Buhari Writes UK’s Serious Fraud Office Asking Them To Probe How Saraki, Ekweremadu Acquired £15million, And £4m London Homes
The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), SaharaReporters has learned, is on the verge on launching an investigation below the Unexplained Wealth Order into how the Messrs after receiving a letter from the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, President and Deputy President of the Senate respectively, acquired expensive landed homes within the United Kingdom.
Mr. Saraki, at various times governor of Kwara State and Special Assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, is the owner of two London houses worth approximately £15million. Sources at the SFO informed SaharaReporters that his properties to be investigated are located at No. 7 and 8 Whittaker Street, Belgravia, London.
Mr.Ekweremadu, a former Secretary to the Government and Chief of Staff to the governor of Enugu state. The Senator received two homes worth £4m in London through fronts.
The residences are Flat 4 Varsity Court, Homer Street, WIH, 4NW London and 52 Ayleston Avenue NW6 7AB, London. SFO resources stated there is a critical curiosity in the company that Mr. Ike Ekweremadu acquired Flat 4, Varsity Court, Homer Street, WIH 4NW, London, under the guise of Ikeoha Foundation, which is registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission as a charity. The property is well worth £830, 000.
The Deputy Senate President received the second one belongings the usage of a shell enterprise, Property Circle Ltd Incorporated, which become incorporated within the British Virgin Islands. The belongings is worth £2.9million.
SaharaReporters gathered from SFO operatives that another assets in the Varsity Court, purportedly owned by using C & V Management Company Ltd and 44 Homer Street purportedly owned by using SJW Estates Ltd, incorporated in Jersey, can also be investigated. The value of the assets is £18.5million.
In addition to Messrs. Saraki and Ekweremadu, Mr. Bassey Albert Akpan, a senator, is likewise to be investigated via the SFO. Mr. Akpan, a former Akwa Ibom State Finance Commissioner, disclosed in his assets announcement form dated August 8, 2015, that he owns has some of landed properties in London. SFO resources said the Mr. Akpan claimed to have obtained the houses through Barclays Bank of London-financed mortgage totaling £1million.
“The SFO will look into the situations below which Senator Bassey Albert Akpan acquired a majority of these landed homes in the United Kingdom. The instances are suspicious, contemplating that for the beyond 10 years, he has continually been a public officer and his valid profits are a ways underneath the well worth of the assets he has received in the United Kingdom,” said an SFO source.
The SFO supply stated they have acquired encouraging cooperation from the Buhari regime explaining that the aforementioned politicians could not have afforded the residences through lawful way, the regime in a letter to the SFO unique their salaries and emoluments in addition to revealing that they did no longer declare the assets as required by way of law.