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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Nigerian Billionaire Kola Aluko Has Allegedly Sold His Bel-Air Mansion For $21.5 Million

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Kola Aluko, a controversial Nigerian oil tycoon, has sold his Bel-Air, Los Angeles mansion, as Nigerian and European authorities investigate him for a series of money-laundering and fraud-related crimes.

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 26:Jamie Foxx and Kola Aluko, co-CEO of Atlantic Energy and co-founder of the Made in Africa Foundation ring the NASDAQ opening bell kicking off the kick-off of the Africa50 Fund at NASDAQ MarketSite on September 26, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)


Kola Aluko sold the home last week for $21.5 million, taking a $3 million loss after purchasing the sprawling residence in 2012 for $24.5 million. Aluko, 46, apparently sold the residence in an off-market transaction using a limited-liability company. An off-market sale in real estate refers to a property that is sold without any form of public advertising. 


Aluko’s former home- a contemporary-style showplace in the 700 block of Sarbonne Road, Los Angeles, was designed by architect Paul McClean and built in 2011. The property sits on more than an acre, has a gated entrance, a subterranean garage and a 132-square-foot infinity-edge swimming pool among other features, according to The Los Angeles Times.

 For a long time, Aluko had been linked as a business associate of Nigeria’s former Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is also currently under investigation by Nigerian and British authorities for money laundering and embezzlement. Shortly after she became oil minister in 2010, Alison-Madueke awarded Atlantic Energy- an unknown start-up co-founded by Aluko, a very lucrative contract to fund NNPC’s (the state oil company) operational costs in four lucrative oil blocks in which the NNPC owned a stake. 


In return for providing funding to the NNPC, Atlantic Energy was to lift the crude produced from the oil blocks, sell it, and thereafter pay the state-owned oil firm its share of profits. But there is an allegation and considerable proof that Atlantic Energy did not make any upfront funding but lifted crude and that a huge chunk of the proceeds from the sale of the crude oil did not make it to NNPC’s coffers and, by extension, the Nigerian treasury.


Kola Aluko did not respond to an email request attempting to confirm the sale of his Bel-Air property.

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8 comments:

  1. Choi!...
    I'm sure his enemies will be happy to hear this...

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  2. See his teeth. Upon all the money he stole, he could not go and meet a good dentist to wash his teeth and makes it whiter than snow.

    Buhari and EFCC, collect the money he sold the house. that money should be in our coffer.

    Fear fear man. Mgbati gbati man

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  3. The kind of money this people call eeeh no be here!Y sell ur house if u no do anything no be small fear fear!

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  4. He's merely liquidating his assets with a view 2 hiding the money

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  5. Divesting the physical assets and melt it into gold and bearer bonds.

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