According to a report released last weekend by American lifestyle
magazine,
Vanity Fair, Nigerian oil Tycoon, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija owns five
apartments in
London’s One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block.
Vanity Fair in their report wrote that Mrs Alakija owns five
apartments in the 6,000 pounds-per-square-feet apartment block which she
bought at a
combined fee of $123 million (N18.4billion), making her the second
highest property owner in the upmarket area after Rinat Akhmetov,
Ukraine’s
richest man and owner of
Ukranian football club, Shaktar Donesk, whose property is valued at
$215.9 million.
Others who own property at One Hyde Park include some of the richest men
in Britain, Russia, Taiwan, sheiks from UAE, Naomi Campbell's boyfriend
Vladislav Doronin also owns an apartment there.
According to the investigation by tax haven expert, Nicholas Shaxton,
who wrote the report for Vanity Fair, just 17 of the 76 sold apartments
are primary residences. Because the property owners are so wealthy, many
of them have other homes and do not
use their exclusive Hyde Park address as their permanent home. Shaxton
also revealed that many of the owners use offshore companies to buy the
homes to enable them hide their identity.
Hawkins said this to newsmen in Umuahia, after a banquet
hosted for him and his delegation by Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia, during
their one-day working visit to the state.
