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Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Faber(m): 4:28pm On Oct 06, 2022
RZArecta:
our political elite are very wicked

Ask them to develope their state they will be building plaza and shopping malls, up and down they still still rent out at outrageous prizes. Then they will build flyovers, even on wrong locations

When you build plazas and malls without building industries to encourage local production, you are only promoting, importation.

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Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by GavelSlam: 4:31pm On Oct 06, 2022
Faber:


Ask them to develope their state they will be building plaza and shopping malls, up and down they still still rent out at outrageous prizes. Then they will build flyovers, even on wrong locations

When you build plazas and malls without building industries to encourage local production, you are only promoting, importation.

Some are strongly into importation.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by femisplash: 4:39pm On Oct 06, 2022
Racoon:
My STFU! Everyone know how Chimaroke Nnamani instituted the reign of terror to heavily embezzled Enugu State funds to acquire Ebeano Housing Estate and other fraudulently acquires assets that were retrieved from him by the EFCC.

Sane people in alaigbo don't condone any shitty emilokan kind of criminal because of nah our person. Orji Uzor Kalu, Ekweremadu, Andy Ubah collect am wotowoto.I brought you here to confirm your doubts and clear your warped mindset.
But you can condone the biggest criminal of them. Warped sense.

Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Racoon(m): 4:45pm On Oct 06, 2022
femisplash:
But you can condone the biggest criminal of them. Warped sense.
What became of the Pandora papers investigation by the EFCC? What have the Buhari govt warped anti-corruption lapdog dogs (EFCC, ICPC, NFIU, NPF, etc) done about it if there is corruption? Abi they can't fight corruption again? Do zombies with sense, una no gree.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by femisplash: 4:58pm On Oct 06, 2022
Racoon:
What became of the Pandora papers investigation by the EFCC? What have the Buhari govt wsrped anti-corruption lapdog dogs (EFCC, ICPC, NFIU, NPF, etc) done about it if there is corruption? Abi they can fight corruption again? Do zombies with sense, una no gree.
Has Obi denied it?,rather, he was making silly excuses for his crime.
How many people on the list have so far be investigated by EFCC?, does that invalidate the authenticity of the reports?.. As big as Madueke's int'l lootery, she's still walking a free bird. Thanks to FG being cash strapped to execute several corruption cases on all fronts.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Prinxzona10: 5:40pm On Oct 06, 2022
Imagine Igbos castigating and criticising one of their own for corruption cases while Tinubu's urchins are defending the same man and attacking Igbos for attacking one of their evil leader..

Irony of life and yet they keep telling Igbos that they defend their own just because they support Peter Obi or how many Igbos support Orji Uzor Kalu,Uzodinma or Rocha's Okorocha etc...

Honestly,the problem of Nigeria is some of these Tinubu's urchins via Buhari's miscreants prior to 2015 election..

Nigerians really need to understand how despicable all these Tinubu's urchins are,they don't want anything good for Nigerians...
Just imagine people supporting Tinubu and imagine some lunatical lowlifers defending their oppressors,accruing curses on themselves in the name of politic of hatred,tribe and religion... Damn!!!.

Tinubu's urchins are doing the most difficult job on Earth now and the worst part of it is that the one they always attack here,will in February 2023 becomes the Nigerian President elect because the election is between only Peter Obi and Atiku Abubukar..

I rest my case..Gracias!!!

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Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by sukar886: 5:52pm On Oct 06, 2022
Mckandre:
U.S. court orders FBI to seize $1 million Chimaroke Nnamani stole in last-minute looting of Enugu treasury


U.S. court ordered the FBI to seize about $1 million stolen by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani as part of massive looting of public funds he embarked upon days before leaving office as Enugu governor in 2007, court documents recently obtained by Peoples Gazette said.

Mr Nnamani, representing Enugu East Senatorial District, had stolen the funds from his impoverished state coffers and used proxies to wire-transfer them from Nigerian banks to bank accounts he fraudulently opened with AmSouth Bank in Orlando, Florida, according to forfeiture affidavits submitted by special agents of the FBI.

The previously unreported fraud cases were instituted against Mr Nnamani before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama barely days after he left office in May 2007 and wound up two years later in May 2009.


The FBI said Mr Nnamani, who was elected governor and sworn in as Nigeria returned to civil rule in May 1999, started looting Enugu treasury by the early aughts. Although the FBI and Nigerian anti-graft office EFCC seized property and cash assets laundered by Mr Nnamani in separate proceedings in the U.S. and Nigeria, respectively, both law enforcement authorities said they have yet to determine how much the Nigerian politician actually plundered from his state while its residents languished in poverty.

