Nigeria, June 30 -- Senior lawyer Mike Ozekhome's defence team on Monday grilled a forensic expert brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a prosecution witness to prove forgery nas impersonation charges against Mr Ozekhome and his co-defendant.

The grilling during cross-examination by the defence team at the FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, elicited answers from the witness on the technical procedures and the general principles of the probe he conducted into the forgery allegations against the defendants.

The defendants are facing charges of impersonation and forgery of a Nigerian passport presented before a London tribunal by the defendants to support Mr Ozekhome's failed bid to claim a London property.

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