20/01/2015
Two British businessmen arrested on suspicion of involvement in sale of naval vessels to Nigerian ...
Two British businessmen have been arrested on suspicion of bribing a Norwegian official alleged to be involved the controversial sale of six former naval vessels to a Nigerian private security company. A joint investigation by the City of London?s Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit (OACU) and their counterparts in Norway, Okokrim, examined how the former warships, including missile-torpedo boats (MTBs), ended up under the control of a former Niger Delta militant who now runs privatised national security contracts worth millions of dollars that have been authorised by the Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan. Detectives from the OACU arrested a man in his early 40s at his home in Alfreton,...
