company:malabu oil and gas

Shell soupçonné de corruption au Nigéria
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2016/03/30/97002-20160330FILWWW00193-shell-soupconne-de-corruption-au-nigeria.php

Cette affaire est la suite d’une enquête lancée en 2014 par le parquet milanais contre plusieurs hauts dirigeants d’#ENI dans l’acquisition, par le pétrolier italien associé à #Shell, des droits d’exploitation d’un champ pétrolier au #Nigeria, appelé Opl-245, au prix de 1,29 milliard de dollars, dont 200 millions payés par Shell.

En vertu de l’accord, ENI avait payé cette somme au gouvernement nigérian qui en avait transféré la majeure partie à la société Malabu Oil and Gas, première détentrice des droits d’exploitation sur le champs Opl-245. Or, cette société est soupçonnée de servir de prête-nom à l’ancien ministre nigérian du #Pétrole, Dan Etete.

▻https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/leaked-emails-show-how-shell-and-eni-conspired-hide-payment-former-oi

“We now know beyond all possible doubt or denial that Shell and Eni knew exactly where their payment was going. It’s high time they stopped trying to mislead the public and investors about their role in this dirty deal, which deprived Nigeria’s citizens of over $1.1bn. To put that into context, $1.1 billion is equivalent to 80% of Nigeria’s health care budget for 2015,” said Simon Taylor, a Director of Global Witness

The Scandal of Nigerian Oil Block OPL 245 | Global Witness

▻http://www.globalwitness.org/library/scandal-nigerian-oil-block-opl-245

Via J.-C. Servant

How secrecy in the oil & gas sector and the use of anonymous shell companies led to hundreds of millions of dollars being diverted away from Nigeria’s citizens and into the hands of a convicted money-launderer.

The Story

In May 2012, Global Witness pieced together detailed court documents and other evidence that exposed how Nigerian subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell and Italian oil giant Eni agreed to pay US$1.092 billion for one of Nigeria’s most lucrative oil blocks, OPL245.

The payment was made by Shell and Eni to the Nigerian government who had a separate agreement to pay the same amount to Malabu Oil and Gas, a company widely believed at the time of the payments to be controlled by convicted money-launderer[i] and former oil minister Chief Dan Etete. In July 2013, a British High Court ruled[ii] that Etete was indeed the owner of Malabu Oil & Gas. As Etete had awarded the oil block to Malabu Oil and Gas whilst oil minister during the regime of the corrupt dictator General Abacha, he had effectively given himself one of the most lucrative oil blocks in Nigeria[iii].

#nigeria #pétrole #énergie #corruption #spéculation