Resumen biográfico
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From Left to Right: Haim Taib Managing Director of Mitrelli (HLSi); Eytan Stibbe founder of
Mitrelli; Minister of Transportation and President Buhari re-election campaign’s Director
General, Rotimi Amaechi & Nasiru Haladu Danu the chairman of Mitrlli's HLSI Systems &
Technology LTD and the Director of logistics of the Buhari campaign organization. President
Muhammadu Buhari and behind the President stands Nasiru Danu.
, 2017, Nigeria's Federal Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi
stunned his audience at an event to mark World Maritime Day, as he unveiled an extensive
deal at an estimated value of $195 million dollars with an Israeli company, in which he did not
name (later it was revealed that the company's name is HSLI Systems and Technology Ltd.).
Amaechi revealed that as a result of the deal, the unnamed company will gain complete
control over Nigeria's waterways for a period of three years. Meanwhile, the Israeli company
will provide training services to the Nigerian national security forces, and at the end of the
three years contract, the Nigerians will regain full control of the waterways from the unnamed
company. The agreement also consists of a supply of three helicopters, three aircraft, three
big battle-ready ships, 12 vessels, and 20 amphibious cars to secure Nigerian waters.
Minister Amaechi explained that the project would obviate the necessity for safekeeping and
escort of ships and vessels crossing Nigeria’s waterways. It should be taken into consideration
that Minister Amaechi is a partner and a confidant of the president, assisting him in obtaining
the president's approval for the deal. The contract was finally approved and signed by the
Federal Executive Council on October 2017.
The statement given by Amaechi at the International World Maritime Day event had soon
faced strong resentment from a long list of organizations and a wave of opposition that
reached the door of the House of Representatives. This led the House of Representatives to
begin investigating the matter. Many clauses of the agreement remain vague, including
elementary information such as the identity of the implementing company (HLSI), the exact
equipment to be supplied, and how the Navy, which is responsible securing Nigeria’s
waterways in general, is aware of the agreement’s full implications.
In May 2017, public pressure had obligated President Buhari to announce the complete
annulment of the deal, and the initiation of an investigation led by the NSA and the DIA. Three
months later the contract was reinstated. The Director General of NIMASA, Dakuku
Peterside, explained that the contract was initially stalled as a result of investigation on the
status of the firm. According to Peterside, the firm has since been given clean bill of health to
proceed with the contract after the conclusion of the investigation.
The scandalous deal did not stop president Buhari from appointing Minister Amaechi as his
re-election campaign’s Director General. Amaechi was also the Director General of the Buhari-
Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Committee between 2014 and 2015. The appointment
immediately raised suspicion that the payment in advance given to HLSI was truly intended to
finance Buhari’s 2019 election campaign. Suspicions intensified as soon as the president
announced he will not use governmental funds for his re-election campaign at the closure of
the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on January 2019.
The company behind the scandalous deal was identified as HSLI Systems and Technology Ltd.,
owned by Israeli-based Mitrelli Group and part of Mitrelli’s security branch. Until 2012 Mitrelli
was known as the LR Group, a company established in 1985 by three Israeli Air Force pilots.
The three became billionaires due to a lengthy list of deals in Angola and other countries
around the world. The LR group is shrouded in mystery and its work ethics have frequently
raised question marks. In 2012, the LR Group partners drifted apart and the business was
divided among them. One of LR's original founder, Eytan Stibbe (50%) and the former
manager of LR operations in Angola Haim Taib (50%) founded Mitrelli Group. Taib is Mitrelli's
General Manager. The chairman of HLSI Systems & Technology LTD is Nasiru Haladu Danu.
The Manager of HLSI Systems & Technology Ltd. Is Mickey Har Gaash.
Nasiru Danu is also a close friend of Minister Amaechi and the founding members of APC, all
were present at his weeding in December 2017. Nasiru Danu is also the Director of logistics
of the Buhari campaign organization for the 2019 Presidential election! The The chairman of
HLSI Systems & Technology LTD is the Director of logistics of the Buhari campaign
organization! And a close friend of the Transport Minister Amaechi who led the HLSi deal!
