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Mateus “Nando” Meira Rita Interesting Character......

Nando involved attached to Feltang.

In São Tomé, plenty of people have questioned the deal. A December 2005 report by São Tomé's attorney general said that the country's lead negotiator on the agreement, Carlos Gomes, a nephew of the prime minister, was awarded an executive position at STPetro and a salary of thousands of dollars a month paid by ERHC. The report said that Mateus “Nando” Meira Rita, a former São Toméan Secretary of State, became STPetro's general manager and also received a generous salary as an ERHC consultant. SEC records show that in 1998 ERHC named Rita as its Vice President of International Affairs and granted him 500,000 shares of company stock valued at $158,203.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/06/sb-meet-willia-1150323062
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The report cited a $100,000 payment Offor's Chrome made to a company controlled by Sao Tomean President Fradique de Menezes, and the role of Foreign Minister Mateus "Nando" Rita played helping to renegotiate ERHC's contract while also holding 500,000 shares of company stock.
http://www.ocnus.net/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=101&num=25989
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But key names on the government's search list are compelling.

The list includes a request for any correspondence Nigerian President Olusegan Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Sao Tome and Principe President Fradique de Menezes, former Sao Tome President Miquel Trovoada and his son Patrice, Sao Tome energy officials Joaquim Rafael Branco and Gabriel Arcanjo Ferreira Da Costa, JDA chief Carlos Braganca Gomes, and former Sao Tome foreign minister Mateus "Nando" Meira Rita, and a First Atlantic Bank director who was also a competing bidder for Joint Development Zone blocks, Emmanue Efoby, the head of Foby Engineering.
http://erhc.blogspot.com/2006/06/facts-emerge-about-erhc-energy.html
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Mateus Meira ‘Nando’ Rita, a former secretary of state
for co-operation, became STPetro’s general manager. In August PFC transferred all of
its rights and obligations in the venture with STP to ERHC. Meanwhile, ERHC paid
another $2 million of its commitments to the government. The next month ERHC
engaged Carlos Gomes and Mateus Meira Rita as the company’s consultants, allegedly
for a monthly salary of $5,000.
http://www.afsaap.org.au/Conferences/2004/seibert.PDF
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US public company, controlled by Chrome
Energy owned by Nigerian businessman Sir
Emeka Offor, known to be an ally of President
Obasanjo. Some shares held by Mateus
“Nando” Meira Rita, formerly Chief of Staff to
Sao Tome and Principe President and now Sao
Tomean Ambassador to Nigeria and Equatorial
Guinea. and Principe.
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/cgsd/STP/documents/PGR_Report_English.pdf
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On February 21, 2002, Chrome admitted to making a payment to CGI, a company owned
by President de Menezes. President de Menezes has said in a taped press conference that the
money was for his political party, the MDFM, and that other parties also received money from
Chrome and Nigerian interests. Although foreign funding of campaigns is apparently quite
common, São Toméan law explicitly prohibits political party funding by foreign entities. See Lei
dos Partidos Políticos, Art. 27, 4.
13 One public example was São Tomé and Principe’s Foreign Minister, Mateus “Nando”
Rita, who still owned 500,000 shares in ERHC and was a former company consultant.
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/cgsd/STP/documents/PGR_Report_English.pdf
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