 plus the cost of shipping to Nigeria.
https://saharareporters.com/2013/10/16/nigerias-minister-aviation-armored-bmw-car-scandal-car-sells-only-170k-europe-and-americaMinister of State Mines and Steel Development
2019 - 2022
An Abia State Magistrate Court sitting in Umuahia ,has convicted the former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uche Ogah for forgery, following a criminal complaint brought by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. The Abia State chapter of APC had sued Ogah alleging that he did not participate in the governorship primary election of the party held on May 26, 2022 but went ahead and forged the party’s direct primary election result sheet with intent that it may be acted on as genuine. The party stated that the forgery perpetrated by Ogah was prejudicial to the party and its authentic governorship candidate in Abia State, (Chief Ikechi Emenike) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 465 of the Criminal Code (as applicable in Abia) and punishable under Section 467. Delivering judgment on the suit No. UMSC/362/2022, Magistrate Ngozi N. Nwangwa,found the defendant/respondent guilty as charged.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/abia-court-convicts-ex-minister-for-forging-apc-gov-primary-result-orders-arrest/Member House of Representatives, National Assembly Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside
1999 - 2003
A former Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Onadeko Onamusi, has been charged to court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over his alleged involvement in the award and execution of a N68.7 million contract. Onamusi who was arraigned before Justice C. N. Oji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Apo, Abuja, on an 18-count charge, was accused by the Commission of using his private company, Haines and Baines, to execute several contracts for the National Assembly while working as a Senior Legislative Aide in the same place. ICPC told the court that several contracts for buying ambulance vehicles, supply of hospital equipment and drugs for Primary Health Centres, as well as construction of classrooms for some selected schools in six communities of Ogun East Senatorial District, were awarded to Haines and Baines, where the Senior Legislative Aide doubles as a Managing Director, an action that violates Sections 12 and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
https://icpc.gov.ng/2018/11/28/icpc-docks-ex-national-assembly-member-over-n68-7m-contract-fraud/Minister Niger Delta
2011 - 2014
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting in Maitama, for allegedly diverting N1.97 billion meant for the compensation of owners of properties on Eket Urban section of the East-West Road in Eket, Akwa Ibom State. Orubebe, who had failed to appear in court on two previous occasions, is facing a six-count charge before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, alongside an Assistant Director with the Ministry of Niger-Delta Affairs, Mr. Oludare Davis Alaba, and the Director of Contracts, Gitto Costruzioni Generali Nig. Ltd., Mr. Ephraim Towede Zari.
https://icpc.gov.ng/2016/09/08/icpc-arraigns-orubebe-others-alleged-n1-965bn-fraud/She was made a Director of NICON Insurance Plc between 2001 – 2003 by PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, who also appointed her Minister of Housing, Lands and Urban Development in 2003 – 2005. Within the short period of her stay in the Federal Ministry of Housing, she made indelible impact on the ministry.
https://oopplc.com/peopledetail/hon-chief-mrs-alice-mobolaji-osomo"In another recent scandal, Housing Minister Mobolaji Osomo was sacked for selling government properties in a wealthy Lagos area without due process to government officials and prominent citizens, including close relatives of Obasanjo’s wife, a fact that caused the president to express personal embarrassment. Critics allege that the presidency had been aware of the deals and, unlike the other disgraced officials, Osomo faces no charges."
https://saiia.org.za/research/is-nigerias-anti-corruption-crusade-for-real/Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has dismissed the Minister of Housing, Alice Mobolaji Osomo, as part of an on-going anti-corruption drive to clean up Nigeria's world image. A statement from the president's office said Mr. Osomo was sacked after the sale of public property violated instructions. According to a BBC report, the Minister allocated more than 200 properties to top officials rather than going on public sale. President Obasanjo has been vocal in tackling corruption and reportedly warned officials their greed is undermining his attempts to win international debt relief. In March, he fired Education Minister Fabian Osuji in a broadcast to the nation during which he said 14 people had been involved in fraud and accused Mr. Osuji of offering a bribe of 55 million naira (US$417,000) to senate president Adolfus Wabara in order to get a bigger budget for his ministry.
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Nigerian_Housing_Minister_fired_in_anti-corruption_drive"In the last two months, two ministers have been fired. The education minister, Fabian Osuji, was sacked for allegedly bribing Senate president Adolphus Wabara and others in the National Assembly to pass an inflated education budget. Wabara, Osuji, four senators and a member of the House of Representatives were charged with 15 counts of corruption over the affair."
