Footie star ‘was money launderer’

A former Premier League footballer and his three brothers laundered £80,000 through their bank accounts, a court heard. Ex-Reading FC player Sam Sodje, 38, Akpo Sodje, and Efe Sodje, 45, paid in the proceeds of an international invoice fraud, is is claimed. Akpo Sodje, who played for Huddersfield Town and Sheffield Wednesday, allegedly received thousands from Emmanuel Ehikhamen, 32, sending some on to Sam Sodje. Akpo, who now lives in Dubai, refused to return to the UK to be interviewed…