Money laundering lawyer may have to pay millions of pounds back

A disgraced solicitor who laundered millions of pounds for a corrupt former Nigerian state governor will face confiscation proceedings next month. Bhadresh Gohil, 55, was jailed for a total of ten years in 2011 for laundering funds stolen by former Nigerian Delta State governor Joseph 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 telecoms takeover…