More prominent Nigerians and companies with hidden assets in
Panama, a tax haven were on Thursday made public.
According to a leaked internal data of the Panamanian law
firm, Mossack Fonsecca, no fewer than 110 Nigerians and companies have been
accused to have stashed fortunes in Panama in a bid to avoid taxes,.
The newspaper had listed some prominent personalities
contained in the current list to include, the owner of telecommunication giant,
Globacom, Mike Adenuga; Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sadiq Sani Bello and the
late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, Chairman of Arik Airlines, Joseph
Arumemi-Johnson and his wife, Mary, as well as two serving senators, Andy Uba
from Anambra, Ibrahim Gobir, Sokoto among others.
Since Mossack Fonsecca made the revelation of people with
fortunes in the British Virgin Island of Panama and Seychelles on April 3,
2016, names of prominent Nigerians have continued to be linked to the list.
A rundown of Nigerians so far linked to the data base
according to the newspaper include, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote;
President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki; convicted former governor of
Delta State, James Ibori; the boss of Oando, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil
firm, Wale Tinubu, and popular televangelist, Prophet T.B. Joshua who debunked
the claim.
The unprecedented year-long investigation involving 11.5
million secret documents which stretched from 1977 to December 2015 exposed the
hidden underground of the world economy, a network of banks, law firms and
other middlemen that use shell companies, sometimes to hide illegal wealth.
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