Lebanese Businessman Chagoury Reported By Son Of Nigeria’s First Solicitor-Gen Amachree To Israel PM Netanyahu As Terrorist Hezbollah Funder Protected By Nigerian Govt
Stockholm, Sweden
9 April 2026
TO:
The Right Honourable Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of the State of Israel
Office of the Prime Minister, Kiryat HaMemshala, Jerusalem
The Director, Mossad — HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim
Via the Embassy of Israel, Stockholm, Sweden
AND TO THE ISRAELI PEOPLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RECORD
RE: FORMAL INTELLIGENCE SUBMISSION — A MAJOR DOCUMENTED FINANCIER OF HEZBOLLAH IS OPERATING FREELY IN NIGERIA WITH THE FULL PROTECTION OF THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY. THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF NIGERIANS DEPEND ON YOUR RESPONSE.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu, and to the Director of Mossad:
I write to you as a son of Nigeria, a Swedish citizen, and a man who carries in his blood a documented history of friendship between my family and the State of Israel at its highest levels. I write also as a diaspora activist who has spent months assembling and publishing documented evidence of a grave and active threat — one that sits at the precise intersection of Hezbollah financing, Nigerian state capture, and the security crisis that has cost thousands of Nigerian lives.
I am Kio Amachree, President of Worldview International, writing from Stockholm, Sweden. Before I present the substance of this submission, permit me to establish the personal and historical context in which I write.
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- A Family Bond With Israel — Forged at the Highest Levels
My father was Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General and Acting Attorney-General, and subsequently the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Trusteeships and Non-Self-Governing Territories. He was one of the most senior Africans ever to serve in the United Nations Secretariat, and he served with distinction during some of the most consequential years in the history of decolonisation.
In that capacity, my father developed a deep and personal friendship with Prime Minister Golda Meir. When Nigeria severed diplomatic relations with Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War — a decision taken under enormous Arab pressure — Prime Minister Meir personally reached out to my father. She did not merely seek comfort in an old friendship. She asked him directly to speak with General Yakubu Gowon and use his influence to persuade the Head of State to reverse Nigeria’s decision to sever ties with Israel.
My father, loyal to both his friend and his sense of duty, did exactly that. He went to General Gowon. He made the case. He argued with the full weight of his personal credibility and his profound respect for the State of Israel. But he did not prevail. Gowon’s decision held, driven by the pressure of the moment and the politics of the Organisation of African Unity. My father returned from that effort having failed in the mission but having demonstrated, at personal and political cost, where his loyalties and his values truly lay.
Prime Minister Meir understood this. The friendship between them deepened rather than fractured because of it. My father had tried. He had stood up for Israel when it mattered and when it was not the easy or popular thing to do.
My father also maintained a close and warm friendship with Prime Minister Menachem Begin — a relationship built on mutual respect between two men who understood the weight of history, the price of sovereignty, and the meaning of honour.
I do not invoke these friendships lightly or for sentimental reasons. I invoke them because they are the foundation on which I feel entitled to write to you directly, man to man, across the decades — and because they represent the kind of honest, principled engagement between Nigeria and Israel that has been absent for too long, and that the threat I am about to describe makes urgently necessary to revive.
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- Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Pledge — And Why I Am Responding To It
On 31 December 2025, at Palm Beach, Florida, you told Evangelical Christian leaders that Christians are being persecuted in Syria, in Lebanon, in Nigeria, in Turkey and beyond. You pledged that Israel would join an effort to support Christian communities under threat around the world, and that confronting terrorism — in Africa, with intelligence — was a central part of your agenda for 2026.
Prime Minister, I took your words seriously. I take them seriously now. And I am responding to them with a specific, documented, actionable intelligence submission that I believe demands your personal attention and the attention of Mossad.
I must be transparent: I do not always agree with the policies of your government. I hold that view openly, as a man of independent conviction. But we are now in a period of acute global warfare against the forces you named — radical Shiite Islam led by Iran, and the networks that serve it — and Hezbollah sits at the centre of that constellation. When you pledged to fight that threat in Nigeria, I knew I had an obligation to write to you. Because what I have found, and what I have documented, is that Hezbollah is not merely present in Nigeria. It is being financially enabled by a man who has the full protection, partnership, and enrichment of the Nigerian presidency itself.
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III. Gilbert Chagoury — Hezbollah’s Financier, Operating in Nigeria With Presidential Protection
Gilbert Chagoury is a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and the principal of the Chagoury Group. He lives part of the year in Nigeria. His construction subsidiaries — Hitech Construction Company Ltd. and ITB Nigeria — have received over twelve billion dollars in Nigerian state contracts since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in 2023.
He is also, by the documented record of the United States government, a suspected financier of Hezbollah.
In 2017, Chagoury was denied entry into the United States on terrorism-related grounds. U.S. federal court filings and intelligence databases contain the allegation that he sent funds to General Michel Aoun — Hezbollah’s key Christian political ally in Lebanon — which were transferred onward to Hezbollah. This resulted in a formal U.S. visa revocation — a legal consequence, not a rumour, and not an allegation made lightly by any government.
The FBI has documented that Chagoury funded a Lebanese politician whose party was in formal coalition with Hezbollah, and through whom funds were passed to that organisation.
