Frauds & Scandals

Money Laundering: Appeal Court Upturns Ibori’s Acquittal By Justice Awokulehin, Orders New Trial

Six years after Justice Marcel Awokulehin sensationally struck out all 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a three-man panel of justices at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal Thursday ruled that […]

Sanusi, CBN oppose Intercontinental Bank shareholders’ suit

The Central Bank of Nigeria and its suspended governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, have asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit challenging the sale of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc. Some shareholders of Intercontinental Bank had filed the suit against the CBN and Sanusi, seeking N10bn as […]

Chinese police charge British former head of GSK in China with bribery

Chinese police on Wednesday said they had charged the former British boss of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s China business and other colleagues with corruption, after a probe found the firm made billions of yuan from elaborate schemes to bribe doctors and hospitals. Mark Reilly and two Chinese executives, Zhang Guowei and […]