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Nigerian Groups Denounce Proposed Shell Share Sale that Would Be Undertaken without a Full Cleanup
Move Would Allow Company to "Leave Devastation Behind and Walk Away without Consequence"
HOMEF, Social Action Nigeria, HEDA Resource Centre and Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre

16 December 2024

A proposed sale of Shell’s shares in the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to the Renaissance consortium, alongside similar divestments by TotalEnergies and other oil companies, threatens the environmental and social well-being of the Niger Delta and its people for generations to come, warned a letter from Nigerian groups released on 16 December 2024.

file iconURGENT CALL TO HALT ALL DIVESTMENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA

Acquittal of Shell and Eni in CorruptionTrial a "Stain on Italy”
Joint Statement on the Shell/Eni Verdict from Global Witness, The Corner House, HEDA and Re:Common

18 March 2021

Environmental and social justice groups have condemned Italy’s anti-corruption laws as unfit for purpose following the acquittal of oil multinationals Shell and Eni on international corruption charges in Milan. Thirteen other defendants were also found not guilty.

UK Supreme Court Rules that Nigerian Communities can Sue Shell in the UK

Landmark Judgment in Case of Okpabi and Others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDS) and Another

25 February 2021

On Friday 12 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal was wrong to refuse villagers from the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta permission to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in London for damages allegedly caused by numerous oil spills from Shell oil pipelines.

The Appeal Court had previously ruled that the English courts have no jurisdiction to hear the case because RDS was found not to exercise control over its Nigerian subsidiaries.

file iconThe Corner House's written intervention in the case of Okpabi v. Shell

Withdraw Defamatory Fraud Allegations or Face Legal Action, UK Group Tells Former Nigerian Attorney General's Lawyer

23 April 2021

The UK anti-corruption group Corner House has threatened legal action in response to a widely publicised Complaint sent on behalf of former Attorney General Mr Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN to Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police.

Adoke’s Complaint alleges “various acts of forgery” by “the parties responsible for the petition, investigations and commencement of the criminal trial at the court of Milan against the individuals/entities connected with the OPL 245 settlement agreement”.

file iconCORNER HOUSE STATEMENT

The World Bank, Red Flags and the Looting of Nigeria's Oil Revenues
Nicholas Hildyard

20 October 2018

The World Bank has invested almost a quarter of a billion dollars in Seven Energy, an oil and gas company operating in Nigeria. Months before the first investment was made, the then Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank alleged that the company's flagship contract involved operating a scheme that was looting billions of dollars in state revenues. A number of the people associated with the contract are now either on the run or charged with money laundering.

Secrecy order lifted on legal challenge to corrupt Nigerian oil deal (OPL 245)
UK's Crown Prosecution Service accused of failing to freeze corruptly obtained assets

7 November 2014

The High Court has lifted a secrecy order imposed on a 2013 legal challenge by The Corner House of a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to freeze some $215 million in alleged proceeds of crime from a corrupt Nigerian oil deal.

file iconPress release
file iconWitness statement
file iconGrounds for judicial review
file iconJudgment

DfID investments in alleged money-laundering fronts
BBC Newsnight reports
Peter Marshall, Newsnight

7 July 2014

BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, ran a 10-minute segment on allegations that Britain’s Department of International Development (DfID), through its wholly-owned private equity fund of funds CDC Group, invested in money-laundering fronts for James Ibori, the ex-governor of Nigeria’ oil-rich Delta State, who has been serving a prison sentence in the UK since 2012.

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Whistleblower charges UK development agencies with gross maladminstration

Complaint submitted to UK Parliamentary Ombudsman

8 May 2012

Nigerian anti-corruption whistleblower Dotun Oloko today accused  Britain’s Department of International Development (DfID) and its private sector arm, the CDC Group, of jeopardising criminal investigations into potential wrongdoing by two CDC-backed private equity funds, Emerging Capital Partners and Ethos.

In 2009, Mr Oloko supplied DfID with detailed information on investments by the two funds in companies alleged to have acted as money laundering fronts for James Ibori, the former Nigerian state governor who was sentenced last month for money laundering and fraud.

UK Development Fund Implicated in Money-Laundering Investigation

16 April 2012

Campaigners slam government’s development approach as DfID-backed private equity fund comes under criminal investigation in Nigeria

file iconDfID-CDC-Ibori press release

The Future of CDC
International Development Committee inquiry
The Corner House and Jubilee Debt

23 November 2010

This submission makes detailed comparisons between CDC (the Development Finance Institution [DFI] wholly owned by the UK’s Department for International Development [DfID]) and the DFIs of Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, European Union and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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Inquiry into the 2009-2010 annual report and account of the UK's Department for International Development
Memorandum on CDC
The Corner House and Dotun Oloko

13 September 2010

This submission to a UK Parliamentary Inquiry into the Department for International Development (DfID) focuses on the support given by a DfID owned fund management business, CDC, to private equity funds and concerns over alleged corruption in several investments made by CDC-backed funds in Nigeria.

file iconSubmission
file iconAnnex

Concerns over alleged corruption in CDC-backed companies in Nigeria
Memorandum to Secretary of State for International Development

28 June 2010

This Memorandum raises questions about the due diligence conducted by CDC, a company owned by the UK Government, in its dealings with two private equity firms that have invested in Nigerian companies. These companies are reported to be “fronts” for the alleged laundering of money said to have been obtained corruptly by the former Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta State.

file iconCDC Memorandum
file iconAnnex US forfeiture
file iconDfID response