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FRIDAY MAY 6, 2016 • T H I S D AY
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Adenuga, Niger Governor, Sijuwade, Andy Uba, 106 Others Named in #PanamaPapers At least 110 Nigerian individuals and companies have so far been identified in the leaked internal data of Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonsecca, as operators of offshore shell companies in tax havens. Prominent among the new names revealed yesterday, in addition to the several that were published in the past one month, are the founder of telecommunication company, Globacom, Mike
Adenuga; Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sadiq Sani Bello and the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, among others. The list according to Premium Times, also contained names of Arik Chairman, Joseph ArumemiJohnson and his wife, Mary, as well as two serving senators – Andy Uba (Anambra) and Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto). Other top business persons,
Contact/Client Name
Mike Adenuga (Chairman, Globacom) Yetunde and Oyin Adenuga
Company
World Span Consultants (WSC)
Eastcoast Investments Inc; The Volta Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) Company and Cross Group Holdings International. Stanhope Investments Limited; Julex James Ibori (former Governor, Delta Foundation; Hunglevest Corporation; State). The Hopes Trust; and Financial Advisory Group Limited Governor Abubakar Sadiq Sani Bello Devpharm Limited of Niger State Alhaji Ibrahim Damcida (late) multibillion business and northern Devpharm Limited power broker who died in 2012 Dana crash. Adeyinka Adekunle Ojora (Director, Stronghold Support Services Limited Royal Exchange) Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Africa’s Petrowest S.A. richest man) Ayokunnu Tajudeen (owner, Capital Capital Development Solutions Limited Development Solutions Limited) Betty O. Worgu (Group Executive Overseas Limited and OIS Director, Oil and Industrial Services, Kenqip International Limited. Nigeria) Babajide Balogun (Vice Chairman/ CEO, Primrose Development Company Limited British Virgin Islands Capt. Adekunle Harrison (Executive President, Hak Air Limited) Chief Alex Duduyemi (Chairman, Bolex Holdings) Chief Tunde Oshunrinde (member, PDP Board of Trustees) Senator Ibrahim Gobhir of Sokoto East Dr. Yemi Oke Edward Keniwenimo Etete (son of Dan Etete, former Minister of Petroleum). Dr. UJ Itsueli (Chairman, Dubri Oil Company) Keyinde Durosinmi-Etti (former, Managing Director, Skye Bank Plc) Emmanuel Ojei (Chairman, Nuel Ojei Limited) Evelyn Onyishi Joshua (wife of TB Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations) Funsho Moses Kupolokun (former Group Managing Director, NNPC). Joseph Ikhide Akinola ArumemiIkhide (Chairman, Arik Air)
Country
Panama Bahamas and Panama Niue and Geneva British Virgin Island British Virgin Island British Virgin Island Seychelles Samoa Bahamas
Primrose Overseas Investments Limited
Primrose Overseas Investments Limited
British Virgin Islands
Sunningdale Assets S.A.
Panama
Torham Petroleum Corporation
Bahamas
Damnaz Holdings (BVI) Limited Olaniwun Ajayi
British Virgin Islands Panama
Century Energy Portfolio International Limited
British Virgin Islands
The Dubri International Petroleum Company Limited
Panama
V and E Properties Limited
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands
Chillon Consultancy Limited
British Virgin Islands
Gold Coast Resorts International Limited
British Virgin Islands
Vornel Limited
St. Joseph Properties Limited; Ojemaie British Virgin Properties Limited; St. Gregory Holding Limited and St. Gregory Properties Limited. Islands
Kenneth Chukwuemeka (Group OIS International Limited and Kenquip Chairman, Oil and Industrial Overseas Limited. Services) Kolawole Aluko (oil magnate believe to be close to Mrs. Diezani Alison- Earnshaw Associates Limited Madueke) Kephren Business Limited and Oxenford Adetunji Adegboyega Adebayo Resources Limited. Mr. Afolabi Caxton-Martins (Managing Partner, Adepetun Adepetun Caxton-Martins Agbor and Caxton- Martins Agbor and Segun Segun (ACAS-Law), Lagos Mr. Laolu Saraki (brother of Senate Sutton Energy Limited President, Bukola) Mallam Bello Gwandu (former Managing Shannon Limited Director, Nigerian Ports Authority) Mallam Ibrahim Aliu (Chairman, Fairford Investment Group Limited and Urban Shelter Limited) Urban Shelter Limited Time Trading Limited; Urien Trading Mr. Nero N. Asibelua (founder, Nero Quick S.A.; Nascan Consultants Inc.; and Marine Asibelua) Support International Limited
