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