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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,938 posts)
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:15 AM Oct 2021

SECRET TROVE ILLUMINATES THE LIVES OF BILLIONAIRES

When three of Africa’s wealthiest people wanted to win favors from the Nigerian oil minister, they didn’t pay cash, according to company filings and court papers describing the alleged transactions.

Instead, the oil tycoons arranged to influence her with shell companies, each one holding a valuable piece of London real estate, according to the documents.

Other shell companies owned by the oilmen provided the minister and her family with a chauffeured car, and they shipped her luxury furnishings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. prosecutors later alleged.

With billions in Nigerian oil revenue at stake, the men engaged in “an international conspiracy,” according to U.S. prosecutors, offering millions of dollars’ worth of gifts in exchange for “lucrative business opportunities.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/billionaires-offshore-accounts/?itid=hp-top-table-high

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KPN

(15,642 posts)
2. Yes. And it's alive and well here in the good old US of A.
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:35 AM
Oct 2021

On Super Steroids — just look at TFG. He’s our Nigerian Minister.

 

joetheman

(1,450 posts)
4. I'll say it again. World-wide greed and corruption by the people at the top in every nation is the
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 09:44 AM
Oct 2021

main cause of the global poverty and environmental catastrophes.

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