Nigerian officials were quoted by AP as saying that the oil cargo was exported illegally to the United States during the period under review.
Now, a federal high court in Lagos is set to kick off hearings next week in cases filed against Nigerian subsidiaries of U.S. multinational Chevron, British-Dutch Shell, Italian ENI’s Agip, France’s Total and Brasoil of Brazilian Petrobas.
Federal government’s case is being presented by law professor Fabian Ajogwu in the case against Chevron, which comes up first on Friday, September 30.
AP reports that officials familiar with the cases, speaking on anonymity, said federal government has accused the companies of failing to declare more than 57 million barrels of crude oil shipments. This number, they say, “was deduced from audits of declared exports and what was unloaded in the United States.”
Some of the illegalities that took place included shiploads registering less when they left Nigeria and more on reaching the United States and some entire shiploads going totally undeclared in Nigeria.
Federal government’s case is being presented by law professor Fabian Ajogwu in the case against Chevron, which comes up first on Friday, September 30.
AP reports that officials familiar with the cases, speaking on anonymity, said federal government has accused the companies of failing to declare more than 57 million barrels of crude oil shipments. This number, they say, “was deduced from audits of declared exports and what was unloaded in the United States.”
Some of the illegalities that took place included shiploads registering less when they left Nigeria and more on reaching the United States and some entire shiploads going totally undeclared in Nigeria.
AP reports that Michael Kanko confirmed that his US-based ImportGenius database was used by attorneys to confirm declarations made to U.S. customs by shippers and importers.
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