The energy giant, according to the BBC, is paying a Romanian businessman who employed President Macky Sall’s brother to secure the exploration concession, more than $10 billion.

BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley will not answer questions from the media about his company’s dealings with Petro-Tim.

Romanian entrepreneur Frank Timis, who sold his oil concessions to BP for $250 million insists he’s done nothing wrong.

He secured the  two blocks off the Senegalese coast  by employing President Macky Sall’s brother Aliou who no experience in the petroleum industry. 

The big money he’s going to get from BP will be for royalties

Opposition political parties are in Senegal are demanding an explanation from Sall who was re-elected last February on an anti-corruption ticket.

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