A federal high court sitting in Lagos has frozen the account of Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, over alleged involvement in Money Laundering.
Prosecuting counsel of the EFCC, Idris Mohammed while arguing the application which was filed by Rotimi Oyedepo, urged the court to grant temporal forfeiture, alleging that the money was a proceed of crime deposited in the lawyer’s account in december.
Judge Abdulaziz Anka ruled that the account be temporarily suspended for a hundred and twenty days.
