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Paradise Papers: Saraki violates Nigerian law again, linked to another firm in offshore tax haven

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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, is in trouble again. On Sunday his name popped up in the global list of infamy exposing some leading world politicians for utilising shell companies in tax havens to either conceal assets, evade tax, or launder funds.

That revelation, which is capable of attracting fresh criminal charges to the politician, came only 18 months after a similar investigation exposed his ownership of at least three secret offshore firms which he used in concealing assets abroad.

The expose also came even as the senator is battling to extricate himself from charges relating to false asset declaration. The matter is now at the Court of Appeal after the Code of Conduct Tribunal acquitted and discharged him.

In the new findings by PREMIUM TIMES and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Mr. Saraki was found to sit on the board of an offshore entity while he was governor and later member of the Nigerian Senate in violation of his country’s code of conduct law.

Read more : https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/248462-paradise-papers-saraki-violates-nigerian-law-linked-another-firm-offshore-tax-haven.html

 

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  1. Anita Kingsley

    November 6, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    Saraki is know for violating the laws of the land, he has survived trials ones, I’m sure this one won’t be a big deal. A senate president who’s not respond because he’s a “friend” of the government

  2. Animashaun Ayodeji

    November 6, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Saraki will not stop abusing Nigerian laws if he’s not stopped. The Senate president deserves strong sanction that will make him remorseful, else, he’ll keep misbehaving

    • Anita Kingsley

      November 6, 2017 at 3:40 pm

      The truth is no one can stop him, ha capable of buying those that can stop him, anyone who doesn’t want to comply, he also has the ability to blackmail them into complying.

  3. Abeni Adebisi

    November 6, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    We have the wrong senate president, but his tenure will soon be over. This government in general should be flushed out, it’s not working

  4. JOHNSON PETER

    November 6, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    His colleagues will never see this as anything, if Nigeria happens to be a better country, saraki ought to have been kicked out of the senate for long.

    • yanju omotodun

      November 6, 2017 at 9:56 pm

      He is enjoying the support of the majority in the Senate and that made it hard to oust him out

  5. seyi jelili

    November 6, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    Saraki is a big fish that can’t be caught by small net

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