Bahamas British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Panama British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Island
Obi Asika (former Senior Special British Virgin Assistant to former President Sutton Energy Limited Island Goodluck Jonathan on Social Media) Mr. Ola Rosiji (Group Managing Excalibur Holdings Services Inc. Panama Director, Lexcel Group) Shipping Inc; Sid Holdings Corp; Sayyu Dantata, founder/CEO, MRS Koggi Paseo Trading Limited; Petrowest S.A.; and Group) Arkinton International Limited. Panama and Seychelles Mr. Victor Akpenyi (CEO, Zeroids Engineering)
Zeroids Engineering Kunsult Limited
Panama
politicians, and their family members were also found in the infamous database, including those currently holding public offices. The publication detailed names of companies, their owners and the particular tax havens the offshore firms are domiciled. Some of them, who are public officer holders, held the assets in violation of Nigerian law, failing to declare them to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The investigation revealed the assets of some of Nigeria’s most Mr. Mumuni Dagazau, CEO, Triquest Energy Mrs. Mariya Dantata (mother of Aliko Dangote) Mrs. Zainab Abdurrahman (former General Manager, NNPC Retail Limited) Nimuola Folorunsho Coker (former Special Assistant to Governor Babatunde Fashola on The Centra Business Districts of Lagos) Olarenwaju Olamuyiwa (Staff, Legal and Regulatory Unit, Ecobank) Oluwatoyin Saraki (wife of Senate President, Bukola Saraki)
powerful individuals, including 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, in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama, and Seychelles. The unprecedented year-long investigation involving 11.5 million secret documents – which stretch from 1977 to December 2015 – exposed the hidden underground British Virgin Islands
Esam Fayez Samara
Ics Financial Systems Limited
Koggi Shipping Inc.
Panama
Farouk Rawas
Fenwick Overseas Holdings Limited
Flaxton International Limited
Bahamas
Folashade Adeoluwa
Dalelands Limited
Ike, Frederick
Leymond Investments Limited
M.R.S. Holdings Limited M.R.S. Investments Company Limited Maddelina Magrietha Anaderson Mary Ehiomome Arumemi-Ikhide (Wife of the Chairman of Arik Air, Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide)
Corlay Global S.A.
Satori Holdings Limited
British Virgin Islands
Ecobank Nigeria Limited
Panama
Mr Tarek Abdul – AL
Galway Capital Assets Limited
Mr. F. O. B. Agbeseyi
Lonestar International Company Lonestar International Company
Panama
Mr. Frederick Ike
Haklag Incorporated
Mr. Kiran Virat
Devpharm Limited
Mr. Mbanefo B. Mofunanya
Mofunanya, Mbanefo B.
Mr. Mohammed Awwal Abubakar
Magma Petroleum Development Inc.
British Virgin Islands
Mr. Oladele Oyekunle
Oladele Oyekunle
Panama British Virgin Islands Panama British Virgin Islands Panama
Mr. Orlando Modesti
Jardin International Ltd.
Niue
Mr. Yusuf Babazuko Idris
Fortrade International Trading Ltd.
Renocon Property Development Limited
British Virgin Islands
Mrs. Holdings Limited
Corlay Global S.A
Niue British Virgin Island Panama
Jardin International Limited
British Virgin Islands
Mrs. Aisha Dantata
Koggi Shipping Inc
Panama
Mrs. Oyebimpe Oyetunde
Anina, Blankson &Co.
Ciclones Corporation Inc. and Cosmopolitan Corporation
Panama
Mrs. Oyeyinka Taiga
Turill Limited
Multinational Tecnology Limited
Multinational Energy Services Limited
Panama British Virgin Islands Seychelles
Oladele Oyekunle
Lexys Limited
Seychelles
Oladele Toluwani
Oladele Toluwani Obatoni
Panama
Olawale Olalere
Olawale Olalere
Uchenna and Ann Ekwueme
British Virgin Islands
Pure Expression Limited
George Igboegwu (Managing Limon Interbational Inc. Director at Westron Oil and Gas Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, (former Solomon and Peters Limited Governor of Bayelsa State) Anne Kadiya (wife of former Nigerian Minister, John Kadiya, who Jardin International Limited died in1997).
Wale Tinubu (Group CEO, Oando Group)
Sandon Development Limited; Girol Properties Limited; and Renocon Property Development Sigma Technology Inc; Techventure Limited; Anglesey Management SA; Trinton Trading Limited; Caine Trading Corporation; Keigh Engineering Limited; Hud Trading Equinox Shipping Limited; Meridian Procurement International Services Limited; Lynx Shipping Limited; Everglade Oil Inc; and Framlingham Limited
HRH Okunade Adele (late Ooni of Ife) Devpharm Limited Abdallah Muhammad Usman
Amani Investments Inc.
