Daniel Mcann, from St Mary, was one of three men jailed this week at Southwark Crown Court following the international scam carried out between 2005 and 2009.
The court heard how leading city lawyer, Bhadresh Gohil, used his expertise to cream off profits from a telecoms takeover deal in the West African nation.
Gohil – branded a ‘professional snake in the grass’ by a judge – then arranged for the money, which should have gone into the public purse in two Nigerian states, to be smuggled overseas.
• Read the full report in Saturday’s JEP
