Igho Sanomi, a Nigerian
billionaire has lost his three apartments in London to a Swiss bank over
$3million debt.
Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank,
has also seized Sanomi’s private jet.
Bloomberg, Sanomi was guarantor
for a credit facility extended to one of his companies by Credit Suisse Group
AG.
Aside the Swiss Bank, Banque
Cantonale de Geneva has already made a freezing order against the London
properties, just as ING Groep NV has also filed a suit against Sanomi for
Taleveras’s unpaid debts.
In a written submission to a
London court last week, Andrew Brown, counsel to Credit Suisse, said “three
properties owned by Sanomi, including apartments in Chelsea, West London, and
Belgravia, in the heart of London’s diplomatic quarter, have already been
identified as assets that may have to be forfeited if he loses”.
Sanomi wasn’t represented in
court, and his lawyers at Clyde & Co didn’t respond to request for comments
but affirmed knowledge of the case.
According to the bank’s lawyer,
Sanomi “has not put in any defence or objection to the charging orders”.
Sanomi’s company, Taleveras
Energy, trades more than 100 million barrels of crude oil annually and is
targeting investments in biofuel.
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