Judge Barbara's statement explains that the former oil minister Dan Etete who claimed ownership of the OPL 245 oil block and was selling it back to the government for onward sale to Shell and ENI transferred about $520 million to Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu intended for payment to members of the government and other public officials...
' On 26 May 2014 Italian prosecutors in Milan wrote to Britain's Home Office to say they'd traced Malabu's payments of $523 million to three of the six accounts naming Abubakar Aliyu Chairman of AA Oil as the eventual recipient...
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of it was to companies and accounts linked to Abubakar Aliyu an oil man who is close to President Jonathan and his then Oil Minister...