"If anyone steals any dollar anywhere America will know, they will tell you where it is; it is their money.”Goodluck Jonathan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xv9olIjI4


Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

[b]Tinubu gave differing accounts for his wealth to Moss. In one phone call from Nigeria, shortly after the U.S. Treasury seized his money, he admitted to wiring $100,000 to Akande’s Houston bank account and to receiving the $80,000 from Akande into his First Heritage account. Tinubu also said that apart from one other account in Fairfax, Virginia, he had no other money stashed in U.S. banks.

Except that there were other accounts. Citibank has a worldwide banking division known as Citibank International where Tinubu stashed an additional $550,000. He also controlled an entity called Compass Finance and Investments Company Ltd., of which Akande and Agbele were directors. Still another nexus of money transfers was uncovered by federal investigators, with cash moving from First Heritage to Citibank to Citibank International, where it wound up in Tinubu’s personal accounts and in those belonging to Compass Finance and Investments. In a follow-up exchange with law enforcement officers, Tinubu changed his story. Just days after conceding that he’d sent and received money to and from Akande, he insisted that he had no financial or business dealings with Akande or Agbele.[/b]

There’s no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime. He eventually settled with the district court, turning over $460,000 of the seized $1.4 million, with the remainder released back to him. The Beast tried repeatedly to contact Marsha McClellan, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, but was unsuccessful.

“I’m not surprised at all,” said Virginia Comolli, a specialist on Nigeria and author of Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. “There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash. Even ones who seem fairly clean turn out to have some dark histories.” The perfect case in point is Tinubu’s political project and new president-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammed Buhari, who in 1983 helped overthrow a democratically elected government in a military coup d’etat on the grounds that the government was undisciplined and corrupt. “He resorted to brutal methods, beating up people for not queuing properly and imposing limitations on the media,” Comolli said. “I think a lot of the votes Buhari got were anti-Jonathan rather than pro-Buhari.”

But no doubt, many also came from a savvy fusion of political factions. In February 2013, Tinubu successfully merged his own influential Action Congress party with Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, resulting in the All Progressives Congress. The marriage united Nigeria’s most populous northwest and southwest regions and the ensuing campaign was billed by Tinubu as a “commonsense revolution” against a corrupt and venal incumbency which, in its five years in power, had seen the terrorist group and newly-minted ISIS affiliate Boko Haram thrive. Buhari swept the election with 2.7 million more votes than Jonathan.

Even before that trouncing, however, Tinubu had a relatively positive reputation in Nigeria, according to former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell. “He is widely regarded as having been a highly successful governor of Lagos state,” he said. “Together with Tinubu’s handpicked successor, Babatunde Fashola, Lagos has seen dramatic improvements in everything from practical stuff like garbage collection to the collection of taxes and the provision of public services,” Campbell told The Beast. Though even here, the ex-diplomat admits, Tinubu’s good governance has been clouded by controversy. “He established a company to do the tax collecting in return for a cut and, at one point, Tinubu and Fashola appeared to be splitting over the percentage of Tinubu’s cut.”

Drug charges do indeed appear to be the sine qua non for Nigerian high office. The year 1993, when Tinubu’s assets were seized, was a turbulent period for Nigeria following the cancellation of a national election and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Moshood Abiola, the rightful winner of that election, was accused of narcotics trafficking according to Campbell. So too is “Prince” Buruji Kashamu from the People’s Democratic Party, who has faced extradition back to the United States since 1998. Kashamu was indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for being the elusive “Alaji,” a globetrotting drug kingpin who smuggled heroin into O’Hare International Airport from Europe and Asia. Piper Kerman, the memoirist who inspired the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, famously worked for Alaji. Kashamu denies the charges and insists that he was purportedly a counterterrorism informant to the U.S. government before and after 9/11, and that the real trafficker was his now-deceased brother.

Despite his party’s general loss to the All Progressives Congress, Kashumu was elected in March as senator of the southwest Ogun state. In what appeared to be a magnanimous gesture to the winner, he took out an advertisement praising Tinubu as a role model. The Jagaban was distinctly unimpressed. He trashed the comparison in a statement signed by his media adviser, claiming that for Kashamu “to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain.” Tinubu instructed the “false praise singer” to go face the music in the Windy City before deigning to talk to him.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html

This writeup is about akande and agbele

Says Tinubu was never indicted

HtwoOw:
This writeup is about akande and agbele

Says Tinubu was never indicted

Did we read the same article?

Too long a post but this caught my atttention *Relatively positive reputation*

In this wack country your source of wealth is unquestionable so far you can bribe the authorities and also bribe your way to the top and become a Godfather

Imagine with all these evidences so no one was indicted? We still have a long way to go

subtlemee:
Too long a post but this caught my atttention *Relatively positive reputation*

In this wack country your source of wealth is unquestionable so far you can bribe the authorities and also bribe your way to the top and become a Godfather

Imagine with all these evidences so no one was indicted? We still have a long way to go

It is a long article,that is why I highlighted the most important parts.

AYO 2019 LOADING ....

aishatu19:
AYO 2019 LOADING ....

Ayo Fayose immunity is expiring later this year or early 2018,EFCC will prosecute hum for diverting funds to buy N1.35 billion naira houses in Lekki for himself and his sister. His front Agbele,the man he used to purchase the properties is currently being prosecuted by EFCC.
Unfortunately because of his immunity,nothing can be done to him until he leave office.

