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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by wadetaw202: 4:27am On Apr 19, 2016
buharisbae:
oloshi man

grandfather of kwaruption meanwhile

obj is the ancestor

It is wale tinubu they refer to and not bola tinubu.

When you comment without reading the post, thoughtlessness will be evident in your comment.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Nobody: 6:22am On Apr 19, 2016
Will they pick him to explain all these? ?

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by PassingShot(m): 7:02am On Apr 19, 2016
tigerclaws:
cc
ngeneukwenu omenka demdem passingshot midolian abduljabbar4 HungerBAD koboko69 modath Mynd44
make una show your lawd and master Tinubu don cast

Lalasticlala goodnight
Dude, what's my own with Wale Tinubu or even Bola Tinubu?

Some of you are too dull to differentiate between Jagaban and Wale Tinubu though.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Nobody: 7:08am On Apr 19, 2016
mapet:


Bros,

Unfortunately you post some inaccuracies and misrepresentation of facts. I'm sure if you can google search, you will see certified case studies that relates the story from the 90s. from the days of Ocean and Oil holdings, to international oil trade deals they made, when other were sleeping.....I reviewed the OANDO case back then in business school and your submissions are inaccurate
so can you give us this"accurate" info you speak of. The info you got from BS, while studying the OANDO case

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by austine4real(m): 7:09am On Apr 19, 2016
Awon tinubu ole.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by MabraO: 7:11am On Apr 19, 2016
tigerclaws:
You'll never see the useless SaharaReporters say this because Tinubu the bastard is involved
they are angry at saraki because he doubled crossed their useless brown teeth bastard Tinubu.
the same apc gave him ticket
the same apc supported late Audu even when he confessed openly on corruption
the same apc gave Silva ticket and supported him
the same apc supported Rochas the bastard thief
etc
now they're screaming corruption like useless people and think everyone is stupid like them
Thunder scatter any apc bastard that supported those mentioned but is against saraki
may that person die by bomb Insha'Allah amin

one day monkey (sowore) will go market i no go come back mark my words

Did u read where PT said they d only one given d go ahead to report abi investigate the happenings of OandO?

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by MENELIK1: 7:15am On Apr 19, 2016
buharisbae:
oloshi man

grandfather of kwaruption meanwhile Evidence of poor upbringing, you just want Tinubu to be dragged into anything corruption because of your hatred for him


obj is the ancestor
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Freshleavs: 7:16am On Apr 19, 2016
Endtime government

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by fairheven: 7:18am On Apr 19, 2016
was on lekki-epe road yesterday and I told a friend that Lagos is in a big conundrums of slavery.

this guys (TINUBU) and Co.used public money to build lekki-epe road,a major without a single fly-over -thereby resulting in massive traffic gridlock.

and erected toll-gate to swindle people of their money and nobody is saying anything against it

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by banio: 7:20am On Apr 19, 2016
APC leader, Bola Tinubu, brother is corrupt. Buhari will Chinese that kwaruption.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by fairheven: 7:22am On Apr 19, 2016
TheBatman:

so can you give us this"accurate" info you speak of. The info you got from BS, while studying the OANDO case

it's rather the one he read from "Nations newspapers and TV continental" own by TINUBU

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by fairheven: 7:27am On Apr 19, 2016
wadetaw202:


It is wale tinubu they refer to and not bola tinubu.

When you comment without reading the post, thoughtlessness will be evident in your comment.

what do kettle and port have in common?.. black!!!

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by 989900: 7:31am On Apr 19, 2016
It's easy: let the 'defrauded shareholders' take it up from there. The PDP can also play their hand. If tax evasion and other irregularities can be confirmed, let them line the cases up against him.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Nobody: 7:32am On Apr 19, 2016
snailspeed:
Last October, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil and gas company, Oando Plc, made history for the wrong reason when it announced a loss of N184 billion in the 2014 financial year. The loss was the biggest ever recorded by any Nigerian company.

While its shareholders bore the brunt of the bleak financial year, the company’s group chief executive, Wale Tinubu and his deputy, Omamofe Boyo, might be doing just fine as they had for years incorporated and operated a cluster of shell companies in notorious offshore jurisdictions.
Mr. Tinubu seems to be making so good a return from his shell companies that in 2008 he agreed to pay a front as much as $20,000 monthly to manage all of his offshore transactions.

Details of the offshore assets of the two top bosses at Oando Plc were among the revelations contained in the leaked massive internal data belonging to Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca.

The revelations are products of an investigation, spanning over a year by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other global news organizations across the world.

