Nigeria, Oct. 4 -- The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has opened an investigation into prominent Nigerian lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, following a damning judgment of a London property tribunal that linked him and others to a web of fraud and forged documents.

PREMIUM TIMES can report that the ICPC probe was triggered by a petition from Olanrewaju Suraj, head of the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA).

The petition referenced the British court judgement and accused Mr Ozekhome, his son Osilama, and several others of conspiring with corrupt Nigerian officials to procure fake national identity documents in a bid to "fraudulently claim ownership" of a North London house.

"These findings ...