Nigeria’s current Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah was on Tuesday linked to a $13.9 billion money laundering scheme by MTN.
The allegation was made by the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye during a plenary session.
“The senate notes with serious concern the illegal repatriation of $13.92bn out of Nigeria by Mobile Telecommunication company, MTN through its bankers between 2006 and 2016,” Melaye said.
The Senator expressed concerns that since inception, MTN had sought the collaboration of influential and unpatriotic Nigerians to assist them in looting the country’s external reserves.
He said he was pained that the unscrupulous Nigerians employedby the Telco includes a serving minister who MTN used in moving $13.92bn out of Nigeria.
He noted that the amount is over 50 percent of the country’s external reserves floated and incorporated offshore in Cayman Island, Mauritius and British Virgin Island.
“The minister of industry, trade and investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, owner of CELTELCOM Investment Limited with address at No 608, St James, Denis Street Port-Lewis Mauritius purportedly claimed to invest in MTN on 7th February 2008, got a certificate of capital importation and filled “form A” on the same date, then closed his investment in Nigeria after receiving dollar payment for repatriation to New York same day,” he revealed.