PREMIUM TIMES is the only Nigerian media organisation involved in the investigation.
Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES from the huge database linked Mr. Tinubu to at least 12 shell companies.
Mr. Tinubu, documents show, secured the services of Mossack Fonseca to help him incorporate the companies in Seychelles, one of the fastest growing offshore jurisdictions in the world and notorious tax haven, the British Virgin Islands (BVI).


The documents also reveal that Mossack Fonseca coordinated the operation through its offices in Geneva, the British Virgin Islands and Panama.
The documents show that Mr. Tinubu is director in the following companies incorporated in Seychelles and the BVI.

Sigma Technology Inc.
Techventure Inc.
Anglesey Management SA
Caine Trading Corp
Keligh Engineering Corp
Hud Trading Corps
Meridian Procurement International Services Ltd
Lynx Shipping Ltd
Equinox Shipping Ltd
Everglade Oil Inc.
Framlingham Ltd
Triton Trading Ltd

Investigation reveal that Mr. Tinubu is either sole director of most of the companies or has unlimited powers to make decisions.
For Instance, files from the data revealed that on November 26, 2009, after a meeting of the “board of directors” of one of his shell companies, Keligh Engineering Corp, Mr. Tinubu was granted a general power of attorney as the sole signatory of the company.

The “board meeting” where this decision was made was attended by three nominee directors, – Yvette Rogers (Chairman), Jaqueline Alexander(secretary), Verna de Nelson, who are actually employees of Mossack Fonseca.

Nominee directors are appointees used in offshore tax havens to hide true owners of shell companies.
Mrs. Rogers had also served as nominee director in Stanhope Investment Ltd, Seychelles, one of the shell companies used by the imprisoned former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, to steal the resources of his oil-rich state.

As part of its #PanamaPapers series, PREMIUM TIMES had revealed how Mossack Fonseca helped Mr Ibori, who is serving a 13-year jail term in the United Kingdom for money laundering, hide funds stolen from Delta State treasury through a web of offshore companies.
In May 2007, Just like Mr. Ibori, the Oando boss also secured the services of Swiss asset management firm, Clamorgan SA, to help him incorporate Techventure Inc., Anglesey Management SA, Caine Trading Corp and Keligh Engineering in Seychelles while appointing Mossack Fonseca Geneva as registered agent and administrator for the shell companies.

On May 2, 2007, Sebastien Thierry of Clamorgan S.A, who had acted as signatory for one of Mr. Ibori’s shell companies, wrote a letter to Sonia Scampa of Mossack Fonseca, thanking her for verifying and assisting in registering the companies, as well as granting Mr. Tinubu the power of attorney.

“Following my mail yesterday and our conversation today, I reiterated the confirmation sent yesterday morning taken the following companies – Anglesey Management SA, Caine Trading Corp., KLeigh Engineering Corp. Thank you for making a power of attorney for Mr. Wale Tinubu for three companies,” he wrote in French.

It remains unclear why Mr. Tinubu hired the same offshore consultants used by Mr. Ibori to run his offshore companies. But in September 2013, British prosecutors told a court that Mr. Ibori confessed to owning “significant” shares in Oando Plc.

According to crown prosecutor, Sasha Wass, a Queen’s Counsel, while opening an account at Swiss bank, PKB, through a shell company called Stanhope Investment, Mr. Ibori told the bank he owned 30 per cent of Oando.

Oando had denied that Mr. Ibori’s wealth was hidden in the company. The company at the time circulated a statement claiming that Mr. Ibori only had 443 shares of the company’s 6.8 billion ordinary shares.

The documents also revealed that apart from relying on nominee directors appointed by Mossack Fonseca to hide his ownership of shell companies in tax havens, Mr. Tinubu also hired a paid front who acted on his behalf in some of the offshore companies.

In a December 10, 2008 email to Marie-Ange (an employee of Mossack Fonseca in Geneva) Sebastien Clamorgan of Clamorgan SA revealed that Mr. Tinubu hired a front, Patrick Bastin, to act on his behalf in his offshore companies.
According to the email, Mr. Bastin was handsomely rewarded for this role. He was paid a salary of $10,000 monthly and given a corporate visa card which allowed him to spend up to $10,000 monthly.
Mr. Bastin was paid from Everglade Oil Inc’s account with a private bank in Beirut, Lebanon.

“It is agreed that M. Patrick Bastin will be acting as director for certain of Mr J.A. Tinubu companies and in this capacity will be managing all upcoming administrative commercial and financial tasks, inclusive the relationship with the several banks the companies may have bank accounts with,” the email reads.

“For this task M. Patrick Bastin will be compensated by a monthly payment of US $10 000,00 (ten thousand US $) to be paid to the bank account he will indicate.
“The account of EVERGLADE OIL INC No 239783 with Audi Saradar Private Bank seal in Beirut Lebanon will be responsible to set up a standing instruction for those payments to start on November 1 -2008.
“In addition, M. Patrick Bastin will be entitled to a Corporate Visa card from EVERGLADE OIL INC for expenses up to SS 10,000 per month to be justified after to M. J A Tinubu.

