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Malabu N155bn fraud: How Keystone Bank helped presidency, ministers broker huge money laundering deal

Dan Etete

Malabu fraud: British Court asks Etete to pay N16.5 billion to middleman

byNicholas Ibekwe
July 18, 2013
2 min read
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The court faulted Mr. Etete’s claim that he was not an owner of Malabu.

In continuation of the intrigues surrounding the fraudulent transfer of $1.1 billion to Malabu Oil and Gas, a British High Court on Wednesday ruled that convicted felon and former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete, should pay at least N16.5 billion ($110.5 million) to Emeka Obi, the owner of Energy Venture Partners for helping him facilitate the sale of the controversial oil block OPL-245.

Mr. Obi had brought charges against Mr. Etete claiming he was owed $200 million for helping to secure the deal that led to the sale of the oil block to global energy giants, Shell and ENi, on behalf of Malabu.

Dismissing Mr. Etete’s claim that he is not the owner of Malabu oil but merely a consultant for the dodgy company, Lady Justice Gloster said: “I find as a fact that, from its incorporation and at all material times, Chief Etete had a substantial beneficial interest in Malabu.”

The judge also confirmed what PREMIUM TIMES had reported that Mr. Etete seized the opportunity provided by the death of late dictator, Sani Abacha, in June 1998 to take full control of the shady company and cut out the dictator’s interest using a collection of aliases including the that of his yacht, “Amaran,” to appropriate the company to himself.

The statement by the court further confirms that the Jonathan administration represented by Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, facilitated the fleecing of $1.1 billion of potential public funds by acting as a conduit for the transfer of the money to Mr. Etete, a convicted money launderer.

U.K. based energy campaign organisation, Global Witness, while expressing its disappointment in the ruling, says by not considering the legality of the deal itself, Nigerians were surcharged with over a billion dollars of public fund.

“From Global Witness’s point of view, the decision before Court effectively came down to whether or not to give cash to a crook who had stolen the block worth over a billion dollars from the Nigerian people, or to the middleman who claims he brokered the deal to sell it on.” said Simon Taylor, Director at Global Witness.

“Given that there are serious unanswered questions about the legality of OPL-245 deal, and the way it was put together, it is surely a scandal that the Court’s only consideration was where to send the money. The first question that should have been considered and fully investigated is to the legitimacy of the deal in the first place.”

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Meanwhile the House of Representatives has summoned Mr. Adoke to appear before it to explain a letter it allegedly wrote to a U.K. based organisation claiming he has been cleared of all wrong doings by federal legislators.

A report by the house has accused Mr. Adoke of being the main facilitator of the fraud. He denied this saying the government only acted as an intermediary and knows nothing about the fraudulent nature of the deal.

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The House will soon commence deliberation on the content of the report.

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