More recently, Lebanese outlet Al Shiraa reported that Chagoury set aside $100 million to support the presidential bid of Suleiman Franjieh — a pro-Assad, pro-Hezbollah politician who has publicly called Assad his friend and brother. Chagoury is also reported to be personally close to Speaker Nabih Berri, one of Hezbollah’s most powerful political patrons, regularly hosting him and his wife in Paris.
You, Prime Minister, know better than anyone what Nabih Berri represents. You know what Suleiman Franjieh represents. You know what $100 million directed into that political ecosystem means in practical terms for Hezbollah’s operational capacity and political survival. I do not need to explain it to Mossad.
This is not a man with past associations to Hezbollah. This is a man with active, ongoing, and financially substantial relationships with Hezbollah’s Lebanese political infrastructure — and he is operating at the very centre of Nigerian economic and political life, with the full blessing of the Nigerian president.
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- The Prior Criminal Record
Chagoury’s record with law enforcement spans multiple jurisdictions. In 2000, he was convicted in Switzerland for laundering money belonging to Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s most reviled military dictator. Nigeria’s own anti-corruption prosecutors described him as a kingpin in the corruption that defined the Abacha era.
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed he paid $1.8 million to resolve a deferred prosecution agreement for conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions to U.S. presidential and congressional candidates through a straw donor scheme.
A Swiss conviction. A U.S. deferred prosecution agreement. A U.S. visa denial on terrorism grounds. And yet in Nigeria today he is celebrated, enriched, and nationally honoured.
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- The Tinubu-Chagoury Architecture — State Capture in Plain Sight
The relationship between President Bola Tinubu and Gilbert Chagoury is not political favour. It is documented family and financial entanglement.
President Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, sits on the board of CDK Integrated Industries, a Chagoury Group subsidiary. Seyi Tinubu and Ronald Chagoury’s son are co-shareholders in a British Virgin Islands offshore shell company — precisely the structure used globally to obscure beneficial ownership and the movement of funds across jurisdictions.
Since Tinubu took office in May 2023, Chagoury’s companies have received: the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contract — between $11 and $13 billion, awarded without competitive bidding; the Lagos ports renovation — $700 million, backed by UK Export Finance and signed at Downing Street with Chagoury present in the Nigerian delegation; and the Snake Island container terminal — a $1 billion, 45-year concession. The aggregate exceeds twelve billion dollars, transferred to a single man with a Hezbollah financing record, a money laundering conviction, and a family business partnership with the Nigerian head of state.
In January 2026, President Tinubu conferred on Chagoury the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger — Nigeria’s second highest national honour.
Hezbollah’s financier is not hiding in Nigeria. He is being decorated by its president.
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- The Consequence in Blood
Prime Minister, you spoke of Christians being persecuted in Nigeria. You are right. Thousands upon thousands of Nigerian civilians — Christians and Muslims alike — have been slaughtered in a security crisis of mounting catastrophe. The Angwan Rukuba massacre in Jos. The relentless Boko Haram and ISWAP campaigns across the north. The political violence in Rivers State. A great nation bleeding from wounds that its own government appears unwilling or unable to close — because the government itself is compromised.
Hezbollah does not stay in Lebanon. It does not stay in the Middle East. It walks where its money takes it. And its money, in documented part, has walked into Nigeria — into the presidential palace, into the business empire of the president’s closest partner, into contracts worth more than the annual budgets of most African nations. Hezbollah walks around Nigeria as if it owns the country. Because in certain corridors of power, it very nearly does.
No Nigerian security crisis can be addressed honestly while the president of Nigeria is in a documented business partnership with a man who has financed the organisation that is the primary instrument of Iranian terror across the world.
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VII. My Request to You and to Mossad
Prime Minister Netanyahu, in the spirit of your December 2025 pledge, and in the spirit of the friendship that bound Golda Meir and Menachem Begin to my father, I ask the following:
That Israeli intelligence — Mossad — review and act upon the documented Hezbollah financing links of Gilbert Chagoury and his active operations in Nigeria, treating this submission as a formal intelligence referral.
That the State of Israel consider the intelligence implications of Chagoury’s presence within the Nigerian presidential delegation at international summits, and his unimpeded access to the inner circle of Africa’s most populous nation’s head of state.
That the State of Israel, in keeping with your pledge to confront Hezbollah’s global financing network with intelligence and with force, engage urgently on the Nigerian dimension of this network — which is hiding in plain sight behind billion-dollar construction contracts and a national honour.
And that this letter be received in the spirit in which it is written — not as the communication of an adversary, but as the letter of a Nigerian whose father stood with Israel when it cost something to do so, who tried to reverse his country’s rupture with your state at Golda Meir’s personal request, and who lost that argument but never lost his integrity.
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VIII. Conclusion
My father went to General Gowon for Golda Meir. He failed, but he tried. He stood on the right side of history even when history did not reward him for it.
I write this letter in that same tradition. I am not asking Israel for a favour. I am bringing you a documented threat to your security, to Nigeria’s security, and to the thousands of Nigerians who are dying while a Hezbollah financier is treated as a national hero by their president.
Act on it. The world is watching. History will record who responded and who looked away.
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Kio Amachree
President, Worldview International
Stockholm, Sweden
9 April 2026
Submitted simultaneously to: The Prime Minister of Israel | The Director of Mossad, via the Embassy of Israel, Stockholm | Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Treasury | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Financial Crimes Enforcement Network | U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee | UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper | UK Serious Fraud Office | UK National Crime Agency | TRACFIN, France | FINMA, Switzerland | The International Public
