DISPATCHES
This has been given added salience after recent media coverage about the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari's government to prosecute such figures as former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and oil trader Kola Aluko whom it accused of grand corruption...
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Vol 62 No 17 |
- MINING
- ENERGY
In Nigeria Glencore paid $110m during 2012-14 to companies run by Kola Aluko a middleman who is alleged to bribed former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke to secure $1...
Standard Chartered also a stern critic of Buhari-nomics has admitted 'mistakes' in its role in the current MTN fiasco and was named by the US Justice Department in July last year as one of the banks operating accounts for oil deal broker Kola Aluko who is under investigation for money laundering...
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yacht-owning Kola Aluko...
Other documents just obtained by AC also show that Sanomi's debtors include Kola Aluko the beleaguered CEO of Atlantic Energy another oil trading company that boomed almost overnight in Jonathan's time...
The filing named Kolawole Aluko and his business partner Olajide Omokore as using their relationship with Allison-Madueke to win hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of production and supply contracts (AC Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase)...
The British freezing order secured under the Proceeds of Crime Act names Benedict Peters Christopher Aire and lawyer Chidi Donald Amamgbo as defendants in the case alongside Kola Aluko Jide Omokore and Allison-Madueke...
Although no business people or government officials were indicted the statement of claim accuses Kolawole Aluko and his business partner Olajide Omokore of bribing the then Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke to win implausibly profitable production and supply contracts (AC Vol 58 No 8 Ambition and ethics)...
The Houston statement of claim sheds much light on how Allison-Madueke operated with Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore...
Help from my friendsSome of the earliest and most surprising of the Diezani-approved deals included the Strategic Alliance Agreements awarded to Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore's Atlantic Energy and Drilling Concept in 2011...
Also under fire from Sanusi were the Strategic Alliance Agreements between companies such as Bashorun Jide Omokore's and Kola Aluko's Atlantic Energy unaudited third-party financing claims of about $2 bn...