Reports are surfacing that rapper Eve has become entangled in what’s being described as a “massive U.S. Senate investigation into the illicit movement of millions of foreign dollars through the American financial system,” according to ABCNews.com.
The former sitcom star has been under the watchful eye of Senate investigators, by way of her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Teodorin Nguema Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Reports indicate that the investigation stems from the tracking of money flowing in and out of the United States from accounts held by Obiang.
According to the investigative report, Eve was among middle men (as well as lawyers, escrow and real estate agents) to set up shell companies in the United States. Obiang allegedly used those companies to wire funds, allowing him to make numerous expensive purchases.
Eve’s supposed role in the scheme amounts only to a “cameo,” as most of the tasks are thought to have been carried out by two Los Angeles lawyers.
Details are still emerging. –gerald radford
