Frauds & Scandals

Whistleblow:FCA, PRA Commences Investigations into Jes Staley and Barclays

10 Apr 2017 07:00/Barclays Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays) announce that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have commenced investigations into: ·    Jes Staley, Group Chief Executive Officer of Barclays, as to his individual conduct and senior manager responsibilities relating to Barclays whistleblowing programme […]

NNPC Fails To Remit $21.7b, N316b To Federation Account, Group Says

Culled–Sahara Reporters April 4, 2017/Daily Trust The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its upstream arm, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), have failed to remit $21.778 billion and N316.074 billion respectively to the Federation Account. NEITI, in a policy brief released […]

Vice President Osinbajo Calls for More Robust Global Collaboration to Facilitate Recovery of Stolen Assets

March 30, 2017/Press Release *Highlights FG’s difficulty recovering stolen assets from banks abroad @ global forum in Paris “The tracing, freezing and Return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult  for most African countries. We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to […]