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Nigeria: How Atiku Bagudu Hid Billions Amassed Through Abacha - Report
Daily Trust, 5 October 2021
Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State is currently in the eye of the storm over the controversial wealth he allegedly got through General Sani Abacha, a former Head of State. Read more »
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Nigeria: #PandoraPapers - For 179 Million Pounds, 137 Nigerians Acquire 233 UK Properties
Premium Times, 6 October 2021
In the last three decades, at least 233 properties were bought by 166 offshore companies with a combined worth today of £350 million. Behind these companies were 137… Read more »
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Nigeria: #PandoraPapers - How Stella Oduah Secretly Bought N5 Billion London Properties with Cash
Premium Times, 6 October 2021
Seven London properties are connected to Ms Oduah - one in her name, two through her Nigerian-incorporated firm, and four secretly through her Seychelles offshore company. Read more »
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Nigeria: #PandoraPapers - Inside the Secret Offshore Companies, London Properties of NPA Chief, Bello-Koko
Premium Times, 6 October 2021
The reason Mr Bello-Koko did not acquire the London assets in his own name instead of hiding behind shell companies is unknown. Read more »
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Kenya: City Boss Guardiola Joins Kenyatta Family in 'Pandora Papers' List
Nairobi News, 5 October 2021
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has joined President Uhuru Kenyatta in the swelling 'Pandora Papers' list. Read more »
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Kenya: Pandora Papers - President Kenyatta Calls for Audit of All Secret Offshore Accounts
Nation, 5 October 2021
The release of the Pandora Papers, linking a number of high-level individuals to secret offshore accounts and properties, yesterday reignited debate on the role of tax havens where… Read more »
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Africa: New Global Probe Exposes African Leaders' Secret Offshore Wealth
allAfrica, 4 October 2021
A number of African leaders have been named by an international consortium of journalists as secretly owning assets overseas which show some of them to be enormously wealthy… Read more »
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Nigeria: #PandoraPapers - How Governor Bagudu Amassed Dirty Billions and How He is Hiding It
Premium Times, 5 October 2021
Mr Bagudu was helped by British firms as he worked to conceal the huge wealth he made as a key member of the Abacha plunder machine. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenyatta Promises to Respond to Pandora Papers Expose
Capital FM, 4 October 2021
President Uhuru Kenyatta has welcomed the "Pandora Papers" investigation on offshore accounts in which he is named as a beneficiary of billions of shillings allegedly stashed by… Read more »
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Nigeria: Pandora Papers - Inside Ex-Governor Peter Obi's Secret Businesses
Premium Times, 4 October 2021
Peter Obi serially violated the law by failing to declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau the companies and assets he tucked away in secrecy havens. Read more »
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Nigeria: Global Probe Exposes the Secrets of Some of Nigeria's Rich and Powerful
Premium Times, 3 October 2021
The Pandora Papers series is launching more than five years after the Panama Papers revelations of 2016. That investigation exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140… Read more »
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Kenya: Kenyatta's Secret Offshore Wealth Revealed
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 3 October 2021
The Kenyatta family has ruled one of Africa's largest economies for decades. But to the Swiss advisers who helped them funnel wealth into tax havens, they were 'Client 13173'. Read more »
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Africa: Pandora Papers - Trove of Documents Shows Hidden Wealth of World Leaders
VOA, 3 October 2021
Current and former leaders from throughout the world have amassed vast wealth and secret real estate holdings across the globe, hundreds of investigative journalists reported on… Read more »
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Africa: Pandora Papers Highlight Call to End Tax Havens
Oxfam, 3 October 2021
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a new report today exposing the wealthy individuals and multinational corporations using tax havens to… Read more »
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Africa: Kenyatta Family's Offshore Millions Uncovered in Pandora Papers Investigation
DW, 3 October 2021
Millions of leaked documents reveal the financial secrets of how world leaders, billionaires and celebrities use tax havens. Tony Blair, Ukraine's Zelenskyy and Shakira are among… Read more »
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Africa: Pandora Papers Explainer - How the Powerful Hide Wealth Offshore
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 4 October 2021
The 'Pandora Papers' documents allegedly tie hundreds of politicians and officials to opaque offshore accounts and tax havens. What can be done about a system that - though legal -… Read more »
Pandora Papers Blow Lid Off World Leaders' Secrets
It is five years since the Panama Papers exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140 politicians in more than 50 countries.
Now in the Pandora Papers, a number of African leaders have been named by an international consortium of journalists as secretly owning assets overseas which show some of them to be enormously wealthy compared to the citizens of their own countries, reports AllAfrica.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta responded quickly to the revelations of his family's wealth by promising to deal comprehensively with them soon. "The Pandora Papers and subsequent follow up audits will lift that veil of secrecy and darkness for those who can not explain their assets or wealth," President Kenyatta said, adding, "That these reports will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe."
The report based investigative reporting which details the offshore hideaways of some of the world's most powerful personalities was launched on October 4, after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world.
The Pandora Papers project is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained a trove of 11.9 million confidential files.
