Unic Press UK: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), a major financial crime watchdog in Nigeria arraigned a former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, who it accuses of receiving bribes to facilitate a $1.3 billion oil deal involving the sale of OPL 245 oilfield.
This bribery, corruption case centres around a sale/purchase deal in 2011, in which, Nigeria’s OPL 245 offshore oilfield is alleged to have been fraudulently purchased for circa $1.3 billion by two oil leviathans Eni and Anglo-Dutch peer Royal Dutch Shell.
In a related case, on September 2018, an Italian judge sentenced to jail two men to jail over this OPL 245 offshore oilfield deal. Emeka Obi, a Nigerian and an Italian, Gianluca Di Nardo were found guilty of corruption and each given four-year jail sentences. The Milan prosecutors allege that bribes totaling approximately $1 billion were paid to win a licence to explore this lucrative oilfield, OPL 245.
EFCC Arraigns Adoke Over Malabu Oil Scam
The EFCC on January 23, 2020 arraigned Muhammed Bello Adoke, before Justice A.I. Kutigi of Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja.#SayNoToCorruption #EFCCFightsForYou pic.twitter.com/HPkSfinFRP
— EFCC Nigeria (@officialEFCC) January 23, 2020
