The world’s leading audit and tax consulting firm, Deloitte US has said it has no employment records for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is running to be president of Nigeria in 2023.
The firm stated this in a letter dated September 20, 2022, and signed by Senior Legal Specialist, Tish Negron, in response to a subpoena for records initiated by a private detective and investigating firm, Robert G, Hanrahan Investigations, LLC.
Tinubu has claimed in well-documented interviews that he made $1.8 million, becoming an “instant millionaire”, while working with Deloitte and Touche in the United States.
In an interview with TheNews Magazine on March 29, 2016, as reported by Premium Times, Tinubu said, “At Deloitte and Touche, I chose to travel more than 80 per cent of my working years there. And that is because if a staff chose to travel, he would make more money because he would get travel allowances.”
He added, “We had gone there to set up their accounting and auditing system. It was while on that service that I got my financial break. When I returned to the United States, my employers gave me a huge bonus, which instantly turned me into a millionaire.
“The bonus was $850,000, before taxes. My salaries were also being paid into the bank and I was not touching them. At the time, my salary deposits in the bank had risen to about $1.8 million.”
Award-winning Nigerian journalist, David Hundeyin, who has written copiously about Tinubu’s alleged criminal past, shared a copy of the subpoena for records into Tinubu’s employment record with the US-based firm and the firm’s response.
He tweeted, “Bola Ahmed Tinubu has claimed that he made $1.8 million from salaries and bonuses while working a consultancy job at Deloitte USA.
“So we subpoenaed Deloitte USA to provide evidence of Tinubu’s employment and staff payment records, and this is what came back and there’s more.”
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He also shared a letter from Deloitte stating that Bola Ahmed Tinubu never worked for the firm.
