Dan Etete Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dan-etete/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Dan Etete Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dan-etete/ 32 32 Anti corruption watchdogs uncover “worst scandal in history of oil industry” https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/anti-corruption-watchdogs-uncover-worst-scandal-history-oil-industry/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/anti-corruption-watchdogs-uncover-worst-scandal-history-oil-industry/ Anti-corruption watchdogs have produced leaked e-Mails showing Shell knowingly bribed ministers in the Nigerian government to get access to a massive oil field. They’re calling this one of the worst corruption scandals in the history of the oil industry The evidence from anti corruption charities Global Witness and Finance Uncovered is being examined by prosecutors in […]

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]]> Anti-corruption watchdogs have produced leaked e-Mails showing Shell knowingly bribed ministers in the Nigerian government to get access to a massive oil field.

They’re calling this one of the worst corruption scandals in the history of the oil industry

The evidence from anti corruption charities Global Witness and Finance Uncovered is being examined by prosecutors in Holland and Italy.

They’re looking at how Royal Dutch Shell and the Italian oil company ENI bought a Nigerian oil field in 2011.

The field holds nine billion barrels of oil worth half a trillion dollars.

The companies paid $1,3 billion for it They dealt with former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete.

The watchdogs say more than $400 million of this went to then Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and members of his government.

Jonathan’s denied this.

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