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US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Johndot: 8:52am On Jun 24, 2020
Authorities in the United States U.S may have commenced large scale investigations into the massive looting of Nigeria’s treasury by members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabal.

Popintblanknews.com sources at the U.S State Department and the Department of Justice, DOJ, are said to have tracked money laundering activities of Buhari’s Personal Assistant and Private Secretary, Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, Senior Special Assistant, Domestic, Sarki Abba, Mamman Daura, and Ismaila Isa and Abubakar Isa Funtua from 2016 to 2019 in the United Arab Emirate and the United Kingdom.

While the U.S is relying on her Mutual Legal Assistant Treaty, MLAT, with the UK, to compile the money laundering activities of the interested persons, they are also said to have invoked the Foreign Account Tax Compliance, FATCA, Act, an agreement entered with the United Arab Emirate, UAE, to commence the investigations.

Members of the cabal are Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura; Isa Funtua; President Buhari’s Personal Assistant and Private Secretary, Sabiu Yusuf; and the president’s former chief of staff, Abba Kyari who died some months ago.

The investigation of Buhari’s cabal is part of investigations being conducted by the US government over the massive looting and money laundering going on the administration.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Sabiu Yusuf ‘Tunde’ have been moving millions to London and Dubai where he is alleged to have acquired choice properties.

However, State Department sources who do not want to be named said that activities of Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, Mamman Daura, Mohammed Mamman Daura, and the Funtuas, have caught the attention of the U.S investigators.

According to sources, financial transactions done by the members of the cabal between 2016 and 2019 using banks in Nigeria, London and Dubai have been flagged.

“Properties purchased from funds suspected to have been laundered by the mentioned have been traced in Dubai and London,” a source familiar with the investigation hinted.

Authorities said the most troubling is cash movements linked to Sabiu Yusuf through some proxies to Dubai and London using some first-generation banks in Nigeria.

According to the source, top officials of the new generation banks have helped Sabiu ‘Tunde” and others named in laundering over $800million by disguising its sources in the last five years.

The source said “over N800million has been laundered between 2016-2019 by officials in Buhari’s Govt. Most have been used to purchase choice properties in Dubai and London.”

Recall that Nigeria’s Attorney General of Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami and Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, have been under the radar of the United States government over acts of corruption and rights abuses in relation to the management of the Abacha loot.

Malami, Magu, and other members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet are being processed for sanctions by the United States.

While it was gathered that Malami pocketed over $250million from the Abacha loots, Pointblanknews learned that the attorney general and Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, shared some of part of the recovered loot, claiming that it was commission paid to negotiators.

A case has also been filed in New Jersey, challenging Malami’s huge amount he demanded for a commission from the Abacha repatriated loots.

Pointblanknews can report that the US has invoked the Magnistsky Act on the two government officials and several other members of Buhari’s government.

In 2016, Congress enacted the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which allows the US government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in human rights abuses anywhere in the world.

A US Senator Charles Grassley recently asked the US government to withhold the repatriation of $320 million Abacha loot to Nigeria citing President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to corporate with the US Department of Justice to finalize a second forfeiture action against a separate $100m loot as well as intending to return the money to an official who was involved in corruption with Abacha.

He insisted that it was critical for Congress to understand what steps the US government was taking before it helps to transfer “millions of dollars to Nigeria to ensure that the money is not fueling more corruption and government abuses”.

Grassley who also decried the lack of safeguards the money will be used for what has been agreed upon, also tackled the Attorney-General Abubakar Malami and EFCC acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu, saying under their guidance the Buhari administration has clamped down on anyone voicing opposition to the government.

The lawmaker who chairs Senate Committee on Finance stated this in a letter he wrote to Deborah Connor, who is Chief Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the US on April 1, 2020.

The senator’s action was in light of a report by Bloomberg on the U.S. government’s resistance to a plan by the Nigerian government to transfer over $110 million to Mr. Bagudu from money stolen from Nigerian treasury by the late dictator.

Sources at the U.S Congress disclosed that a bipartisan committee is under serious considerations to consider reports of “fraud and gross abuse of power and human rights brought against top members of the Buhari’s Government.”
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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by udoakwa(m): 8:56am On Jun 24, 2020
This better be true, i pray all of be tried and jail including buha

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by XXXXTENTACION: 9:08am On Jun 24, 2020
Apc zombies will be running from this thread like fire.

anyway lets just blame this one on the previous administration as usual.

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Bossontop(m): 9:09am On Jun 24, 2020
undecided
U can imagine say na america wan dey track down awa corrupt pipu abii......while EFCC jus dey pursue bubu enemies upandan.....its really sad

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by sapientia(m): 9:11am On Jun 24, 2020
They should stop that joke

Buhari body odour is enough to make his inner circle not to steal

It might be another Buhari

But if its the unapologetic coupist Boko Haram sympathizer, he is incorruptible since his days as PTF head,,

He only likes Oil

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by DaddyRochie1642: 9:18am On Jun 24, 2020
How Many Times Have I Heard This Nonsense,

Mark My Words, There'll Never Be An Arrest.. No Member From Buhari's Cartel Will Be Arrested, You'll See
Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by tritt(m): 9:20am On Jun 24, 2020
The allegations are weighty.

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Afolabimills(m): 9:22am On Jun 24, 2020
Buhari apc will down the memory lane as the most corrupt selfish greedy thieves hypocrites in d history Nigeria

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Mysticwebb: 9:26am On Jun 24, 2020
This source is not legit. We need a reliable source before taking this serious.
Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Asgard13: 9:27am On Jun 24, 2020
Yoruba Apc coming for Buhari...

Yoruba are fighting for political survival in Nigeria grin
Buhari is number one enemy now? Their alternate moniker have been activated grin

Normal to use igbo moniker
Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Somodooo: 9:36am On Jun 24, 2020
Trust me Abacha corruption regime is a child's play compare to the looting and embezzling going on in this regime

thunder scatter buhari Insha'Allah amin
thunder scatter buhari Insha'Allah amin
thunder scatter Aisha masha Allah Amin

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by sweetsell: 9:40am On Jun 24, 2020
FROM NIKIRUKA WEBSITE I FEAR WHO NO FEAR THIS YEYE EBO GIRL.
Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by seunmsg(m): 9:45am On Jun 24, 2020
The source is not credible but I hope the story is true. They should all be properly investigated and prosecuted if necessary.

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by SarkinYarki: 9:47am On Jun 24, 2020
Most corrupt govt ever

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Re: US Probes Buhari Aides Over Laundering Of Millions In Dubai, London by Asgard13: 10:13am On Jun 24, 2020
JuliusmaIema:
shut it

grin
Make me

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