MALABU OIL DEAL: ADOKE QUIZZED ABROAD

A FORMER Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, may have been questioned in Netherlands where he is currently a student in a university.Prosecutors in that country were said to have opened a case on him following assistance sought by a third party.

 

The exact time of the questioning is not known, but it was learnt in Abuja that the Dutch authorities questioned him based on documents passed on to them by Italian investigators who are looking into the Malabu oil deal based on the involvement of an Italian oil company, ENI.


A source confided in The Guardian that the Italians have a “huge file” on the matter, and have shared information once they found out he was in Netherlands. “They told us that they have already visited him once. He was not arrested but they have had a meeting with him already.’’ It was gathered that government was also looking at all those who got monies in foreign currencies transferred to their private accounts shortly after the settlement was arrived at.

The source was clear that a particular dramatis persona involved in all the transactions was not a direct beneficiary because “nothing was found” to have been paid directly to him; but government, it is believed, is looking into some of the shell companies established within the period that “certain proceeds” were paid into.

“I must tell you that this particular person was smart. We didn’t find anything on him even though he shared what came out of it. He used fronts – shell companies – so it is taking more time to track anything to him. Those already fingered in collecting money include two former ministers and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. They were said to have got $10 million dollars each,” the source added.


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