“This agreement can be terminated at any moment by M. JA. Tinubu with one month notice.”


The documents also showed that some staffers of Oando Plc were in on some of Mr. Tinubu’s incorporation of shell companies.
After the resignation of one Kirk Thompson, who is believed to be the original nominee director for Mr. Tinubu in Everglade Oil Inc., on December 14, 2007, Daniel Boyo (it is not clear whether he is a relative of Omamofe Boyo), a London-based business development consultant with Oando Trading Limited, a subsidiary of Oando Plc, sent an email on January 11, 2008 to Mr Thierry instructing him to contact Everglade Oil agents in Seychelles to draft a new certificate of incumbency for the company, mentioning Terry Cunningham as its new single director.

Documents show that Seychelles is particularly an attractive offshore destination for several top Nigerian businessmen.
Several shell companies owned by Nigerians in tax havens were incorporated in the small Indian Ocean country, with a population of just under 90,000 people. They were registered as International Business Companies (IBC).
Seychelles IBCs are among the most popular IBCs in the secretive world of offshore jurisdictions. IBCs incorporated in the Seychelles are prohibited from doing businesses within the country or owning real estate. They are not required to pay taxes, submit financial details or carry out audits on their finances.

An email sent from Mossack Fonseca’s office in Seychelles to Saria Rahme Kali of Afrex and Mr Clamorgan requesting details of the bearers of the shares of a cluster of IBCs domiciled in Seychelles revealed the extensive involvement of Nigerians in offshore tax havens.
The document revealed that Sayyu Dantata, the half-brother of Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, is linked to seven IBC – Appelby Holding Ltd, Juno Equities Incorporated, MRS Holding Ltd, MRS Oil and Gas, Nisco Holding Ltd (60 per cent), and Oval Refining S.A, Ovlas S.A (50 per cent).

Similarly, Adetokunbo Sijuwade, the son of the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, is the director of Mandhari Water Investment Inc. and Izwelethu Aluminium and Steel Inc.

Mr Tinubu’s deputy, Boyo, was listed as director in three IBCs- Everglade Oil Inc, Meridian Procurement International Services, and QVS Ltd.
Nigerians Abiose Eldred Ogan-Cole and Mojisole Adeniran both own 50 per cent share each in Qaisar.
Messrs. Wale and Boyo are yet to respond to an email sent by PREMIUM TIMES through the corporate communication manager of Oando, Alero

Ms. Balogun and the company’s head of corporate communications, Ainojie Irune, had promised that responses would be provided to our questions. But several days later, no response has come from the officials.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/202000-panamapapers-tinubu-operated-12-shell-companies-tax-havens.html
this is no news.we know tinubis are corrupt. am waiting for obj

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by apolonius(m): 7:34am On Apr 19, 2016
It is always troubling that our intellectually lazy youths get carried away by sensational headlines without probing for facts.

Is Wale Tinubu of Oando the same person as Asiwaju Tinubu?

Is the oilman the same person as the politician?

Beyond the tax avoidance fervour of Panama papers,business men have every right to design schemes for their international financial transactions.

Of course,public and civil servants implicated in the P-Papers may have committed crimes, prima facie.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by YelloweWest: 7:35am On Apr 19, 2016
raumdeuter:
Illiterate fools see Wale TInubu don dey shout Bola Tinubu

Maye they need to start educating wailers en masse that Salisu Buhari isnt the same with Mohammadu Buhari
Bola and wale are related.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by ndcide(m): 7:38am On Apr 19, 2016
We know Wale is a proxy of Uncle Bola.
Let nobody try to bullshit us for nothing.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by amtaken(f): 7:39am On Apr 19, 2016
Aishaa Buhari won't like this exposure of her cup cake.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Olukologia(m): 7:41am On Apr 19, 2016
White007:
I was ready to bet my balls that if the Tinubu's wasn't on the panamaPapers list, let the Gods shrink both of my balls. Alas, i was damn right on the money. He is even fronting for Ibori, wonders shall never end. We have not heard the last of these looters, expect more revelation in the coming days/months.
guy no be Bola o, na Wale. Phone your brain before de gods shrink your balls.
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by dancewith: 7:44am On Apr 19, 2016
Isn't it sigma technology the company that collects all Lagos state taxes and revenue? The one appointed by Bola Tinubu and still raking in 10% of all revenue collected by Lagos state till date??