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Behind the President Muhammadu Buhari stands Nasiru Haladu Danu the chairman of HLSI
Systems & Technology LTD. The picture was taken during the opening of the Buhari Cam
Minister Amaechi contracted Israeli company LR Group during his tenure as the governor of
Nigerian Rivers state. On March 2012, Governor Amaechi and the Executive Director and Chief
Executive Officer of the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) initiated a
Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the LR Group (today they are called Mitrelli) to develop
a $140 million dollars 3000-hectare farm settlement in Etche.
On December 2014, the All Progressives Congress, (abbreviated as APC), has named Governor
Amaechi as the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organization, an
organization responsible for President Buhari’s 2015 presidential election. After the 2015
presidential elections accusations were made against Amaechi claiming that funds originally
designated to the LR Group Etche farm deal were used to fund President Buhari’s elections
campaign.
In August 2015, reports in Nigerian media were awash with Amaechi’s ownership of several
foreign accounts. In one of the reports, it was alleged that “the sum of over 757 million U.S.
dollars was stacked by Amaechi in a foreign U.S. Bancorp/Minnesota account. In October
2015, a Judicial Commission of Inquiry, set up to investigate the sale of state assets in Rivers
State under Amaechi demanded the immediate prosecution of Amaechi and all his cronies
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involved in the illegal sale of Rivers State assets. According to the panel report, Amaechi
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On April 2016 Fani-Kayode (Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation), was quoted in an article
that the former governor of the Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola and his counterpart Amaechi
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an online medium, new findings revealed that Amaechi had allegedly acquired and diverted
more than $40 Billion Nigerian Naira, originally of state funds, towards 2015 presidential
campaign.
Additional source in an interview to SIGNAL said that "the N6 billion largesse Amaechi donated
to Buhari just for the primaries alone is what was partly spent settling over 8,000 APC
delegates. Buhari outspent Atiku, Kwankwaso and the other aspirants. Delegates were settled
in hard currency before and on the grounds of the primaries. Another source who pleaded
anonymity, said: "Amaechi was the one spending most of the money for media, for the US
consultant David Axelrod and most of the private jets and vehicles used by APC during the
campaign were provided by him. That’s why he became known even within his party’s circles
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MITERELLI $195 MILLION WATERWAYS SECURITY DEAL
The waterways security deal led by Minister Amaechi and approved by the Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) was signed off by the Federal Executive Council
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The deal’s contractor, HLSI Security Systems and Technologies
, was supposed to be paid
$195 Million Dollars (about 60 Billion Nigerian Naira) to procure security equipment and train
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later reported that the contract consisted of three helicopters, three aircraft, three big battle-
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The Federal Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who disclosed the deal at an event
to mark World Maritime Day in Lagos, did not reveal the name of the Israeli firm involved in
the deal.
The contract was planned to commence in December 2018 and run for three
cosecutive years.
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During this period of time the Israeli firm will train and instruct the Nigerian security forces
personnel. After the expiration of the contract the operation will be handed over to the
Minister Amaechi had explained that the project would obviate the need
for security and escort of ships, cruisers and vessels crossing Nigeria’s waterways and added
that the Israelis have assured him that after the training of the security operatives, harassment
and attacks on Nigeria’s waterways will cease and that the firm will be held accountable if
such attacks will persist, after the Nigerian personnel training will take place.
In October
2017 Amaechi said that the Israeli company was “yet to launch because they are still buying
the equipment”.
Shortly after the contract was granted, critics began raising questions regarding the Nigerian
administration, hiring a foreign firm to secure Nigerian waterways, claiming it could
undermine Nigeria’s sovereignty and national security.
Minister Amaechi accused some governmental officials, and “people making money from
water” of sabotaging the government’s effort in restoring peace to Nigerian national waters.
The President approved a contract of $195 million dollars and there are people in the system
sabotaging that contract. The contract is to that restore security in the nation’s water.”
