N23bn Diezani Bribe: EFCC Declares Billionaire Businessman Benedict Peters Wanted
The economic and Financial Crimes Commission has announced very rich person businessperson and Managing Director of Aiteo Group, Mr. Benedict Peters, needed for his charged part in the $115m (N23bn) pay off given to authorities of the Independent National Electoral Commission by a previous Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, amid the development to the 2015 race.The EFCC said in an official periodical marked by its representative, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that Peters was needed for criminal scheme, redirection of assets and government evasion.
The notification read to a limited extent, "Dim complexioned Peters is needed regarding an instance of criminal connivance , redirection of assets and government evasion. He hails from Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. His last known location is 8B Agodogba Avenue, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos."
Subsides is affirmed to have given Diezani about $60m amid the development to the 2015 presidential decision.
The EFCC had charged that the MD of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, helped Diezani change over $115m to N23bn after which it was dispensed to INEC authorities.
A portion of the cash was said to have radiated from some oil organizations including Northern Belt Gas Company Limited which supposedly offered $60m to Fidelity Bank in the interest of Diezani.
An EFCC source told our reporter that Peters was the individual behind Northern Belt Gas Company Limited.
The source said, "We have dispatched examinations concerning the organizations that gave Diezani cash as kickbacks. About $60m originated from Northern Belt Gas Company Limited. We have not possessed the capacity to find out the executives of the organization. In any case, we discovered that Mr. Benedict Peters is the sole signatory to the record at Fidelity Bank.
"All endeavors to get him have demonstrated fruitless. We presently don't know where he is and he is barely ever in one spot since he has a private plane."
The oil head honcho, who claims oil offices in a few nations, is said to possess tank ranches in Lagos and Port Harcourt. Under previous President Goodluck Jonathan, Peters gained a 85-per penny stake in piece OML 29 from Shell Gas Company for $2.56bn. OML 29 conceivably holds up to 2.2 billion barrels of oil and around 300 million standard cubic feet of gas.
He was likewise asserted to have partaken in the dubious raw petroleum swap bargain including the trading of raw petroleum for refined petroleum items in which the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation gave out 445,000 barrels of unrefined every day to nine organizations through the Pipelines Product Marketing Company, an auxiliary of the NNPC.
Nonetheless, Peters had in an advertorial in Sunday PUNCH of May 8, 2016, denied the assertions leveled against him.
The announcement read to some extent, "keeping in mind the end goal to put the certainties unmistakably and accurately in general society space, both AIETO Group and Mr. Dwindle might want to state completely that Mr. Subsides has not been authoritatively welcomed by the EFCC on this matter.
"As a decent resident and a critical member in Nigeria's key oil and gas area and a fulfilled worldwide businessperson with noteworthy interests in various parts of the world, Mr. Benedict Peters endless supply of an official welcome from the EFCC, participate with such important powers.
"Mr. Subsides who is at present out of the nation will unquestionably take care of a welcome from the EFCC upon come back to Nigeria."
In the mean time, the counter join office has likewise announced one Mr. Johnson Salako needed for professedly swindling the Bank of Industry of N1.424bn.
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