Nigeria, March 27 -- The man, who powered the big push that made Access Holdings West Africa's top banking institution and one of the biggest on the continent, owned 106 properties in London, which are registered elsewhere in shell companies outside the UK, according to a new investigation by The Londoner.

The UK-based media outlet, in its findings, named Herbert Wigwe, the former chief executive of Access Holdings, who died in February 2024, among several billionaires recently identified as using offshore tax havens to shield the ownership of their properties from public knowledge.

At the end of its findings, the newspaper uncovered 32,611 properties in London whose ownership could not be traced for a long time.

The revelation is a ma...