Malabu was a shell company set up by President Sani Abacha's Oil Minister Chief Dan Etete to hold the ownership of OPL 245...
Vol 55 No 10 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
This is a shell company controlled by Chief Dan Etete aka Dauzia Loya Etete the Oil Minister under General Sani Abacha who ruled in 1993-98...
Dan Etete aka Chief Dauzia Loya Etete an Oil Minister in the notoriously corrupt regime of the late General Sani Abacha had in 1998 awarded a shell company he controlled Malabu Oil and Gas the rights to one of the richest oil deposits in Nigerian waters (AC Vol 40 No 7 Muddy waters)...
In February 2012 he petitioned the EFCC alleging conspiracy forgery and ‘uttering of forged documents for the purpose of misappropriating the funds of Malabu Oil and Gas by Chief Dan Etete' according to the EFCC interim investigation report...
Anti-corruption campaigners are calling on the government to react to the admission in the US courts on 11 February by Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root that it paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to three former Nigerian heads of state several senior officials and former Oil Minister Dan Etete who is wanted in France for fraud...
Stanley said three Nigerian heads of state were bribed plus several senior officials including former Oil Minister Dan Etete wanted in France for money laundering...
The French authorities have also questioned Aondoakaa's blocking of the extradition of former Oil Minister Dan Etete to face charges of fraud and money laundering in Paris...
Aondoakaa has also yet to accede to a French judge's request for the extradition of former Oil Minister Dan Etete to face charges of fraud and corruption in France; the case concerns money misappropriated from Nigeria's oil revenues...
Although Aondoakaa is criticised by European police (he has blocked the extradition of former Oil Minister Dan Etete to France) outsiders are keeping an open mind about Waziri...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
A Paris court's 7 November guilty verdict on charges of money laundering against former military-era Oil Minister Dan Etete will also have implications for political-business disputes in Abuja...
Among those awards of blocks to relatives of the late head of state General Sani Abacha his Oil Minister Dan Etete and others were cancelled...