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Dan Etete
  • Former oil minister, shareholder of malabu oil and gas
  • Born on 10 January 1945
  • Nigerian  nationality

Chief Dan Etete was Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum from 1995 until 1998 during the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. “Chief” is a customary title among teh Ijaw people, a group that lives in the oil-rich state of Bayelsa in the Niger Delta. In 2007, Dan Etete was convicted by… Read More

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Vincenzo Armanna
  • Eni employee until 2013, project leader during eni's negotiations with malabu and the nigerian government
  • Born on 27 February 1972
  • Italian  nationality

“I’m married, I have three children: 14, 12 and 5 years old, and I work essentially for a Saudi company, it’s called Taj Holding, I work in the transport and logistics sector, so I follow some of the biggest contracts that this company has in Saudi Arabia”. This is how… Read More

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Aliyu Abubakar
  • Entrepreneur with many friends in nigerian politics
  • Nigerian  nationality

Aliyu Abubakar is a Nigerian businessman with interests in various sectors, the main ones being real estate and oil. Five Nigerian companies controlled by Abubakar – Novel Properties and Dev. Co, Imperial Union Ltd, Megatech Engineering Ltd and A Group Properties – received part of the money which Eni and… Read More

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Piero Amara
  • Former external lawyer of eni managers and employees
  • Italian  nationality

Piero Armara is a lawyer from Siracusa, Sicily, who acted as external legal counsel for Eni managers and employees between 2002 and February 2018, according to Eni. Amara, together with Giancarlo Longo, public prosecutor in Siracusa, were sentenced to jail in February 2020 for having corrupted the justice system on… Read More

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Gianfranco Falcioni
  • Entrepreneur and honorary deputy-consul of italy in port harcourt, southern nigeria
  • Born on 14 April 1945
  • italian and nigerian  nationality

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Matthew Tonlagha
  • Nigerian entrepreneur of fenog
  • Born on 24 April 1945
  • italian and nigerian  nationality

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Luigi Bisignani
  • Fixer close to paolo scaroni, then number one at eni
  • Born on 18 October 1953
  • italian  nationality

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Chukwuemeka Zubelum “Emeka” Obi
  • Advisor to eni and malabu in negotiations for the acquisition of opl245papers
  • Born on 14 May 1971
  • nigerian  nationality

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Gianluca Di Nardo
  • Intermediary who put emeka obi in touch with the italians who wanted to negotiate the purchase of the opl245 licence
  • Born on 28 October 1967
  • italian  nationality

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Mohammed Adoke Bello
  • ATTORNEY GENERAL IN NIGERIA BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015, UNDER THE GOODLUCK JONATHAN GOVERNMENT
  • Born on 1 September 1952
  • nigerian  nationality

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Gabriele Volpi
  • Entrepreneur in nigeria since the beginning of the eighties, with important connections in nigerian politics
  • Born on 29 June 1943
  • Italian and nigerian  nationality

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