Petroleum {Special} Trust Fund
Contract Award Committee
Natioal Secretariat
Victoria Island
Lagos.
Attention: The President/CEO,
The petroleum special Trust Fund was set up by the late Head of
state,General Sani Abacha who died on 18th June,1998, to
manage the excess revenue accruing from the sale of petroleum and its
allied products as a result of a domestic increase in
the prices of petroleum products.
The estimated annual revenue for 1999 was $45 billion US Dollars Ref.FMF
A26 Unit 3B paragraph \\\"D\\\" of the Auditor General
of Federal Republic of Nigeria Report of Nov.1999 on estimated revenue.
I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee and my committee is
solely responsible for awarding and payment of
contracts on behalf of federal Government of Nigeria.
My Committee awarded contracts to foreign contractors for the supply of
Agricultural Machines Spare parts to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Natural Resources. We overshot the contract sum by USD35
Million. We have paid the contractors and
withholding the balance of USD35 Million.
Because of existing domestic laws forbiding civil servants from opening,
operating, and maintaining foreign accounts,we do not
have the expertise to transfer this balance of funds to a foreign account.
However, this balance of USD35 Million has been secured in form of
credit/payment to a foreign contractors .Hence,we wish to
transfer into your bank account as the beneficiary of the funds.
We have also arrived at a conclusion that you will be compensated to the
tune of 25% of the total sum transfer while 5% will be
reserved for incidental expenses that both parties will incur in the
course of actualizing this transaction and the balance of 70%
will be kept for the Committee members.
If you know you are capable of helping us actualizing our life\\\'s
dream,you should send to me immediately the details of your
bank particulars or open a new account where we can transfer the money
{USD35 Million} which you will be holding in trust for
us untill we come over there for our share.Your nature of business does
not matter in this transaction.
The required details include your personal Telephone/Fax
numbers,beneficiary\\\'s name, Name of Bank,Routing
number,Account number,Telephone/Fax numbers of same Bank.
Note: Note that this transaction will be concluded within 10 working days
from the day the required details are forwarded to us.
Please, treat this as top secret.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Ede Mark