A leaked report has reportedly linked Nigeria's former head of state, Abdusalami Abubakar to the popular $182million Halliburton bribery scandal.
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New records obtained by the Paris-based Le Monde newspaper and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have unveiled more details on the $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal in Nigeria that indicted several top government official, in the country who received the bribes, but for which no Nigerian was ever sent to jail.
Shockingly, the records have unearthed new Nigerian names never previously linked to the Halliburton scandal for which the US oil service giant was indicted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US Justice Department, and was compelled to pay fines running into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Those alleged to have received bribes from a British lawyer, Jeffrey Tesler, included former military head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, his then chief of staff, Major-General Chris Garba (rtd), his wife, Rita, and Andrew Agom, a senior government official who was killed in an attack on a motorcade.
Starting with the narrative of Tesler, who served as the conduit between Halliburton's subsidiary KBR and Nigerian officials who were responsible for approving the $6 billion turnkey contract for the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) project in Bonny, Rivers State, the documents revealed how Tesler on one occasion dropped off a bag stuffed with $1 million in $100 dollar bills for an official at a foyer of a luxury hotel in Abuja.
