₦airaland Forum

Kabongo1:
Is it a requirement to visit America if you want to contest for the presidency?

In February 2007, a Nigerian ad hoc Senate Committee
was formed to examine the EFCC charges. Mr. Abubakar made a presentation to the Committee,
asserting in part that the allegations were a bid to prevent him from running for office.1015 The
Senate Committee subsequently called for Mr. Abubakar to be “sanctioned,” because he had
“abused his office by aiding and abetting the diversion of public funds in the sum of $145
million” as loans to his friend, however, that the full
Senate imposed such a sanction on Mr. Abubakar.

omonaijiria:
You keep making fool of yourself

delkuf:
we know say Na thief, leave am. we go still vote am. who nor be thief. buhari nor be thief abi. oshinbajo nor Na saint. Na e make them they trace nema fund to am. all of them Na thief. even you when this rubbish, you be thief

lol @ ipobs trying to prove what we already know about them..

Who are the unpatriotic elements and supporters of crooked and corrupt looting and stealing clwons in Nigeria? Ipobs.


Atiku the prolific and voracious looting and stealing will be the president of your ipob villages, not Nigeria.

Can't wait to see you jokers go back to referendum and agitation after Athiefkulooter s loss...

Exponental:
do u understand English tradermoni is a means of buying votes..... do u understand that

OkaNaUbe:
Mediocre post by a mediocre slave of a mediocre dullard. No report but what you copied and pasted or concocted?

United States Senate
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
*** Carl Levin, Chairman
Tom Coburn, Ranking Minority Member
KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT
OF THE UNITED STATES:
FOUR CASE HISTORIES
MAJORITY AND MINORITY
STAFF REPORT
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE
ON INVESTIGATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL710.pdf

The Jefferson connection.



https://i2.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2017/12/Atiku.jpg


The bribery investigation started in March 2005 when a “cooperating witness”, who has since been identified as a Virginia-based businessman, Lori Mody, approached the FBI after he suspected that he had been a victim of a fraudulent scheme involving Mr Jefferson, Vernon Jackson, and Brett Pfeffer.

Mr. Mody told the FBI that he suspected that the trio were scheming to defraud him of $3.5 million using Mr. Jackson’s company, iGate Incorporated.

He said he paid the money to Mr Jackson, who had developed a technology that could enable the transmission of data, audio and video through copper called “Triple Play”, for its reacquisition from another company which had acquired it from iGate. However, Mr. Jackson, after collecting the money, could not produce proof that he had reacquired the technology.

He also told the FBI that Mr. Jefferson promised to assist him with his business dealings in Nigeria for a percent share of his business, which he directed to be issued in the names of his children.

At the time, Mr. Jefferson was a member of the congressional African Trade and Investment caucus as well as member of the congressional caucus for Nigeria.

The FBI revealed that Mr. Jefferson had already received a 30 per cent equity in a Nigerian company controlled by Mr. Mody in exchange for promoting communication equipment and services offered by iGate in Nigeria. Mr. Jefferson also requested that the 30 per cent stake be placed in a Nigerian company controlled by his children.

Atiku Abubakar
He was expected to use his influence to communicate with the Nigerian president and vice president to secure the business venture for iGate. The FBI said he wrote to Atiku seeking his assistance in overcoming opposition to iGate’s business venture from the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL).

“With regard to the Nigerian business venture, Jefferson has discussed the making of payments to high-ranking government officials there including the Vice President of Nigeria,” the affidavit stated.

“Congressman Jefferson met with the Vice President of Nigeria on July 18, 2005 in Potomac, Maryland. At the meeting the Vice President agreed to help secure the necessary approvals for the participants in the Nigerian business venture to commence operations in Nigeria in exchange for at least 50% of profit planned to be received by CW’s (Mr Mody, the cooperating witness) Nigerian partner,” he wrote.

The FBI also claimed that Mr. Jefferson discussed the payment of $500,000 to Atiku before the commencement of the Nigerian business operations. Video surveillance taken on July 30, 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City indicated that Mr. Jeffeson collected $100,000 in a leather briefcase (a reddis-brown Bosca briefcase) from Mr. Mody, which he allegedly claimed was to be given to Atiku to secure his support for the Nigerian business venture.

Two days later, Mr. Jefferson told Mr. Mody that he had delivered what he described as the “African art” to Atiku in the early hours of July 31, 2005.

Mr. Jefferson had originally suggested, in one of the two meetings with Mr Mody, where the possibility of bribing Atiku was discussed, that the alleged bribe should be paid into a foundation run by Ms. Douglas.

During the conversation Mr. Jefferson added that the stated aim of the foundation was to help Nigerian women. He however said the foundation was likely a front.

On the evening of July 18, 2005, the FBI stated that Mr. Jefferson visited Atiku and Ms. Douglas at their Potomac mansion and held a private meeting with the former vice president for approximately an hour.

At the end of the meeting Mr. Jefferson met with Mr. Mody at a restaurant and told him that Atiku agreed to help with securing the necessary approval for NITEL to participate in the iGate venture for a share of the profit to be earned by iGate’s Nigerian partner, Rosecom (Rosecom has a 25 per cent stake in the business) expected to earn from the business and a $500,000.00 described as “front end” payment.

Mr Jefferson also suggested that the money could be sent to Atiku through an investment in the stock market.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/261868-exclusive-blocked-from-america-atiku-sells-controversial-2-95-million-u-s-home.html

Approximately $2.8 million of the bribe payments was routed through a bank account in
Potomac, Maryland, in the name of the wife of a former Nigerian Vice President. The Vice
President’s wife, a dual U.S.-Nigerian citizen living in the United States, served as the
representative of a business consultant that entered into fictitious business consultant
agreements … but did no actual work for Siemens. The purpose of these payments was to
bribe government officials. Other corrupt payments included the purchase of approximately $172,000 in watches for Nigerian officials designated in internal Siemens records as ‘P.’ and‘V.P.,’ likely referring to the President and Vice President of Nigeria.”

