THE chief executive and operations director fired by stricken oil producer Afren over a pay scandal, racked up a bill of nearly £640,000 for “unauthorised” private jet flights.
Afren fired Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah in October after investigators uncovered secret deals with the company’s Nigerian oil partners that would have paid them and a clutch of other directors, known internally as “the A team”, up to $200m (£132m) over four years. Shahenshah and Ullah repaid $9.2m and $7.9m, respectively, plus $3m in legal fees, but admitted no wrongdoing.
In its annual report published last week, Afren revealed that Shahenshah had run up a £288,000 bill for “unauthorised private use” of the corporate jet in 2013 and 2014. Over the same period, Ullah took flights