African Academic Network on Internet Policy has requested that the National Assembly inserts the following in data protection framework or bill, “the use of personal data must be in accordance with the purpose for which it was collected, consent of the individual must be obtained prior to collecting his/her personal data; rights of the individual […]

A probe’s been launched after Addax, owned by the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, paid £20 million for legal advisers in 2015. Auditor Deloitte says the payments from Manx and Nigerian accounts may have been siphoned off to government officials in Africa. It says it’s had whistle-blowing allegations from Addax staff claiming some of the […]

Raj Bhojwani, convicted of laundering £28m from a business deal with an ex-Nigerian dictator has lost his final appeal. Raj Bhojwani, from India, was jailed in 2010 and ordered to repay £26.5m after he funnelled money through Jersey and Swiss bank accounts. The European Court of Human Rights rejected his complaint on Tuesday that he […]

Reformers in Nigeria have pleaded with David Cameron to prevent corrupt officials from laundering stolen money through Britain’s property market, private schools and upmarket shops. In a stinging letter to the prime minister before his global anti-corruption summit in London, representatives of 95 reform groups have told him that he must get Britain’s house in […]