NNPC STAFF MAY BE CHARGED FOR FORGERY IN U.S

Mr. Yar'Adua (Acting GMD NNPC)

Embattled Group General Manager, Corporate, Legal and Secretariat, of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Ms. Sena Anthony may be investigated by the United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX).

A sworn declaration allegedly forged by Sena Anthony was filed with the Federal District Court in the EDTX by NNPC’s U.S. law firm Fulbright & Jaworski. A motion to strike this

declaration was immediately filed by the Plaintiffs Gulf-Petro/Petrec International (GPT-Petrec) with the court, alleging that Ms. Anthony forged a declaration denying that any crude oil had been delivered to the Exxon-Mobil Oil Refinery in the EDTX. This was an attempt by the NNPC to avoid the EDTX Federal Court asserting jurisdiction over NNPC for violations of the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in a “willful attempt to mislead an American Federal Court.” The case was dismissed by the court on grounds of lack of subject matter jurisdiction before charges could be filed against Ms. Anthony.

The NNPC is expected to appear at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday September 6, 2007 in front of Judges Carol Dineen King, Emilio M Garza and Fortunato Pedro Benavides as panel members that will review the appeal of the case. This appeal could lead to a remand back to the EDTX Federal Court for a trial on the merits of the case requesting a judgment that the Nigerian oil corporation pay about $7 Billion in treble damages for the corruption that followed the breach of contract and Ms. Anthony’s orchestration of the bribery of a panel of arbitrators, Andrew W.A. Berkeley, Ian Meakin of the UK and Professor Hans Van Houtte of Belgium

Ms. Sena Anthony (GGM Corporate & Legal NNPC)

The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, empowers Gulf-Petro/Petrec and any American company that is into offshore business to sue foreign corporation partners in U.S Law court for corrupt practices in the US. In a bid to beat that legal provision, Ms Anthony, obtusely representing NNPC’s interest had exhibited “dubious zeal” to claim that Nigeria through NNPC had no such primary contact by way of direct business transaction with any American company such as delivering oil into a refinery in the US.

But a Report by RIMKUS Consultants based in the U.S made nonsense of such “gross misrepresentation of fact” by Ms. Anthony when it blew the lid off the conspicuous presence of Nigerian oil vessels, bill of lading and crude oil at the Exxon-Mobil in Beaumont, Texas in 2005, thus establishing confirmed evidence that Nigeria has always had primary contact and engaged in serious partnership deals with many companies in the U.S and can be sued in the US..

However, in an eighteen paragraph affidavit Ms. Anthony rejected every attempt at creating “minimum contacts” between NNPC, or herself and any American company firmly stating that all contracts were signed with NNPC’s expatriate partners in Nigeria.

She had also submitted another affidavit, seven paragraphs in all, purportedly sworn to and declared by one G Jedy Agba, so-called Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Department.

But authorities who noticed clear inconsistencies in precious documents bearing Sena Anthony’s signatures and her new pattern of signing the submitted affidavit raised an eye brow. They invited in a forensic and calligraphic expert. The expert came out with a shocking revelation that somebody, most likely Ms Anthony, was not being consistent. They found very disturbing incongruity in the different signatures and documents. Invariably, the expert said that it was same person that signed the two tendered affidavits. One for Ms. Anthony and the other for Jedy Agba.

Sena Anthony's different Signatures
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