No fewer than ten 10 Nigerian Politician has been implicated in the Pandora Papers investigation.
Gatekeepers News reports that No fewer than ten 10 Nigerian Politician has been implicated in the Pandora Papers investigation, featuring eight African countries.
The ‘Pandora Papers’ is an investigation based on one of the biggest-ever leaks of financial documents, which, on Sunday, exposed a hidden world of shielded wealth belonging to hundreds of politicians and billionaires.
Considered as one of the largest ever global media investigations, the Pandora Papers involved more than 600 journalists who, together, analysed some 11.9 million documents from financial services companies around the world.
They found links between almost 1,000 companies in offshore havens and 336 high-level politicians and public officials, including more than a dozen serving heads of state and government.
In all, there are 336 politicians listed in the document, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which published the earth-shaking papers on Sunday.
According to an interactive map of the leaked documents in Africa, Nigeria leads with ten politicians.
Gatekeepers News had earlier reported the joint investigation report on the former governor of Anambra State, South-East Nigeria and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi.
Gatekeepers News had also reported how the governor of Kebbi State, Northwest Nigeria, Atiku Bagudu, amassed billions of dollars offshore.
In the report, five Côte d’Ivoire politicians were helped by foreign agents to stash money suspected to be looted away from public view.
Ghana has three politicians listed in the documents.
Chad, Kenya and Congo Brazzaville have two politicians, each listed in the infamous documents, while Gabon has three politicians listed.
Angola came second after Nigeria with nine politicians listed in the document, while Zimbabwe and South Africa have two each.
Mozambique has one.