Op, you better not give yourself heartattack over Tinubu matter. The same Tinubu who hosted the U.S Consular general in Nigeria at his residence a few days ago? Yinmu. Tinubu's past is an open book by now mr. Worse has been said about him, especially leading up to the 2015 elections so quit giving yourself unnecessary headache.

https://www.nairaland.com/3596625/tinubu-visited-john-bray-us

ODVanguard:
Op, you better not give yourself heartattack over Tinubu matter. The same Tinubu who hosted the U.S Consular general in Nigeria at his residence a few days ago? Yinmu. Tinubu's past is an open book by now mr. Worse has been said about him, especially leading up to the 2015 elections so quit giving yourself unnecessary headache.

https://www.nairaland.com/3596625/tinubu-visited-john-bray-us

Does that change the fact he forfeited $500K in his acounts for drug trafficking in the 90's?Daily Beast is a respected and well known American news media organization,look them up.

kaydutchboy:

Does that change the fact he forfeited $500K in his acounts for drug trafficking in the 90's?Daily Beast is a respected and well known American news media organization,look them up.

I don't know what your real motive is but this same report has been overflogged on this forum wella. I am sure you deliberstely glossed over where the report clearly stated:

There’s no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime.

Why you are trying so hard to criminalize him when even the U.S govt failed to do so defies logic.

At worst he was laundering money for some folks that may have been involved in shaddy deals, but how you lots translates that to mean he was a drug trafficker is what remains a mystery. Even the U. S where this occurred didn't find enough evidence to indict him for any criminal act yet una no gree us hear word.

None of this is news. The U.S has since moved on, Tinubu has moved on. Nigerians have moved on and frankly don't give a fvck. You better go and find something more worthwhile to do with your time.

Pablo Escobar of Nigeria.

a new sherif in America. all files that is still pending relating to drugs in usa is been opened in America.

kashemu is another victim, next will be atiku and buhari wife. Obama is no more to save them.


do you know if they plan to arrest tinubu that why the us consular visited tinubu.

ODVanguard:


I don't know what your real motive is but this same report has been overflogged on this forum wella. I am sure you deliberstely glossed over where the report clearly stated:



Why you are trying so hard to criminalize him when even the U.S govt failed to do so defies logic.

At worst he was laundering money for some folks that may have been involved in shaddy deals, but how you lots translates that to mean he was a drug trafficker is what remains a mystery. Even the U. S where this occurred didn't find enough evidence to indict him for any criminal act yet una no gree us hear word.

None of this is news. The U.S has since moved on, Tinubu has moved on. Nigerians have moved on and frankly don't give a fvck. You better go and find something more worthwhile to do with your time.

I simply reposted what a reputed American News media organization Daily Beast put out for the world to see. The article states he forfeited $500K in his account for being an accomplice to drug traffickers.

kaydutchboy:

Does that change the fact he forfeited $500K in his acounts for drug trafficking in the 90's?Daily Beast is a respected and well known American news media organization,look them up.

He did not forfeit money for drug trafficking. In US under Drug Enforcement law if your money is confiscated you dont get any part back. Tinubus money was confiscated for tax owed. Out of 1.4million they took .46 and returned rest to him.

nothing to comment
b4 those jagaban masturbators start spewing trash

Joel3:
Pablo Escobar of Nigeria.

a new sherif in America. all files that is still pending relating to drugs in usa is been opened in America.

kashemu is another victim, next will be atiku and buhari wife. Obama is no more to save them.


do you know if they plan to arrest tinubu that why the us consular visited tinubu.

I hope these cases will all be opened,including that of Femi Gbajamilia.They committed crimes in foreign jurisdiction before coming back to Nigeria to torment the masses.James Ibori started his looting from U.K. as a cashier before he came back to Nigeria to perfect his act.

OPCNAIRALAND:


He did not forfeit money for drug trafficking. In US under Drug Enforcement law if your money is confiscated you dont get any part back. Tinubus money was confiscated for tax owed. Out of 1.4million they took .46 and returned rest to him.

This is at complete odds with what the article said. He was making $2400 a month at Mobil and got over a million dollars debited to his account,so he had to forfeit the money he got from his drug running.

No wonder they run Nigeria like cartel and cabal,

finaly01:
No wonder they run Nigeria like cartel and cabal,

Our elders warned us good name is better than riches.What you did 20 years ago might come back to haunt you.

kaydutchboy:

Did we read the same article?

Do you know what an indictment is?

OPCNAIRALAND:


He did not forfeit money for drug trafficking. In US under Drug Enforcement law if your money is confiscated you dont get any part back. Tinubus money was confiscated for tax owed. Out of 1.4million they took .46 and returned rest to him.

Confiscated, Forfeited, same thing. Tinubu was a drug dealer at worst, and a money launderer at "best". The bottom line is he's not presently wanted for any crimes anywhere in the world. I cannot say I am that much of an an admirer of his, but facts are facts. George HW Bush, JFK's father, Donald Rumsfeld, Jay Z and countless others are in the same category. This does not excuse their past actions, but again, the fact is the fact.

Buruji Kashamu, however, has a case to answer.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Do you know what an indictment is?

I do,he was'nt charged,just forefeited the money he got from his drug running with Akande and Agebele.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Confiscated, Forfeited, same thing. Tinubu was a drug dealer at worst, and a money launderer at "best". The bottom line is he's not presently wanted for any crimes anywhere in the world. I cannot say I am that much of an an admirer of his, but facts are facts. George HW Bush, JFK's father, Donald Rumsfeld, Jay Z and countless others are in the same category. This does not excuse their past actions, but again, the fact is the fact.

Buruji Kashamu, however, has a case to answer.

He is threatening fire and brimstone if the goverment tries to extradite him to USA ,said he is about to hire 40 OPC members to protect him and he will never be captured alive.He is the real Pablo Escobar.
http://punchng.com/us-judgment-well-push-kashamus-arrest-says-ndlea/

mykeljosef:
nothing to comment

b4 those jagaban masturbators start spewing trash