The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has suggested that Diezani Alison-Madueke collected $300,000 per oil contract to fund former President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential campaign.
Peoples Gazette reports that the FBI disclosed the charges were part of the court affidavits filed in the prosecution of the British national and former West African executive at Glencore, Anthony Stimier.
The former Minister of Petroleum is suspected to have enacted a project which involved contractors paying $300,000 per month to secure oil contracts.
The bribe payments were alleged to alleged to have been used to fund former president Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid in 2015.
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The payments are said to have began in 2014 and lasted till the onset 2015 election.
Specific names were not released in the FBI documents, but Madueke has been identified by various sources including Bloomberg as the Foreign Official 1 referred to in the report.
The FBI investigations also alleges that Stimler and other local and international contractors were part of the people that paid Madueke for the oil contracts.
An excerpt of the document reads: “On or about September 205, 2014, co-conspirator 6 sent an email to STIMLER advising that Foreign Official 1 had stated that ‘all the customers of NNPC are giving in advance $300,000 each monthly/cargo plus a certain amount which varies at the moment’ in connection with a then upcoming political election.
Under the leadership of Diezani Allison-Madueke, NNPC received the sum of $200,000 on all cargos. Stimler was working for Swiss based Glencore as at that time and helped in the financial transfers from Switzerland to NNPC.
Jonathan and Madueke have been accused of stealing $32 billion during his administration.
Bloomberg also reports that $900,000 bribes from oil deals went into Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign.
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