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Some civil society organizations (abbreviated as CSOs) have petitioned the speaker of the
House of Representatives regarding the deal. The petition, signed by ten CSOs and dated
November 14, 2017, was presented to the House of Representatives. It was entitled the
‘Petition on the Ceding of Nigerian Coastal Waterways to HLSI Security Firms and
Technologies and Commercialization of the Nigerian Navy to Shorefac Consortium Ltd.
(Shorefac Consortium will be technically dedicated to the maintenance of Naval vessels while
also acting as a commercial partner to the Navy). They claimed that this is an aberration to
Nigeria’s sovereignty to national security’. They appealed to the speaker of the House of
Representatives to investigate the $195 million contract, particularly the procurement
process leading to the selection of the HSLI company.
On December 8, 2017, the Nigerian House of Representatives had demanded a halt to a
contract. The Federal Government Chairman, Committee of the House Committee on Public
Petitions, Mr. Uzoma Abonta (PDP, Abia) made the official demand. The lawmaker said the
public hearing will enable the House of Representatives to have an overview of the matter
and the benefits Nigeria would gain from this deal. According to him, relevant invitations have
been sent to different parties including the Navy, Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA), Federal Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Defense, and other stakeholders to
Amaechi, and the Director General of NIMASA, Mr. Dakuku
Peterside, were present at the hearing. The hearing could not go ahead as planned due to the
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fact that the Nigerian Navy, who’s statutory duties centered on securing Nigerian waterways,
was not originally invited.
The Committee discovered that the Navy had not received an invitation and was not prepared
to respond to questions as the deal was hurriedly brokered by the minister without the
involvement of the Nigerian Navy. There had been indications that the Nigerian Navy was
deeply insulted for being sidelined and made his statutory duties look irrelevant as far as the
surreptitious security deal is concerned.
On March 2018, the House Committee on Public Petitions, which investigated the scandalous
contract, revealed that the contract would violate appropriation laws because it was not
based on the actual budget and recommended outright termination. The lawmakers said that
HLSI was not a registered company in Israel and that Amaechi failed to supply them with
documents even after they have conducted eight different hearings on the matter.
On January 2018, a Don at the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology in Lagos
and the leadership of the Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN) have mutually disagreed
over the viability of the signed $195 million dollars maritime security contract between the
Nigerian government and the Israeli firm HLSI Security Firms and Technology Inc.
the President of SOAN, Engr. Greg Ogbeifun stated that the maritime security contract signed
with HSLI goes against the nation's local content policy. According to Ogbeifun, “It is very dicey
for a nation to mortgage her sovereignty, particularly in the area of security, to a foreign
nation…the Navy, we all know, is in charge of policing our waters. So, if the Navy had been the
one bringing in the Israeli partner, then our local content policy would have been respected…
But the Navy didn’t bring in the foreign partner, to me the entire process is faulty”.
On January 11, 2018 the House of Representatives criticized the management of Nigeria’s
Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for awarding the contract to an Israeli firm, insisting
that the project is a breach of the country’s internal security. The House of Representatives
noted that the contract was not only a security breach but also defies the local content law,
which promulgates patronizing of Nigerian goods and services.
On January 31, 2018, a session convened at the National Assembly in Abuja investigating the
deal was stalled after lawmakers could not lay their hands on the contract papers. The House
of Representatives directed Amaechi and other stakeholders to produce the documents on
the $195million waterways security contract within 72 hours. Expressing frustration of the
committee, Nkem-Abonta stated, “We have been demanding these documents and we have
received no responses. This is about the 8th hearing on this issue. If the contractual
documents and agreements cannot be produced within the next 72 hours, we will be forced
to close this matter and make our recommendations to the House.”
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DEAL TERMINATION, MAY 2018
In May 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari had terminated the $195 million ‘Israeli’ security
contract.
Mr. Amaechi had long been considered as one of President Buhari’s biggest loyalists in his
cabinet, and is publicly considered crucial to the president’s re-election efforts. “The minister
carried us along in the contract,” a senior naval officer told PREMIUM TIMES under anonymity.