While the FBI was only able to trace about $41.8 million in stolen funds that Mr Nnamani laundered abroad, the EFCC successfully confiscated billions of naira from the Nigerian senator, who also carries American citizenship, including the N5.3 billion seized via a federal court order in July 2015.

From the latest documents obtained by The Gazette, American authorities said Mr Nnamani moved $961,184.27 in 21 tranches in the course of four days leading to his departure from Enugu State Government House as he concluded his two-term mandate due on May 29, 2007.

On March 15, 16, 21, and 30, 2007, Mr Nnamani pilfered the illicit funds through eight Nigerian banks, including Standard Chartered Bank, Fidelity Bank, Sterling Bank and since-defunct Platinum Habib Bank (PHB), to the U.S. AmSouth Bank (now Regions Bank), where Mr Nnamani had previously opened 20 accounts with Chinero Nwigwe, his sister and alleged co-conspirator.

Some of the 21 fraudulent transactions listed in the FBI complaint filed in October 2007 included $63,964 on March 15 from Platinum Habib Bank in Nigeria to AmSouth Bank account number 7966914620; $64,964 on March 15 from Platinum Habib Bank to AmSouth Bank account number 7966914620; $56,189 from Platinum Habib Bank to AmSouth Bank account number 7966914647 on March 15; $25,772 from Fidelity Bank to AmSouth Bank account 7966914655 on March 15; and $21,975 wired on March 21 from Sterling Bank to AmSouth Bank account 7966914728.

The FBI said nearly two dozen companies linked to Mr Nnamani were used to move the stolen funds, including Jasmine Group, Rock City Group, Hill Gate LLC, Parmon Oil and Gas Ltd, Boskel Nigeria Ltd, Rainbow Assoc. LLC, Tollman Allied Services, Capital Index Ltd, Universal-Sodexho Nigeria Ltd, Intecon Partnership Ltd, The Ferguson Group LLC, Elizabeth Group LLC.

“It is unlikely that Chimaroke Nnamani possesses an adequate source of legitimate income to account for the acquisition of the defendant funds,” the FBI said, adding that “additional investigation has failed to identify a legitimate source of income for Chinero Nwigwe to account for the transfer of funds alleged herein.”

“The defendant funds held on deposit in the twenty named bank accounts are the subjects of, or otherwise were involved in numerous financial transactions conducted by, or at the direction of Chimaroke Nnamani for the purpose of concealing or disguising the nature, the location, the source, the ownership or the control of the proceeds of “specified unlawful activity” in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)1(1).

“Therefore, the defendant funds are subject to forfeiture to the United States of America pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(A),” the FBI further stated in its affidavit.

When it became apparent that the Nigerian politician’s legitimate earnings could not account for the millions of dollars in his possession after a drawn forfeiture proceeding that spanned about two years, Judge William Acker issued a consolidated ruling ordering the seizure of the illicit funds as well as forfeitures of Mr Nnamani’s assets to the U.S. government on May 13, 2009.

The Gazette on Tuesday reported the forfeiture of the Nigerian politician’s lush Heathrow, Florida, residence, which he purchased with $1.8 million cash after stealing and laundering $41.8 million from the southeast Nigeria state’s coffers.

Mr Nnamani, who has recently branded himself as a moral, responsible leader devoid of the corrupt behaviour that has long been typical of a Nigerian politician, did not respond to The Gazette’s request for comments regarding his unreported U.S. corruption case, which came days after he was named a senior member of Bola Tinubu’s presidential campaign council.

Despite the fact that his criminal records were preserved in the records of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Mr Nnamani on Tuesday sponsored a statement across several Nigerian newspapers, claiming no such case existed and that the report came from “political foes and professional blackmailers.”

Despite failing to show any evidence of his claims, Mr Nnamani managed to induce at least a dozen Nigerian reporters with cash bribes to promptly circulate his falsehood across their media outlets, marking yet another manifestation of the brown envelope menace that has plagued the country’s media space for decades.

