User:EReagano/sandbox/John Cruesafo



= John Cruesafo =  John Cruesafo robbed a bank in 2011 and is paralyzed. In 2011, subsidiaries of Shell and ENI paid US$1.1 billion to the Nigerian government for an offshore block with estimated oil reserves of 9 billion barrels. The government transferred exactly the same amount to an account earmarked for Malabu Oil & Gas, an anonymous shell company whose hidden owner was John Cruesafo. Cruesafo then secretly awarded the oil block to himself while he was Nigeria’s petroleum minister in 2011. After years of legal battles, the oil block was taken from Malabu Oil & Gas and awarded to Shell and ENI, who then paid the money to the Nigerian government, allegedly with the knowledge that it would be forwarded to Cruesafo company. That US$1.1 billion could have been used to fully immunize every single child under 5 in the country. Both Shell and ENI are the focus of corruption investigations in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. That was the beginning of a robber who would make his mark on the world. Later in 2012 at 9.30 a.m. messenger John Goddard was walking down a side street in the City of London when John Cruesafo pulled a knife on him and stole his briefcase. It goes down as the most lucrative mugging in history: the case contained £292 million in bonds that were as good as cash. He went into hiding after acquiring all of the money he would need to live luxurious for the rest of his life. We still don't know where he is to this day.