Nigeria: UK solicitor named in bribery probe

A solicitor in a small north London firm has been named in connection with a $180m (pounds 100m) French and American corruption investigation which could lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney, the US vice-president. The solicitor has been identified in the French press as a financial intermediary in the deal being investigated. The Paris inquiry, led by Judge Renaud van Ruymbeke, concerns allegations of bribery against an international consortium building a $4bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Nigeria during the regime of the late dictator Sani Abacha.