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PandoraPapers: I have $15 million in Offshore accounts – Peter Obi

PandoraPapers: I have $15 million in Offshore accounts – Peter Obi

Former Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has revealed why he opened offshore accounts for himself and his family abroad.

Obi got into hot water after the release of the Pandora Papers, a project carried out by a global International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

The project saw 600 journalists from 150 news organisations around the world poring through a trove of 11.9 million confidential files.

The leaked files were retrieved from some offshore services firms around the world that set up shell companies and other offshore entities for clients. Obi was exposed in the report as one of the personalities who clandestinely set up and operated businesses overseas, including in notorious tax and secrecy havens in ways that breached Nigerian laws.

Appearing on Arise TV on Monday, monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA, he addressed the issue stating that the he breached no law and committed no crime. In his words;

“Trust company is a legitimate vehicle used everywhere globally for investment, savings and estate planning purposes. In my Particular case and that of my family, it was done on very valuable advice of our then bankers, Loyce TSB. This is what they did for all their international clients who operated at the time i lived in the UK. They will help you to see that the formulated trust company offshore and that is what we did.”

“This company was never used to launder money before, during and after till date. It wasn’t used for anything during my time in office. It was strictly a trust company for savings and family planning that was used to support our borrowings which we even invested in this country”.

When asked by one of the Programme anchors if he had $500 million in offshore accounts. Obi replied;

“If you see more than 3% of that, in there, confiscate all my properties here and abroad”.

He continued: “As a father, I save for my children, i save for my family and they Know”.

“If you go there and find more than 3%, about 3% which is about $15 million, if i bequeath my children $500 million, i have cursed them. There is money you bequeath People, you curse them. You bequeath them what is manageable so that they can start their life. If you see anything more than $15 million there, confiscate what i have overseas and here”.

 

 

Oluwasegun Adesuyi

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