Panama Papers: Danjuma linked to global offshore companies, secret accounts


·                                 Law firm threatens legal action over leak of information
A day after retired Army general and ex-Senate Presi­dent David Mark was named in the Panama Papers report, revealing that he has illegal offshore accounts, another re­tired Army general and former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, has been linked to offshore assets.
According to the report, Danjuma owns a company, Eastcoast Investment Inc, which he incorporated in Nas­sau, in the Bahamas, on March 25, 1997.
Also mentioned in the pa­pers is Enrico Monfrini, a Swiss attorney hired by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to track missing General Sani Abacha loot in Swiss banks. Monfrini operates over 178 companies in offshore tax ha­vens.
The mention of Danjuma’s name came just as Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the centre of the huge leak of confidential financial data, said it was a victim of hack and therefore consider­ing legal action against those who released the information.
Danjuma was still in ser­vice as Chief of Army Staff at the time the company was incorporated. At inception, Danjuma and a certain Colin Marcel Dixon were directors of the company. He was also director of Zara Logistics, a company registered in Cyprus on September 2, 1993.
Reports said Danjuma formed the company to enable him to do business with Scan­cem International of Norway when the later decided to ex­pand its involvement in Africa to include a project in Nigeria.
“But the company soon became embroiled in a messy bribery scandal, with Scan­cem, according to court pa­pers, later buying out East­coast Investment from the project on December 1, 2003.
“It was later determined, “the money went mainly to another account Eastcoast Investment had, to General T.Y. Danjuma and a certain The Volta Company.” As the controversy raged, Danjuma resigned as director of the company, but no document was sighted indicating that he transferred his shareholding to anyone.
Continuing, the reports said a certain Satish Chan­der Dosaj, who later died, re­placed Danjuma. On his death, Elizabeth Dixon, believed to be Dixon’s wife, was brought in as director. But even before incorporating Eastcoast to do business with Scancem, Dan­juma had used several offshore entities in the past, mostly reg­istered in tax havens.
The database, Opencorpo­rates, indicate that Danjuma served as director and vice-president of Cross Group Holdings International, which was registered in Panama on October 15, 1976. He was also director of Zara Logistics, a company registered in Cyprus on September 2, 1993.




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