Emails Show Shell in Billion Dollar Nigeria Oil Bribery Scheme - Full Report

Publisher:
Global Witness
Publication Date:
10 April 2017
Tags:
Nigeria, Company News, International Organizations and Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Petroleum

Internal Shell emails seen by Finance Uncovered and Global Witness show how the world's fifth biggest company took part in a scheme which deprived Nigeria and its people of $1.1 billion in a murky deal for access to one of Africa's most valuable oil blocks, known as OPL 245.

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