Brothers fighting fraud charges from India are flourishing in Nigeria

The Sandesaras built Nigeria’s biggest independent oil firm, but India has accused the pair of scamming its public banks.

06 June 2023 - 20:40 By William Clowes and Shruti Mahajan

At a ceremony in November, the Nigerian government celebrated the discovery of as many as 1-billion barrels of oil in the country’s arid northeast, almost 1,000km away from the crude-rich Niger Delta...

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