“He was able to get the president to sign the contract, but it seemed the president felt
deceived after learning that so many things were wrong with it.”
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In a memo dispatched written by the Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, he is directing
the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to terminate the contract.
Meanwhile, the president had also ordered the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the
Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) to investigate how the contractor obtained security
clearance for the job without an end-user certificate.
The president had also ordered that the contractor would to supply items equivalent to the
It was not clear whether
it will be possible for Nigeria to recover any amount of money of the advanced payment given
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THREE MONTHS LATER, THE CONTRACT WAS REINSTATED
Three months after the Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, directed the Attorney
General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to terminate the HSLi /Mitrelli contract. The
contract was reinstated.
The Director General of Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku
Peterside, explained that the contract was initially stalled as a result of investigation on the
status of the firm. According to Peterside, the firm has since been given clean bill of health to
proceed with the contract after the conclusion of the investigation.
He said, “At some point, there were issues raised about the status of the firm and indeed the
President directed that further investigations be made on the status and record of the firm.”
The contractor HSLi, Minister Amaechi and NIMASA were eager to show some progress in the
project in light of the overwhelming criticism started surveillance training for some security
agencies to jointly rid the waters of criminality. The surveillance training was to equip the
officers of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, the Department of State Services (DSS),
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and NIMASA, on the C4I Integrated Surveillance Systems operation. The system is expected to
aid the coordinated view of the entire Nigerian maritime domain.
Mitrelli (LR) Manager of Nogeria's HLSI Systems & Technology Ltd, Mr Mickey Har Gaash,
Director General, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Petetrside, Best Graduating Student, Mohammed El-
Yakubu and the Executive Director (Finance & Administration), NIMASA, Mr Bashir Yusuf
Jamoh during the Graduation of participatants special integrated course on maritime
surveillance and security in Lagos, February 6, 2019.
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The Director General, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, at the graduation ceremony held at the
Nigerian Maritime Resource Development Centre (NMRDC), in Lagos, yesterday, restated the
government's determination to ensure that Nigeria's territorial waters was free of piracy, and
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LR GROUP
The LR group Ltd., currently based in Herzliya, Israel, was founded in 1985 by Roy Ben Yami,
Ami Lustig and Eytan Stibbe. The company specializes in arms trade, and the development,
production, and initiation of various projects in the sectors of renewable energy, agriculture,
communications, infrastructure and healthcare. LR Group operates, inter alia, in developing
countries in large-scale regional agricultural development projects, cooperating with local
population and governmental officials.
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Stibbe, Lustig and Ben-Yami met during their military service in the F-16 squadron of the Israeli
Air Force. At the beginning, the three dealt with consulting companies in the Israeli Defense
Industry. Ami Lustig became a special advisor to Rafael for the development and marketing of
air-to-air missiles.
The first deal by LR was for the Portuguese Ministry of Finance, which was looking for entity
that would establish a maritime police force to protect against infiltrations and smuggling.
After their success in Portugal, the LR group was given a business opportunity in Angola.
During the civil war in the country, the Angolan president ordered the purchase of huge
quantities of weapons around the world. The LR Group bet on the president's victory in the
civil war.
Initially, they won a tender for renovation of the Luanda Airport, of the Luanda airport and a
contract to install communication systems in the field control tower, track lighting and air
control systems. Following this project, the company won a tender for the construction and
renovation of five additional airports in all the country's districts. Later on, Congo also ordered
from LR a total renovation of its international airport.
Some of the contracts signed between LR and the Angolan government included financing
from funds yielded off the sale of oil produced in the country and goods such as cocoa and
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LR's next deal was the acquisition of a Boeing 707 for the Angolan president and its renovation
with IAI. The contract was worth $ 14 million. Despite the success of the deal, it led to the
cessation of joint activity with IAI for a certain period of time. IAI received reports that LR were
buying most of the equipment for Angola in the former Eastern bloc countries.
Meanwhile, LR intensified its ties in Angola and supplied equipment not only to the Coast
Guard and the national air force, but also to the ground forces. The Israeli military industry,
which was in crisis at the time, understood that it was worthwhile for them to cooperate with
LR, and consequently cooperated in a variety of deals with LR in Angola. At the same time LR
received additional projects in the sector of airports renovation.
