Former President Olusegun Obasanjo alongside members of the trustees of his Foundation have sacked the London-based Chief Executive Officer of the organization, Anne Welsh, following a leaked video allegedly showing her negotiating with some purported Labenese businessmen to aid money laundering.
The video footage, which was obtained by SaharaReporters was said to have been clandestinely filmed by one of the participants at a United Kingdon meeting in December 2014.
Welsh allegedly plotted a $4.9m (N980m) scheme to exploit the Ebola Virus Disease tragedy in West Africa through helping a group of ‘Lebanese businessmen’ who wished to donate money to Obasanjo Foundation for some work in Sierra Leone.
The group proposed a donation of $2m (N400m) to the foundation if it helped it launder the balance of $2.9m.
Welch boasted in the video saying, “I had to go through training, through president Obasanjo, political training for one year to become discreet”.
“Sometimes, we get dollars from people who give money to our foundation and they say they don’t want it to be known that they donated the money, but they want to have a letter on our letterhead paper and a letter from Obasanjo just to say ‘Thank you for your kind donations to the foundation for the work to support Ebola’. That’s it. That is what we normally do”, she added.
Obasanjo while confirming the development was reported to have said the British security agencies had been briefed for necessary action and probe.
