A Mansion, a Shell Company and Resentment in Bel Air

[Ikhide]

"The house is owned by a shell company, Inch & Meter Ltd., whose corporate filings trace to the family of Gilbert R. Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian businessman who was a close associate of Sani Abacha, the general who ruled Nigeria with a fierce grip in the 1990s. Mr. Abacha is believed to have stolen $4 billion from public coffers, which is the focus of a long-running international recovery effort.

In 2000, Mr. Chagoury was convicted of money laundering in Switzerland in connection with the Abacha family, court records show. He paid a fine, and in 2010 the PBS program “Frontline” reported that his record was expunged. Mr. Chagoury’s lawyer acknowledged that Mr. Chagoury had helped Mr. Abacha’s sons open bank accounts at Credit Suisse."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/shell-company-bel-air-mansion.html?emc=eta1&_r=0


- Ikhide

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Chagoury could not have done to the Lebanon, what he did to Nigeria. Could a Nigerian have done to the Lebanon what Chagoury did to Nigeria and get away with it? That is the question.

oa

Sent from my iPhone

> --
> Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
> To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
> To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
> Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
> Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Mobolaji Aluko]

oa:

Chagoury - or most Chagourys - are Nigerian, albeit Lebanese-Nigerian.  Your properly-posed question should have been "Could a Nigerian-Lebanese have done to (the) Lebanon what Chagoury did to Nigeria and get away with it?", and the answer is "Possibly....after all, many Lebanese have gotten away with corruption in Lebanon."

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

ma, 

What is your point? Do you know of a Nigerian who has stolen from the Lebanon, as much as Chagoury has stolen from Nigeria over many years with the connivance of highly placed Nigerian public officials including Heads of State? Why is it difficult for you participate in a conversation in proper context? Do you know that the Lebanon has a

Nigerian who has done to that country,  what Chagoury has done to Nigeria and got away with it? 

Do you not see the evident contrast there is, in the leaders and people of both countries in their love and safe guarding of their countries' national interest? Why defend the indefensible to make a cheap point? Where is the good sense, merit, or valor, in doing it? I ask in wonder.

oa

Sent from my iPhone

[Mobolaji Aluko]

oa:

Thou dost protest too much... Your own questioning line was vacuous, so I threw one back at you.

One-one.....a draw.

So let us move on....and leave Lebanon out of the issue.  Sufficient onto the day is the evil in Nigeria thereof.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head