In addition to cooperating with the military industries in Israel, LR continued to cooperate with
the Eastern European countries. Initially, LR acquired two Russian-made Sukhoi 27 fighter jets.
The successful Sukhoi deal led the Angolan president to deepen his work with LR. LR opened
an office in Kiev, which employed many veterans of the Ukrainian security and government,
including associates to the then Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Among other things, LR
mediated between the Ukrainian radar industry and the Angolan authorities.
In 2000, Russian-made radar systems were sold to Ethiopia, and two years later the Ukrainian
press revealed suspicions that one of the systems sold to Ethiopia had found its way into the
hands of Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein, and behind the sale to Iraq was President Kuchma and
his LR associates. After a long investigation it was decided that there was no way to locate
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the radar in Iraq, and that there was no proof that Kuchma or LR were involved in transferring
it to Iraq.
In an indictment filed in 1999 in Romania against Shimon Naor, a former sales agent for Israeli
defense industries, it was alleged that LR, for which he also worked, had sheltered arms sales
to African countries that had been embargoed, such as Nigeria and Eritrea. According to the
indictment, weapons that came to Ukraine from Iran and Central Europe were loaded onto an
airplane leased by LR, which operated in the Ukraine, backed-up by the authorities.LR
representatives denied any connection to the transaction and any involvement in the arms
trade to the embargo countries.
In 2004, LR was linked to another weapons transfer from Bulgaria to a rebel fighting zone in
Congo. The deal was later annulled due to the French government's intervention in the
fighting and its strong request from Israel to instruct Israeli companies to stop assisting the
Ivorian authorities. LR associates deny any involvement in the deal.
The company also entered the medical field in Ukraine, where it established with a local
partner an advanced oncology hospital in a project estimated at $ 70 million.
As of 2016, an international criminal investigation is being conducted regarding the activity of
Cellcom Liberia, in which allegedly invited an Israeli-British hacker named Daniel Kaye (30) to
carry out a long-range cyber-attack against a competitor in order to disrupt its services. The
attack was out of control until, in November 2016, the Liberian government thought the attack
was directed against the Liberian state. The hacker testified in his investigation in Germany
that the attack was ordered by the CEO of Cellcom Liberia. The controlling shareholder of
Cellcom Liberia from its establishment in 2004 until mid-2016 was the LR Group. In January
2019 the hacker Daniel Kaye admitted attacking an African phone company - inadvertently
crashing Liberia's internet - in 2016. He was sentenced for 32 months. Judge Alexander Milne
QC said Kaye had committed a "cynical" financial crime. Kaye wept as he was taken down. The
National Crime Agency says Kaye is perhaps the most significant cyber criminal yet caught in
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In the early 2000s, the company expanded its businesses into civil sectors such as agriculture,
medicine, construction, infrastructure and cellular communications, and established a
number of projects in cooperation with the World Bank in Africa and third world countries.
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Eytan Stibbe retired a few years ago from the partnership, and founded
company with Haim Taib.
MITRELLI
Eytan Stibbe founded Mitrelli six years ago (2012) with Haim Taib, after ending his long-term
partnership with Roy Ben-Yami and Ami Lusting in the LR group. Mitrelli operates in
infrastructure projects in various countries, mainly in Angola.
Haim Taib Managing Director of Mitrelli
Eytan Stibbe
In recent years, Mitrelli built several projects in the sectors of agriculture, water treatment,
energy projects, and more. Mitrelli has more than 3,000 employees worldwide and has an
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known as the founding partner of the Vital Fund.
Following an examination in the Israeli Registrar of Companies, it was discovered that the
Mitrelli Group is owned by the two following firms; NOIT CONSULTING AND PROJECTS (2007)
LTD and S.B. HOLDINGS LTD. Further investigation revealed that NOIT CONSULTING AND
PROJECTS (2007) LTD is owned by Iris and Haim Taib and was formerly called MITRELLI GROUP
(ISRAEL) LTD. Correspondingly, it was discovered that S.T.B. HOLDINGS LTD is owned by Eytan
and Ora Stibbe. In recent years Stibbe has been trying to keep his name out of the arms
industry and chooses to promote his philanthropic business, the Vital Fund.
