{"id":75057,"date":"2020-07-26T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75057"},"modified":"2020-07-26T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:37:56","slug":"americo-mexican-firm-demands-125million-from-2-5billion-nigerian-crude-illegally-sold-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/americo-mexican-firm-demands-125million-from-2-5billion-nigerian-crude-illegally-sold-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Americo-Mexican Firm Demands $125Million From $2.5billion Nigerian Crude Illegally Sold In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-53838455916514851\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">An Americo-Mexican oil and gas company, SAMANO AS, has threatened the NNPC with court action if it fails to pay 5% as whistleblower compensation after it exposed a deal by corrupt officials to sell 48 million barrels of Nigeria&#8217;s crude oil in the black market in China.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<p>Pointblanknews.com had exclusively reported recently how the company had found stolen crude from Nigeria stored\u00a0in Qingdao, Zhoushan, and Rizhao, both in China and secretly sold by members of President Mohammadu Buhari\u2019s Government and the proceed shared amongst them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter from its attorneys to the GMD of the NNPC, the firm, SAMANO SA DE CV, threatened legal redress if the payment is not made in line with the administrations&#8217; whistleblower policy contained in an Executive Order by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The letter said &#8221; Sometime in 2015, our client was approached by a group in China with the intent to sell 48 million barrels of Bonny Light Crude oil, believed to have been stored in various ports and terminals in China. It was revealed to our client that the NNPC authorized certain companies to sell the stolen product in China&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the oil and gas firm, the shady deal was reported to the MD of NNPC, Mele Kyari, the late chief of staff of the President, Abba Kyari, and one Umar Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com has received audio, pictures and more documents exposing the shady deal and would be releasing them once our editors are done verifying them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>See attached letter to the GMD NNPC copied to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and others.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Whistle-Blower-Letter-to-NNPC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whistle Blower Letter to NNPC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Americo-Mexican oil and gas company, SAMANO AS, has threatened the NNPC with court action if it fails to pay 5% as whistleblower compensation after it exposed a deal by&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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