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Olukologia(m): 7:44am On Apr 19, 2016
I bet U, Nothin would be done to that. Because his brother spent de money that brought PMB in. So dont be carried away wit this. He'll only ask PMB to order his men to stop because I got de money from there.

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by anonimi: 7:45am On Apr 19, 2016
fairheven:
was on lekki-epe road yesterday and I told a friend that Lagos is in a big conundrums of slavery.

this guys (TINUBU) and Co.used public money to build lekki-epe road,a major without a single fly-over -thereby resulting in massive traffic gridlock.

and erected toll-gate to swindle people of their money and nobody is saying anything against it

Only for Barawo Rogue Fashole, BRF to steal our money and give him as buy back. shocked


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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by abtechy: 7:47am On Apr 19, 2016
More business and tech news on http://jollyboss.com
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by princeattah1: 7:49am On Apr 19, 2016
Princewill1:
Everyone know that the notorious thief-nubu is a criminal,a drug baron and an overnight biggest landlord in Africa.

I'm sure you didn't read at all . You just saw Tinubu and concluded . Always read for comprehension to save you some embarrassment . Now go back and read again . Thank you
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by tinsel: 7:52am On Apr 19, 2016
But I don't understand the noise here. First Wale Tinubu is not same as Bola Tinubu.
Second Wale is a business man and not a politician or civil servant. So he is entitled to do with his money with whatever he wants. If there is a tax evasion here then he will be made to face the music.
Otherwise I see no crime he commited.
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by ajepako(f): 7:52am On Apr 19, 2016
Why am l not suprised?

l have always known that ' kwarrufion fights' of our 'saintly one' is only one sided because all his political cronies and benefactors are the true faces and definitions of corruption and thievery..

Lets see how this unfolds but l have a hunch it would go unnoticed by EFCC and ICPC

By their standard definition , corruption means opposition...

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by dukie25: 7:53am On Apr 19, 2016
White007:


Forget story, Bola and Wale are the same. Didn't Wale front for Bola?. Before Bola who was Wale?. Isn't Wale the junior sibling of Bola?

Well for ur information wale Tinubu a younger brother to Bola tinubu got his first hit in 2001 when he bought Agip petroleum, when Tinubu was a lagos state governor...if I may ask where did a lawyer that runs a family law firm get $67 million to buy Agip? Definately if u want to get Bola Tinubu trace wale Tinubu's sudden wealth then u'd ave ur answer. Its as simple as that...Bola Tinubu is not so smart after all....

Gbam

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Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by Rekeb: 7:58am On Apr 19, 2016
I'm yet to see any big deal with this. People should understand that having an offshore account or being in the Panama Papers is not a crime. It is only a problem if you are a politician using the account to hide assets. The last I know, Wale Tinubu is a businessman. I really don't see any smoking gun here.
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by dukie25: 8:00am On Apr 19, 2016
[s]
apolonius:
It is always troubling that our intellectually lazy youths get carried away by sensational headlines without probing for facts.

Is Wale Tinubu of Oando the same person as Asiwaju Tinubu?

Is the oilman the same person as the politician?

Beyond the tax avoidance fervour of Panama papers,business men have every right to design schemes for their international financial transactions.

Of course,public and civil servants implicated in the P-Papers have committed crimes prima facie.
[/s]

What's this one saying?
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by northvietnam(m): 8:03am On Apr 19, 2016
I know SR wont be involved in this kind job.

The only thing they know how to do is Amibooo Journalism and being used as a political tool.

Those SR guys are Disgrace to Journalism
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by apolonius(m): 8:06am On Apr 19, 2016
dukie25:
[s][/s]

What's this one saying?

Nothing attractive to the rationality blind!
Re: Panama Papers: Wale Tinubu Operated 12 Shell Companies In Tax Havens by mapet: 8:07am On Apr 19, 2016
TheBatman:

so can you give us this"accurate" info you speak of. The info you got from BS, while studying the OANDO case

Absolutely yes, and that is even what is already in the public space

1. The three guys that started OANDO are Wale Tinubu, Emamofe Boyo and Onajite Okolo
2. Wale Tinubu and Boyo were lawyers in a law firm that offers legal services to firms doing international oil trade business
3. They had formed their companies in the 90s and had made money from successful international oil trade way before 2001 when the came to buy Agip and Unipetrol. Their first successful vessel trade was around 1996 or there about.
4. Bola Tinubu has absolutely nothing to do with OANDO. It is a Wale and friends thing.
5. If you look at the strategies, profiles and structure of Ocean and Oil holdings, you will get a clear picture

I think linking Bola Tinubu to OANDO is pretty cheap. These guys did not arrive overnight when Tinubu was governor. They had been in business half a decade before Tinubu became governor then and records/facts in the public domain proves that

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