The Subcommittee contacted Siemens about this allegation and also reviewed the
Citibank account records. The Subcommittee identified Citibank records showing three wire
transfers from Siemens AG, in 2001 and 2002, that together provided over $1.7 million to
Ms. Douglas’ personal checking account at Citibank. This chart identifies those wire transfers.

An internal Chevy Chase Trust Company memorandum dated January 30, 2006,
recommended resigning from the JDA Family Trust for the following reasons:
“ 1) Mr. Abubakar’s source of wealth is impractical to verify. Under the US PATRIOT
Act, Chevy Chase Trust is obligated to conduct enhanced due diligence on its high
risk accounts. Since Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) are high risk, Chevy Chase
Trust must develop a reasonable belief that the source of funds is not derived from
illegal activities. Obtaining sufficient proof in Mr. Abubakar’s situation may not be
possible. Failure to adequately document the source of funds for this relationship
would increase the regulatory risk to the Trust Company.
2) The ongoing criminal investigation of Rep. William Jefferson could spread to
Mr. Abubakar and his wife. If she were to be indicted, Chevy Chase Trust would be
serving as co-trustee with person involved in suspected bribery of a US public
official. Given the high degree of media that these cases are receiving currently,
Chevy Chase Trust could be at increased reputation risk.”1164
With regard to the source of the trust funds, Chevy Chase noted that it “understood that
Abubakar family wealth, principally that of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was the source of funds for
the JDA Family Trust when it was established at Merrill Lynch.”1165 Chevy Chase noted that the
trust had been fully funded prior to its coming to the bank, and thus Chevy Chase “did not
undertake additional efforts to identify the source of funds in the account.”

In 2004, the then President Bush barred Atiku and other corrupt politically exposed persons from being issued visa to the United States.

Mutemenot:
Where's the report card/sheet ?

United States Senate
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
*** Carl Levin, Chairman
Tom Coburn, Ranking Minority Member
KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT
OF THE UNITED STATES:
FOUR CASE HISTORIES
MAJORITY AND MINORITY
STAFF REPORT
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE
ON INVESTIGATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL710.pdf

Here is a summary of the report:

Atiku Case History.

From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.

In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation.

While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts.


https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/12/03/corruption-us-senate-report-finally-nailed-atiku-abubakar/

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has for a long time been challenging Nigerians who accused him of being corrupt to come forward and prove it. So far nobody has come forward.

Well, has received a report on how Atiku was the subject of a probe ten years ago, by a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin.

The report detailed how Atiku Abubakar while still the vice president of Nigeria between 2000 and 2008, used offshore companies to siphon millions of dollars to his fourth wife in the United States, Jennifer Douglas.


In 2004, the then President Bush barred Atiku and other corrupt politically exposed persons from being issued visa to the United States.


The committee submitted its report on 4 February 2010, three years after Atiku left office.

The report unveiled violations of US laws by Atiku and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas. It also included revelations about Siemens bribe paid into one of the accounts, and it possibly provided the basis for Atiku being barred from entering the United States, since then.


https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/12/03/corruption-us-senate-report-finally-nailed-atiku-abubakar/

jmaine:
You have always been paid a incompetent clown....

https://punchng.com/dont-criminal-case-atiku-us/

colossus2:
Atiku is corrupt. Most Nigerians are corrupt.
But you have not justified why visiting USA is the standard for integrity. Until then, we will all be playing the “if” game.

omo1478:
I don't know why people are so insensitive. Tomorrow been monday, the peoples democratic party (PDP) I will kick start their presidential campaign at sokoto. And you expect Alhaji Atiku, the presidential candidate of the party to be away from his first inauguration campaign? I spit on some people's brain.

jmaine:
International fugitive designated by who? The same US who stated that ATIKU has no criminal records with them. The same POTUS who labeled the one you support the most lifeless person he has ever met.

We need a President that will work for Nigerians and not one who feels staying away from Nigeria for long is a great achievement worth stating.

The current President in Aso rock is a thief supervising one of the biggest heist in NNPC history as the petroleum minister.

Discussing Atiku visa won't win you the elections, telling the electorates how you seek to drastically reduce the prevailing hunger in the streets will be more beneficial.

Think about it while you muse about the irrelevant quote in bold.

abc115:
''The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything''
It is stupidity of the highest order , for those supporting international fugitive and criminal as Presidential Candidate. That should be your major concern my brother. Dont place form over substance.

lexy2014:
Is travelling 2d US a requirement 4 being president of Nigeria?

Foreign Political Corruption Task Force
Strategy
• State Department Engaged – request
comes from the effected country.
• High Level of Cooperation from effected

• Suspension of Visas of the PEP or PEP
family members denied access to US.
- Presidential Proclamation 7750


Deny Safe Haven to Corrupt Officials:

• On January 12, 2004, President Bush signed
Presidential Proclamation number 7750, under section
212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, making
excludable and suspending entry into the United States
as immigrants or non-immigrants of certain corrupt public
officials, those who corrupt them, and their dependents.

• The Proclamation applies to both current and former
officials and those who corrupted them, as well as
dependents, in all immigrant and non-immigrant visa
categories.

https://www.ice.gov/doclib/aml/pdf/2010/morrisey.pdf

colossus2:
If Diezani visits USA, will visiting USA still be a standard for integrity?
If Trump has some illegalities with Saudi Arabia in some shady arms dealings, will visiting Saudi Arabia be a standard of integrity to the Americans?