On Thursday, a video of Anne Welsh, the CEO of the Obasanjo Foundation in London, obtained by SaharaReporters, showed her boasting that she has operated a well-oiled money-laundering scheme for many years.
The video, discreetly shot by one of the participants in the meeting in the United Kingdom in December 2014, reveals that Ms. Welsh was involved in a $4.9 million scheme to exploit the Ebola Virus Disease tragedy in West Africa through helping a group of ‘Lebanese businessmen’ who wished to donate money to the Obasanjo Foundation for some work in Sierra Leone.
The group explains that it would make the donation on one condition: the Obasanjo Foundation would get $2m, as long as it helps launder the balance of $2.9m.
Ms. Welsh also makes a shocking accusation: she says she learnt the art from former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I had to go through training through President Obasanjo, political training for one year to become discreet,” she says.
“Sometimes we get dollars from people who give money to our foundation and they say they don’t want it to be known that they donated the money but they want to have a letter on like our letter-headed paper and a letter from Obasanjo stating just to say ‘Thank you for your kind donations to the foundation for the work to support Ebola’. That’s it. That is what we normally do.”
For details, watch the video below
On Friday, it was reported that the Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation fired Ms. Welsh over the revelations that emerged on the video.
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