Bello Ibrahim Gwandu
Warams Services Limited
Bello, Muftau B. Muk – B Limited Charlotte A.T. Durosinmi-Etti (Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Vornel Limited Traveltron Limited Wife of Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, former Skye Bank MD) Chief Saifudeen A. Edu
Devpharm Limited
Christopher John Lloyd
Westbury Pacific Ltd.
Colin Anderson
Colmad International Limited
Creamkas Logistics Solutions Limited Emmanuel Chukwuma Edozien (Former Economic Adviser to the President of Nigeria)
British Virgin Islands
Chaimers Shipping Inc.
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Panama Panama British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Bahamas British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Panama
British Virgin Islands
Prof. E.A. Elebute (consultant cardiothoracic surgeon; co-founder and pioneer chairman) Rashid Gbadamosi (former Minister of National Planning and exChairman of PPPRA) Senator Bukola Saraki (former Governor of Kwara State and President of Senate)
law firm that specializes in creating offshore companies, some of which have been used by con men and women to hide Ponzi schemes, predatory lending scams, and other financial frauds from their victims and from the authorities. The use of shell companies is not illegal and there are individuals and firms who incorporate them for purely legitimate purposes. Below is a comprehensive list of the other Nigerians named in the leak, although this may not be final:
Rodsun Trading Incorporated
Landfield International Developments Limited Fairshores Offshores Limited; Rhodax Rotimi O. Dosekun, (Chairman Overseas Trading and Investments Fairshores Limited) Limited; and Rockview Oil Sales and Services Limited Fairshores Offshores Limited; Rhodax Solomon Dada Thomas (business Overseas Trading and Investments partner of Rotimi Dosekun in Limited; and Rockview Oil Sales and Fairshores Limited) Services Limited Senator Andy Uba (Anambra South) Wentworth Properties Limited Hakeem Bello-Osagie (Chairman, Clerkenwell Management Limited Etisalat Nigeria) Colsan Enterprises Limited; Goldwin Senator David Mark (former Senate Transworld Limited; Medley Holdings President) Limited; Centenary Holdings Limited; and four other companies Temitope Balogun Joshua (founder and pastor, The Synagogue Church Chillon Consultancy Limited of All Nations) Timi Austen Peters (lawyer, Managing Partner, Austen Peters) Hampstead Venture Capital Limited British Virgin Islands
Babatunde Morakinyo
of the world economy, a network of banks, law firms and other middlemen that utilise shell companies, sometimes using them to hide illegal wealth. The 2.6 TB files, involving 214,488 entities, also revealed hundreds of details about how former gun-runners, contractors and other members of the spy world use offshore companies for personal and private gain. The investigation unveiled the cloak of secrecy provided by Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian
Colmad International Limited St. Joseph Properties Ltd. Ojemade Properties Limited St. Gregory Holding Ltd.
British Virgin Islands Seychelles Channels Island, Jersey British Virgin Islands
Miro Amina Usman
Solon Marketing Limited
Mr. Labaran Tanko
Mindora Corporation Firestorm Limited Sigma Es Limited
British Virgin Islands
Panama
Seychelles and British Virgin Islands
Seychelles and British Virgin Islands
Oluwaseun Adeoluwa Sani Salihu Anka Udeme Udon
British Virgin Islands Panama British Virgin Islands Bahamas
Viviao, Mrs Ojel Bestaf Trading Co. Ltd. Mr. Mallam Ibrahim Aliyu Rhodax Holdings Investments Limited
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands
Gremon Energy Inc.
Seychelles
Setana Petroleum Limited
British Virgin Islands
Taifo Intergrated Investment Limited Transcoastal Fabricators Nigeria Limited Akeem Ayinde Gbadamosi Debrah Oluremi Olowu; Michael Omotunde Olowu; Marvel Olusegun Olowu; Michael Oladtunde Olowu Merch Oludolapo Olowu; Margaret Ohusholabumi Olowu
Panama British Virgine Dalelands Limted Islands British Virgine Warams Services Limited Island Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc Panama British Virgine V and E Properties Limited Islands Gremon Enery Inc. Seychelles Urban Shelter (BVI) Ltd. (Ex:Urban Shelter British Virgin Ltd. Islands British Virgin Fairshores Offshore Islands Rhodax Overseas Trading and Investments British Virgin Limited Islands Rochview Oil Sales & Services (BVI) British Virgin Limited Islands British Virgin Damnaz Holdings (B.V.I) Limited Islands British Virgine Marine Support International Ltd. Islands British Virgin Verix Mutual Incorporated Islands Graytech Limited
British Virgin Island