NIGERIA | ITALY: Follow the money A leak from Italian prosecutors reveals more details about the recipients of the US$800 million from the OPL 245 licence sale Telephone taps of Italian middlemen in the deal over Oil Prospecting Licence 245 reveal extraordinary detail about the manoeuvring that led to the agreement between the Nigerian government, and ENI SpA and Shell, in April 2011 (AC Vol 55 No 20, ENI in the cross-hairs, & No 7, There will be blood...and oil). The leak from an Italian government investigation of ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi) reveals that ENI officials made direct contact with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his then Oil and Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to break the logjam over the contentious OPL 245. africa-confidential/article/id/5820/Follow_the_money
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:55:24 +0000
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