https://saiia.org.za/research/is-nigerias-anti-corruption-crusade-for-real/On May 03, 2022, The U.S Department of Justice reported, "A 45-year-old resident of Lekki, Nigeria, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to claim hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic-related unemployment benefits, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Abidemi Rufai has been in custody since his arrest at New York’s JFK airport in May 2021. At the time of his arrest, Rufai was the Special Assistant to the Governor of Nigeria’s Ogun State."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/nigerian-citizen-pleads-guilty-covid-19-unemployment-fraud-washington-and-17-other"[Abidemi Ganiu Rufai] was ordered to repay more than $600,000 and in September, he was sentenced to five years in prison. His Cartier watch and gold chain, which the Justice Department had valued at $45,000, were recently put up for auction by the federal government. The high bids for the items as of early December would repay less than 1 percent of his debt.".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/03/covid-aid-fraud-rufai/Governor Katsina State Government Katsina
2011 - 2015
Governor Aminu Masari’s government has withdrawn a misappropriation of N11 billion Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) fund case against Katsina’s ex-Governor Ibrahim Shema. In 2016, the Katsina government and the EFCC sued Mr Shema and others over alleged misappropriation of N11 billion ALGON funds...“The state government filed a nolle prosecute. This is the power of a state attorney-general under Section 211 of the 1999 constitution as (amended), to either institute an action on a criminal case against any person before any court of law,” he explained. “The attorney general can take over any criminal proceedings against any person, as well as power to discontinue with any case at any stage of the proceeding before judgment is entered.” Mr Umar added, “The attorney-general exercised that power and we went with it and the court gladly accepted that position of the attorney general to discontinue with the case. To that effect, the former governor and Lawal Dankaba were discharged from all charges against them. That is the position of the state government at the moment. But the EFCC’s case is still ongoing.”
https://gazettengr.com/masari-withdraws-n11-billion-fraud-case-against-katsinas-ex-governor-shema/President Federal Republic of Nigeria
2023 - now
Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has court cases around massive frauds hanging on his neck as his supporters and proxies drum support for him for the 2023 presidency. Checks by SaharaReporters revealed that the fraud cases against Tinubu dated as far back as 1998, raising questions on how the former governor struggled to delay the axe of the law.
http://saharareporters.com/2021/02/24/tinubu’s-fraud-cases-linger-court-amidst-2023-presidential-ambitionDapo Apara, a Nigerian chartered accountant, has accused a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; a consulting firm, Alpha-beta, and a former commissioner in the state, Akin Doherty, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and sundry corrupt practices. Mr Apara, in writ of summons deposed to at a Lagos high court, claimed that Mr Tinubu and Alpha-beta reneged on certain agreements reached in the past about the management and control of the consulting firm.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/419179-tinubu-alpha-beta-others-accused-of-fraud-tax-evasion-money-laundering.htmlOn January 10, 1992, a court order is obtained to freeze some of Tinubu’s bank accounts containing the suspected proceeds of heroin trafficking in excess of $1,400,000.
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/bola-ahmed-tinubu-from-drug-lordSenator Senate, National Assembly Kaduna South
2011 - 2015
Mr Fani-Kayode, alongside a former finance minister Nenadi Usman; Yusuf Danjuma, a former chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Ltd., are standing trial for money laundering...EFCC filed a 17-count charge bordering on N4.6 billion money laundering against the defendants before a former judge, Mohammed Aikawa...The defendants had each pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail...In the charge, the defendants were alleged to have committed the offences between January and March 2015 in Lagos...At various times, they were alleged to have unlawfully retained over N4.6 billion, which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of unlawful acts of stealing and corruption...Meanwhile, in counts 15 to 17, Mr Fani-Kayode and Olubode Oke, who is said to be at large, were alleged to have made cash payments of about N30 million, in excess of the amount allowed by law, without going through a financial institution...The said payments are alleged to have been made to Paste Poster Co (PPC) of No 125 Lewis St., Lagos, above the amounts allowed by law. All offences were said to have contravened sections 15 (3) (4), 16 (2) (b), and 16 (5) of the Money laundering (prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012.
https://gazettengr.com/fani-kayodes-n4-6-billion-money-laundering-trial-stalled-at-lagos-court/?tztc=1Senator Senate, National Assembly Zamfara West
2015 - 2019
At the ongoing trial of a former Governor of Zamfara State and serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ahmed Sani Yerima, over alleged diversion of state funds, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has made its final submission in a no-case submission by the defence counsel before Justice Bello Tukur Gummi of Zamfara State High Court 5, sitting in Gusau... The Commission’s prosecuting counsel led by Mrs. Christiana Onuogu, after calling six witnesses and tendering 25 exhibits made their final submission while counsel to the ex-governor, Mahmud Magaji (SAN) tendered 8 exhibits... In her submission, Mrs. Onuogu argued that the prosecution had proved the essential elements of the offences with which the former Governor was being charged, and that the principle of a no-case submission made by him failed where the defendant had explanations to make in response to the charges against him... She also averred that the defendant’s confessional statement that he had diverted part of the One Billion Naira (N1, 000 000,000) UBA loan to other projects and services corroborated the charges preferred against him. The action, according to her, was contrary to and punishable under Section 22 (5) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000...
https://icpc.gov.ng/2017/11/17/n1bn-fraud-case-icpc-makes-final-presentation-no-case-submission-former-zamfara-governor/