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HLSI
After the Angolan civil war ended in 2002, the need for armaments decreased significantly
and the LR group began to engage in other sectors including agriculture, satellites,
infrastructure, etc. In order to distance LR’s security activity from the civilian activity, a
subsidiary under the name of LRD INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (D = DEFENSE), was established
by the LR Group. According to the Panama Papers, LRD INTERNATIONAL LIMITED changed its
name in 2016 to HLS International Ltd.
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According to the documents, the company is
registered in Seychelles. In addition, the company has its HQ in Cyprus. The company is owned
by a number of other companies.
Same story another country – HLSI in Haiti
Israeli-HLSI taking over the discredited and downsized UN Troops’ Role in Haiti. The
unelected Martelly team just, on October 23, 2015 signed a massive border “surveillance”
agreement for land, air and sea with an Israeli company identified as HLSI. The Memorandum
of Understanding was signed by the Haitian government, represented by Laleau Wilson, the
defacto Minister of Economy and the HLSI Israeli firm, represented by its Vice-President Eva
Peled. Ms. Peled is a former lieutenant in the Israeli air force and is the CEO of Geomine and
Vice President of Mitrelli Group.
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According to data found in the Nigerian Registrar of Companies, the company is registered
under the name of HLSI Systems & Technology LTD as of July 4, 2017. Based on the above-
mentioned findings, HLSI Systems & Technology LTD is a subsidiary of HLS International Ltd.,
Seychelles. It is possible that the company under the name of HLSI Systems & Technology LTD
was registered in Nigeria especially for executing the $ 195 million waterways security deal.
The fact that the company was registered in 2017 corresponds to the time negotiations on
the contract with the Nigeria were taking place. The chairman of HLSI Systems & Technology
LTD is Mr. Nasiru Danu. The Manager of HLSI Systems & Technology Ltd. Is Mickey Har Gaash.
According to our sources, Israeli citizen Pini Moria is the CEO of the Nigerian-based company
HLSI Systems & Technology LTD.
Mr. Nasiru Danu - the chairman of HLSI Systems & Technology LTD (Nigeria)
Mr. Mickey Har Gaash - Manager of HLSI Systems & Technology LTD (Nigeria)
December 2017 - Wedding of Nasiru Haladu Danu And Amne Kam-Salem. In attendance at the
International Conference Centre venue of the traditional engagement and Nikkah ceremony
were eminent personalities like the country’s number two woman, H.E Dolapo Osinbajo, the
https://www.maritimefirstnewspaper.com/2019/02/08/israeli-security-firm-hlsi-equips-nigeria-
with-skill-to-tackle-piracy/
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, APC National Chairman John Odigie Oyegun,
Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi, family, friends and well-wishers all came out en mass to
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http://tozalionline.com/2017/12/19/exclusive-wedding-pictures-nasiru-haladu-danu-amne-kam-
salem/
http://tozalionline.com/2017/12/19/exclusive-wedding-pictures-nasiru-haladu-danu-amne-kam-
salem/
Note the website in the pictuere: http://www.hisisrael.com it's a WIX website that was taken don after
the cancelation of the Nigerian HLSI deal.
Note the website in the pictuere: http://www.hisisrael.com it's a WIX website that was taken don after
the cancelation of the Nigerian HLSI deal.
A name that came up as a representative of HLSI in Nigeria was Eva Peled. Eva Peled appears
in LinkedIn as the Vice-President at Mitrelli from February 2011 to the present day,
concurrently serving as CEO of GEOMINE (a company that specializes in the development of
mining technology), and since December 2017 serves as vice president of the Israel-Ivory
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Coast Chamber of Commerce THE ISRAELI COMPANY BEHIND BUHARI'S CAMPAIGN FINANCING
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