A Nigerian activist, Kio Amachree, President of Worldview International, says he has formally petitioned INTERPOL’s Secretary General over alleged money laundering by Seyi Tinubu, the son of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, escalating what he describes as a months-long international campaign against the administration.
Kio Amachree, who identifies himself as President of Worldview International and goes by the handle “Mayor of Calabar” on social media, announced in a lengthy post on Wednesday.
He wrote: “I have formally written to the Secretary General of INTERPOL in Lyon, France, Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza, with copies simultaneously served on the Director General of the UK National Crime Agency, the Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office, the Head of Sanctions at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Sweden’s SAPO.”
At the centre of the allegations is a £9 million London mansion in St. John’s Wood, which Amachree claims was purchased through a British Virgin Islands shell company called Aranda Overseas Corporation.
He alleges the property was acquired “at the precise moment” it was under active Nigerian government confiscation proceedings as proceeds of a $1.6 billion fraud, claims he says were documented by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in May 2023.
Seyi Tinubu, or Mr President, has not publicly responded to the allegations.
Amachree says he has also written open letters to U.S. President Donald Trump, King Charles, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the UN Secretary-General, and has filed complaints with the FBI, the DEA, the UK Serious Fraud Office, MI5, and Sweden’s SAPO.
In his post, Amachree invoked the UK’s Unexplained Wealth Order mechanism. This legal tool allows the National Crime Agency to compel individuals to account for assets that appear disproportionate to their known income.
He pointed to its prior use against the wife of a corrupt Azerbaijani banker and against Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, whose assets were frozen in London’s High Court.
“If he cannot explain it and he has never even tried, publicly, the property is presumed to be recoverable criminal proceeds and can be seized. No criminal conviction required,” Amachree wrote. “The burden of proof shifts to him.”
On the prospect of an INTERPOL Red Notice, Amachree was direct: “It means that if Seyi Tinubu lands at any airport in Europe, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Stockholm, he can be detained on the spot by local law enforcement pending extradition proceedings.”
Amachree also referenced the 1993 U.S. asset forfeiture connected to President Bola Tinubu himself over narcotics trafficking proceeds, and the 1994 Swiss money laundering conviction of Gilbert Chagoury, a businessman long linked to the Tinubu political network.
Addressing ordinary Nigerians directly, Amachree framed his campaign in stark terms. “While you are paying ₦1,500 for a litre of fuel. While your hospitals have no drugs. While your currency has lost half its value,” he wrote, “Seyi Tinubu’s shell company was buying a three-floor mansion in St. John’s Wood with an eight-car driveway, electric gates, two gardens, and a gym.”
He closed with a pointed declaration: “I am not writing articles anymore. I am filing. There is a difference.” #Securitynewsalert.com
