If you don't know who the notorious lebanese Business mongul, Gilbert Chagoury is then I suggest you do a google searc on him and see this thread as well https://www.nairaland.com/2275928/how-tinubus-loot-ends-up which details Chagoury's solid network in the white house.

Tinubu owes Chagoury a lot! It will be safe to assume that chagoury is Tinubu's godfather.

That aside, Chagoury's role in blocking US assistance in combating boko haram through lobbying and funding of the Clinton foundation which saw then State Secretary Clinton vehmently refuse to designate Boko Haram as an FTO has began to come to light.

Chagoury is the link between a Buhari win and the White House. And just like in the old Abacha days, Chagoury is set to occupy a special place in the Buhari administration.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

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APC leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, may have commenced his deft moves as he recently  brought the very notorious  Chagoury brothers to meet with the president-elect in a closed door meeting.

It was not clear what was discussed but consider the fact the Chagoury brothers, who threw in some cash for the Buhari Campaign,  are big players of sundry shades, business deals would have featured prominently.

The Lebanon brothers played a prominent role in helping the Abacha family stash billions of stolen state cash in foreign banks.

Immediately after Abacha’s death, ex EFCC czar, Nuhu Ribadu, who unsuccessfully tried to indict and arrest Chagoury in 2004,  then a young police investigator, said he began looking into the dictator’s financial affairs.

“It wasn’t uncommon for Nigerian leaders to put money elsewhere,” Ribadu says. “But the magnitude was beyond anybody’s comprehension.”

The money — estimated at more than $4 billion — was stashed in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Isle of Jersey in the names of dozens of individuals and companies. Ribadu argues that it was Chagoury who vouched for Abacha’s sons at banks where the source of their assets might otherwise have been questioned.

Indeed, Chagoury’s Swiss attorney, Luc Argand, said his client served as a reference for Abacha’s sons at Credit Suisse.

The Nigerian government eventually requested help from law enforcement around the world in tracking the stolen assets.

In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva, Switzerland, of laundering money and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the Abacha years.

Six  years after Gen. Sani Abacha’s death, Ribadu’s officers stood ready to take  Gilbert Chagoury down. Ribadu says that Chagoury made it possible for Abacha to steal billions of dollars and lined his own pockets in the process.

The prosecutor says he indicted Chagoury and ordered his arrest for relatively minor violations related to Chagoury’s businesses so that he could later bring additional charges for his activities in the Abacha era.

Private business tycoons are not left out of the visits, Forte Oil CEO, Femi Otedola, and Oando boss Adewale Tinubu also visited Buhari last week.

Both money men donated millions of dollars to the Buhari Campaign Organisation. Speculations have it that the name of the  Oando boss has been suggested to Buhari by  Asiwaju  as the next Petroleum Minister.

Although  Chagoury denies any involvement in the Halliburton bribery case, but his name surfaced in notes taken by one of the indictees, Chodan, who kept detailed records of so-called cultural meetings, where bribes were discussed.

One entry reads, “$250 … to IPCO via Chagoury.”
When I ask Chagoury about these records, he doesn’t dispute that the note refers to a sum of $250 million, but he argues that it refers to a contract, which, he says, was legitimately awarded to one of his companies, IPCO Nigeria Limited, for construction related to the liquefied natural gas plant.

Reports say  Buhari,  however refused to have audience with  the current Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde,  and NSCDC boss , Ade Abolurin, who visited his residence in Daura to “pay homage.”

Yankarireporters.com learnt that the customs boss,  immediately after informing the President-Elect of his mission was advised to go back to his duty post.

Dikko, shocked by Buhari’s response tried unsuccessfully to inform the retired General of the situation at all Nigeria’s borders, seaport and the airports, but the President-elect upbraided the 55 year-old that the ideal procedure is to wait until he has been sworn in as president, describing the visit as unhealthy, unethical and disloyalty to a government he is still serving.

The visit of the current Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Ade Abolurin, was reportedly more dramatic. He  arrived Daura with top officers of the corps, photographers and some members of

According to a member of the Buhari Campaign from Katsina, “The President-Elect was having his normal quiet time when the delegation arrived”.

The corps officers led by its commandant were left outside in the scorching sun for over an hour, before the commandant and two corps officers were allowed entry into the President-elect’s visitors room.

But shortly after an aide of Buhari, said that the retired General wants him out of his residence and will not be seeing him.

Dumbfounded the corps officers left in a haste to the surprise of other delegation members outside, who were waiting and hoping to see the president-elect and take photographs with him.

A serving minister last week also sent emissaries to the president-elect in a bid to secure a private meeting.

The  deluge of top current serving government officials and visitors reaching out to General Buhari at this material time has turned his Daura home to a new Mecca.

How can Buhari claim to honestly want to fight corruption with the assembly of crooks and thieves surronding him?

I see the events in Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi unfolding in this APC and Buhari goverment!

Sai bab one chance!

Omenka I have served another thread for you to come lament

Chagoury or shaggy whatever Una call Dem. My own now Na how I go take cook better soup dis weekend chop belleful.

The Chagoury brothers - the owners of Eko hotel, oceanic view and even total building. They own the entire landscape from total down to Eko Atlantic. They are a huge fan and supporter of the clintons.

All Progressive Chagoury

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