From: "PEDRO OBASEKI" <obasekii@unistra.fr>
Reply-To: pedro.obasekii@mynet.com
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:32:21 -0700
Subject: Business Relationship

Dear Friend,

I write you now, knowing that we can both work together based on the trust I have in you.

I am the Project Director of DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES [DPR] a parastatal company under the NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY [NNPC]. This company supervises the multinational oil companies operating in my country Nigeria. These multinational oil companies form a cartel that collaborates to fleece the nation. This began right from the first signing of the joint venture and petroleum sharing contracts, between government and this big oil companies. This joint venture was known to be a fraud.

We are in this joint venture partnership with government owning 60% equity share and the other companies having the remaining 40%. This agreement also includes profit per barrel produce, pricing per barrel and investment on every barrel produce. Unfortunately government had no way of monitoring to confirm the figures given by these oil companies. It was as a result of this, that the present democratically elected president of the country decided to revoke the oil allocations by past governments to the multinational oil companies. A committee on petroleum resources that was set up by the senate and the presidency, summoned me and the joint venture partners in the nation’s oil and gas industry to justify the 54 billion naira about [$367,346, 983 million] allocated to the oil companies in the 2004 Appropriation Bill under the integrity sub-head.

The Joint venture Partners were unprepared for the revelation that followed this enquiry. In fact, one of the Joint venture partners, Pan Oceanoil company confounded the committee members by disclaiming the $810 million allocated to it under the sub-head. It claimed that it did not need the money as there was nothing to repair in its flow station since its equipment’s were still new.

The revelation confirmed the suspicion of many people that the upstream sector of the nation’s oil industry has become a nest of corruption. The submissions by Pan Ocean Oil Company raise several questions. It also goes to prove the allegations made against the joint operators of always duplicating expenditure items for the Joint Venture and submitting a single work programme for JV and PSC concessions instead of separating them.

It is this money and some other that are returned unaccounted for that I want you to help receive into your custody. We will initially transfer the sum of $15.5 million (Fifteen million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to you. If this is adequately handled, then we will negotiate on how to transfer the rest. Plans have been perfected to remit these funds to you immediately you indicate interest that you can help to accommodate the said amount. What we intend doing is to use our diplomatic connections to move the funds to your country. With the services of an accredited financial organization in your country, you would receive the funds without having to travel.

If you are interested in proceeding as you indicated in our discussion earlier today, please supply the following information

-your full names
-your contact address
-your phone and fax numbers

You should let me know what you intend to receive as your commission in your response to this mail.

Best regards.

PEDRO OBASEKI.
Email; pedro.obasekii@mynet.com