Nigeria
FRESH SCRUTINY OVER $500,000 PAYMENT TO ATIKU'S FORMER WIFE IN MAMBILLA DISPUTE
Fresh details from the Mambilla hydropower arbitration have renewed scrutiny of a $500,000 payment made by Sunrise Power promoter Leno Adesanya to Jennifer Douglas, then wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, in January 2003. Adesanya described it as a foreign exchange transaction, but the ICC tribunal said the explanation lacked supporting evidence. The tribunal did not find evidence that Atiku used his official position to secure the contract for Sunrise.
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