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From: "Prof. Charles Soludo" <profcharlescsoludo_privatemail@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM CBN GOVERNOR.
Attn: Amarjit Singh,
I am Prof. Charles C. Soludo, Executive Governor.Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
I received instructions from the Senate Committee on Foreign Payments and the Presidency, to re-investigate all Foriegn contract claims, Inherittance claims and all monitary transaction that originates from Nigeria between1990-2006. This instruction reached my office on Tuesday, 4th July, 2006.
Between then and this time, I have searched every available record on awarded contracts dating from1990, but found no evidence to show that your claim
was genuine, neither was any contract awarded to you by the NNPC nor any contract executed by you or your company. or any inherittance in your name as the NEXT OF KIN. No one is aware of this fact yet as I have neither mentioned it to anyone nor submitted my report to the senate committee or the Presidency.
In respect of the above however, I have been able to establish from every available evidence that your case is one of those many attempts by public servants here try to
move floating public funds through the assistance of a foreigner. In my line of work and investigations, I come accross several such cases from time to time.
What usually happens is that these individuals connive with junior staff of the NNPC, the CBN,the Federal Ministry of Finance, and some other commercial banks here.
Such staff use official documents and impersonate senior staff in writing to the foreigner who is the would-be beneficiary to the payment, to create the impression that
he/she is dealing with genuine authorities. The real senior staff of these establishments especially in the CBN and or in the Commercial banks,do not usually know what is going on. What happens is that these junior staff of the bank begin to make incessant requests for payments which they claim are bank or statutory charges, from the foreigner. This way, they mislead the unsuspecting foreigner, unknown to him that he is not dealing with the right persons (authorities).
At times, when it becomes obvious to those government officials that the plan might not work, they connive with these junior staff to continue defrauding the foreigner.
What these foreigners do not know is that the Central Bank does not charge any upfront payment before releasing a contract claim The only payment that is mandatorily required of all genuine contractors prior to the release
of any contract payment is the 0.1% Forex Allocation/Telegraphic Transfer Application charge, which is payable to the Finance Ministry, and not the CBN before approval for
the release of any contract payment can be given by the Ministry to the CBN.
Finally, when the foreigner knows the truth, they usually petition our government or the CBN direct. This is when the real authorities of the bank become aware and
subsequently call for an investigation. If this investigation takes place, it will be found that the foreigner never executed the contract and the payment will
be voided! Right now, the real authorities of this CBN and or the commercial bank are aware of your claim because the originators have carefully authenticated the documentation to make it look genuine and all the authorities here need
is to make payment to you if confirmation comes from my office that you actually executed this contract or that you inheritted any fund in Nigeria.
NOTE: You must understand that no money can be transferred out of Nigeria without my approval because CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA is the mother of all the banks in Nigeria and I am the Governor. But I have decided to contact you before writing my report. However, after careful thought, I concluded that if you can accept to write a letter to the bank requesting them to wire the payment to two bank accounts: 50% to your account; and 50% to an account which I shall forward to you after we have reached an accord, I would then go ahead and write a positive recommendation
for the payment to be released to you. I do not want you to give me any money upfront, No!
NOTE, It is not just a question of writing this recommendation. I would have to prepare certain evidence that would give you the status of a true contractor with my corporation, and which will also show that you executed this contract in question, in the stated year. This will not take more than 1 day to accomplish. It is just a
question of fixing your name/ company name in various past records. Not that such
evidence will be called for after I have submitted my report to the committee but I like to be meticulous in whatever I do.
If you accept the above-stated condition, in addition to the following conditions, I will write a positive recommendation and request the Foreign remittance Director
to release payment to your account immediately. The payment will be made from the NNPC account with the CBN so the instruction from the NNPC will be final once it is clear that you actually executed the contract!
The conditions are as follows:
1. You will not let anyone both here in Nigeria and outside know about my involvement in this plan; no matter who.
2. You will claim in the letter to the bank that your decision to split the payment into two accounts is based on your agreement with the company which financed the project in the past, and that they want their own payment of the contract paid direct to their own account. This account I shall provide at a later correspondence,
On acceptance of these terms, I will go ahead and write my report in which I will claim, with relevant evidence that you actually executed this contract. After I have done this, you can be assured that the authrotities will release the payment within a space of six working days at the very worst. This is no idle boast, I know what I am
talking about. For you, I believe it will be a glorious end to something that had become some sort of nightmare. For me, it will be a divine opportunity, as I had never
thought of such before when I foiled several such attempts in the past. My only concern is that no one should know aboutmy involvement in this, now or later, please!]
I await your response as a matter of urgency, to enable me submit my report at the stated time and the final processing takes place to enable the Foriegn remittance director effect the release of the fund to the two accounts.
Re-confirm your bank account information.
Sincerely,
Prof. Charles C. Soludo
Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).
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