It was unclear why the Nigerian government did not seek repatriation of the multimillion-dollar cash and asset forfeitures of Mr Nnamani’s loot from the U.S. government to the people of Enugu, who could use the funds if tied to education, health or other human development projects. A spokesman for Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, whose office chases return of stolen funds stashed abroad, did not return a request seeking comments.

https://gazettengr.com/u-s-court-orders-fbi-to-seize-1-million-chimaroke-nnamani-stole-in-last-minute-looting-of-enugu-treasury-2/
That's good, talk rubbish about obi and enter one chance .... Tinubu boy
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by AyakaDunukofia: 6:09pm On Oct 06, 2022
This news shouldn't be hidden.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Soulsymbol99: 6:18pm On Oct 06, 2022
A million dollars na pokect money compared to what most people hv looted/looting undecided
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 6:21am On Oct 08, 2022
GavelSlam:


Some are strongly into importation.
Like Tinubu’s Oando, Dangotes, Otedolas, BUA Rabius .. and all other fuel importers which account for 95% of fx demand
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by GavelSlam: 6:23am On Oct 08, 2022
BigIyanga:

Like Tinubu’s Oando, Dangotes, Otedolas, BUA Rabius .. and all other fuel importers which account for 95% of fx demand

Which of the Tinubu's own OandO?
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 6:23am On Oct 08, 2022
Soulsymbol99:
A million dollars na pokect money compared to what most people hv looted/looting undecided
Stole $42m in 2007.. N32bn today.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 6:31am On Oct 08, 2022
GavelSlam:


Which of the Tinubu's own OandO?

Wale Tinubu is the largest shareholder of Oando Plc Company is registered in British Virgin Island which owns 55% of the company. Intels owner, Mr. Gabriele Volpi is also another majority owner. Tinunus owed Mr Volpi $250m. Tinubus sold oando shares to him while Volpi sold some Intels shares to Tinubus.. Atiku sold his Intels shares and Tinubus bought him out.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by GavelSlam: 6:34am On Oct 08, 2022
BigIyanga:

Wale Tinubu is the largest shareholder of Oando Plc Company is registered in British Virgin Island which owns 55% of the company. Intels owner, Mr. Gabriele Volpi is also another majority owner. Tinunus owed Mr Volpi $250m. Tinubus sold oando shares to him while Volpi sold some Intels shares to Tinubus.. Atiku sold his Intels shares and Tinubus bought him out.

You are speaking of 2 Tinubus.

When you want to address any matter, please try to include their first names for clarity.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by obyrich(m): 6:34am On Oct 08, 2022
Faber:


1 million dollars na your mate...he is in coma right now, make I go his TL go ask him how far grin grin
God is punishing them one by one.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by VladimirPutiin(m): 6:36am On Oct 08, 2022
Faber:


That money will solve Enugu water issues for ever. He will build a dam that will collect all waste water or from some rivers like Orji River, etc and then the water will be treated and channeled to different homes...

Libya no get a single river, but they get good water pass Nigeria thanks to Gaddafi. Chimaroke would have done that for Enugu people

Just 1 million dollars will do all that ?? Not supporting the looter anyways but i was thinking that amount won’t do such for the whole Enugu state.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Faber(m): 6:49am On Oct 08, 2022
VladimirPutiin:


Just 1 million dollars will do all that ?? Not supporting the looter anyways but i was thinking that amount won’t do such for the whole Enugu state.

You're right sha..then the 1 million dollars will revitalize the state water board
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by VladimirPutiin(m): 6:54am On Oct 08, 2022
Faber:


You're right sha..then the 1 million dollars will revitalize the state water board

Even at that time it can’t revitalize the whole of Enugu state water board with its numerous cities, towns and villages. It will definitely take more. Just my Take
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by Advocate500: 7:07am On Oct 08, 2022
The criminal have abandoned his Twitter account for more than 6days now.our illustrious son.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 7:11am On Oct 08, 2022
GavelSlam:


You are speaking of 2 Tinubus.

When you want to address any matter, please try to include their first names for clarity.
So Wale is not a Tinubu.. ok..keep wallowing in denial
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by GavelSlam: 7:29am On Oct 08, 2022
BigIyanga:

So Wale is not a Tinubu.. ok..keep wallowing in denial

Ok sir.

Obi was arrested in India for drug trafficking.
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 8:29am On Oct 08, 2022
GavelSlam:


Ok sir.

Obi was arrested in India for drug trafficking.
Sourceless spoof.. show us evidence. Chimaroke ur ally, was criminally indicted and charged in rhe US and Naija.. show us PO’s arrest sheet
Re: U.S. Court Orders FBI To Seize $1 Million Chimaroke Nnamani Stole by BigIyanga: 9:03am On Oct 08, 2022
Advocate500:
The criminal have abandoned his Twitter account for more than 6days now.our illustrious son.
U dey mind. Brokeazz Dr who had nothing until Jim Nwobodo brought him back to contest. He built ebeano estate with state treasury and converted all to his personal property. He stole about $100m .. N75bn in today’s rate. He’s supporting BAT.. show me ur friend
Both were criminally indicted and charged in the US and Naija lol

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