Investigations

In 2001, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani lost his Florida home to foreclosure after falling behind on his mortgage payments. After becoming governor of Nigeria’s Enugu State, his family’s real estate holdings grew dramatically. During and after his tenure, Nnamani and his relatives acquired at least nine properties in Florida and Virginia, worth several million dollars. Long …

Notarial documents obtained by PPLAAF, based on information provided by a whistleblower, reveal that in 2017, Prisca Roseline Passet Mamadou, the wife of the current Chief of Staff of the Central African Armed Forces and now a recently elected member of parliament, purchased an apartment of nearly 110 square meters in Suresnes, outside Paris, for…

In 2017, the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (“PPLAAF“) was approached by whistleblowers who participated in the negotiations between the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC“) and the global port operator Dubai Ports World (“DPW“) regarding the construction in the city of Banana of DRC’s largest deep-water port to date. Having doubts…

PPLAAF and its partners have uncovered two previously unknown properties in the United States linked to a Nigerian official and his family, who are currently on trial for allegedly diverting funds meant for organising national examinations. Read more

Inside the Maina Case: Tracing Nigerian Pension Reform Money to Real Estate in the US and Dubai A new investigation identifies real estate assets in the United States and Dubai linked to Abdulrasheed Maina, former Nigerian official and lead of a Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, who was convicted for money laundering in 2021.…

The Troubled Waters of the DRC’s Mangrove Marine Park: An Investigation into an Endangered Ecosystem By Sonia Rolley (PPLAAF) and Josephine Moulds (TBIJ) In an investigation conducted by the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Kim Rebholz, former director of the Mangrove Marine Park in the Democratic…