Aluko once rumoured to have dated Naomi Campbell, has partied with Leonardo DiCaprio, P Diddy, Jamie Foxx and owns over a hundred houses in 3 different continents
In September 2015, celebrity couple Beyonce and Jay Z reportedly paid $900,000 to sail across the Mediterranean on the Galactica Star, a 65 meter long luxury yacht, equipped with a helipad, 10 dining areas, a jacuzzi, and a sun deck.
The $72M yacht belongs to Kolawole Aluko, a petroleum and aviation mogul and key ally of former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Aluko who was once rumoured to be dating celebrity model Naomi Campbell, is accused of cheating Nigeria out of $1.8 billion from unpaid dues from crude oil sales.
An amount the government says “is equal to the combined 2016 budgets of about 4 States, and would be utilized to cater for about 13 million people”.
He is also accused of smuggling millions of dollars out of the country on behalf Diezani.
In a report published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) - Secret Documents Expose Nigerian Oil Mogul’s Offshore Hideaways, Aluko alongside some Nigerian oil executives, state governors, ministers, military officers and tribal chiefs are among those mentioned in the Panama Papers scandal, which include
Aluko gained sudden prominence after two of his companies were awarded oil blocks without bidding, even though one the companiesAtlantic Energy, was just a day old. This happened in 2011, just a year after Diezani was appointed petroleum minister by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
In March 2014, Earnshaw Associates one of Aluko’s companies, which was incorporated just three weeks after Alison-Madueke was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources, registered a Bombardier Global Express jet in Malta.
The 18-seater plane is the same model of aircraft that Diezani reportedly used during her time in office.
An order by the Lagos High Court granted the government the permission to freeze his assets which includes the 4 houses in California, properties in London, 2 penthouses in Manhattan, one penthouse in Dubai, 132 houses in Nigeria and land in both Canada andSwitzerland and also his yacht.
He is also said to have more than $67 million in four bank accounts in London and Switzerland, 58 cars, three airplanes and a bevy of wristwatches.
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