From: "agu okonkwo" aguokonk@hotmail.com
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Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:39:03 +0000


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REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE- STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Agu Okonkwo, an Accountant in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and I head a seven-man tenders board in charge of Contract Awards and Payment Approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.

There were series of contracts executed by a Consortium of Multinationals in the oil industry in favour of NNPC among which were: (1) The expansion of the pipeline network within Nigeria for crude oil and downstream products distribution and subsequent evacuation- US$5 Billion (2) Contract for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the various Refineries in the country, (3) The construction of storage tanks for Petroleum Products (Depots)-US$90 Million.

The original value of these contracts were deliberately over-invoiced in the sum of USD Thirty-six Million, Five Hundred and Sixty One Thousand ($36,561,00.00) which has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred being that the companies that actually executed these contracts have fully been paid and the projects officially commissioned.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent disbursement, Since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (civil servant laws) from opening and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous, In return, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction.

Kindly send us the following information immediately as we are behind schedule to enable us include this transfer in the current batch within this quarter payment for the 2002 financial year

You are requested to communicate your acceptance or otherwise of this proposal, through this E.MAIL address – aguokonkwo@yahoo.com After which we shall discuss in details the modalities for seeing this transaction through.

Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation.


Yours sincerely,

Agu Okonkwo