Supo Shasore (SAN), ex-Lagos Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, has been charged with money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The EFCC charged the founding partner of Africa Law Practice NG & Co. with four counts in the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Shasore, 58, is accused of coercing one Olufolakemi Adelore into accepting $100,000 cash without first going through a financial institution.
The payment to Ms Adelore was allegedly paid by Auwalu Habu and Wole Aboderin.
The former AG is also accused of making a $100,000 cash payment to one Ikechukwu Oguine without going through a financial institution.
The alleged acts were perpetrated on or around November 18, 2014, according to the anti-graft agency.
They violated provisions 78(c), 1(a), 16(1)(d), and 18(c) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended), as well as sections 16(6) and 16(2)(b) of the same Act.
Shasore will be arraigned on October 20, 2022, according to Federal High Court Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke.
Adelore and Oguine worked as lawyers for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources (NNPC).
In January, the EFCC questioned Shashore about Nigeria’s case against Process and Industrial Development (P&ID).
After claiming breach of contract, the firm obtained a $9.6 billion arbitral verdict against the federal government in 2012.
Shasore, who represented Nigeria, is accused of undermining the country’s case against the corporation from the British Virgin Islands.
According to the authorities, he allegedly worked against national interests, engaged in corruption, and failed to cross-examine P&ID founder Michael Quinn.
Furthermore, Shasore allegedly neglected to timely deliver critical documents to Bolaji Ayorinde, the Senior Advocate who took his place in the case.
