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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has revealed that he rejected a N405 million brief from a former governor in order to help the ex-state chief executive launder funds abroad.
He asked lawyers not to succumb to the lure of filthy lucre to assist politically exposed persons (PEPs) to commit financial crimes.
Falana’s testimony at an anti-corruption workshop in Abuja was released to the press yesterday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in its monthly magazine called ALERT.
Falana said: “The governor asked me to assist him in transferring money abroad, and that I should claim it to be proceeds from sale of his property in Nigeria.
“And the price was extremely attractive. He was going to pay me a million pounds then, when money was money.
“The governor said he had chosen me for the shady deal, because ‘nobody will suspect you’.
“I told him, ‘Your Excellency, so it is my reputation that you want to buy with your one million pounds?’
.”Some of my colleagues thought I was stupid, but those who accepted the offer later found themselves in trouble, as they were arrested and humiliated. They were only lucky not to have been charged to court.”
He advised lawyers against being used by politically exposed persons.
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