Bent lawyer will defend himself as QC withdraws

A former solicitor who laundered millions of pounds for a corrupt former Nigerian state governor may have to defend himself at his confiscation hearing. Bhadresh Gohil was jailed for a total of ten years in 2011 for laundering funds stolen by former Nigerian Delta State governor James Ibori, 62. Gohil, a founder member of the Association of Asian Lawyers in Britain, had also used his expertise as a partner at a top law firm to cream off profits from a…