Reports surfaced last week that a judge in Montreal granted a court order to seize a Bombardier jet alleged to have been purchased by former Nigerian Oil Minister Dan Etete, who was connected to the Malabu OPL 245 oil deal/scandal. Lawyers acting on behalf of the Nigerian government are pursuing litigation in several countries seeking to recover north of $1 billion misappropriated from the government.
The owner of the plane is a company called Tibit Ltd., which is registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The sole director of Tibit is believed to be a woman named Giuseppina Russa of J. Russa Consultants, a company operating in Montreal. Russa, however, denies she still operates as a director of the company, claiming to have asked for removal from the position several years ago.
