Nigeria says ex-president and his oil minister took bribes: court filing

ABUJA - The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country’s laws to broker a $1.3 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.

In papers advancing a London commercial court suit against Shell and Eni, lawyers for the Nigerian government said Jonathan and former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke conspired to “receive bribes and make a secret profit”, keeping the government from getting what it was owed from the deal. An Eni spokesman said the Italian firm was assessing whether UK courts had jurisdiction on a case of “such duplication” to the Milan proceedings and repeated its view on “the correctness and compliance of every aspect of the transaction.”The London lawsuit relates to payments that Shell and Eni made to acquire the license.

In the London court filing, the Nigerian government said it only received a $209 million signature bonus in relation to the deal, and that it estimates the value of the oilfield to have been “at least $3.5 billion”. It said it would seek to calculate damages on that basis.

Yet he allowed the man in power now to take power from him, when he had the means not to allow it? Many contradictions in that nation

So if Nigeria Officials rescind the rights to the block, what now happens to $208b Shell and Eni gave Nigeria?

Tell something new, nothing moves there without bribes🇳🇱

Confiscate the money.

Jail him then

Point of correction apc says not Nigeria Reuters

And this is news?👀

Their behaviour suits their rotten corrupt ugly behaviour. Where are the decent leaders in Nigeria .Where are they ?

BS

They were already bathing in corruption

And you believe?

so that email from him was real? damn...

Nah, really 🤣😂

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