The last two general elections in Nigeria received support from oil traders, including Glencore and BP, who paid middlemen to help get contract awards from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , according to current litigations in London as well as New York, Bloomberg reported Friday.confessing the London-based energy’s firm’s part in the scheme
, said this week the fashion in which the NNPC conducted cargo allotments might have helped plans for the last national polls of 2019. “We were paying agents in Nigeria huge multiples of what we paid in other regions even though those agents did not perform services of any real value to BP. Our proposed reasons for paying the agent these sums were a sham,” he was quoted as saying.
In July, a former staff of Glencore, an Anglo-Swiss multinational trading house, acknowledged giving an agent $300,000 intended to obtain an oil consignment from the state-owned corporation with the knowledge it would go to funding a general election that held in Nigeria six years ago.
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