James Ibori imprisonment: UK lawyer arrested for hiring Private Investigation firm to bribe policemen

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A top lawyer has been arrested after allegedly hiring a British private investigations firm who bribed policemen on behalf of a disgraced Nigerian politician.

Ian Timlin was arrested by officers at his home in Kent in April on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt a police officer, perverting the course of justice and money-laundering offences.

The former litigation partner at Speechly Bircham, a law firm specialising in tax affairs and corporate transactions, is said to have hired the agency for a disgraced Nigerian governor, James Ibori.

The politician, who was jailed for embezzlement last year after stealing around £50million, hired Speechly Bircham while the Metropolitan Police were investigating his affairs.

Documents seen by The Independent newspaper suggest that Mr Timlin hired RISC Management, an investigations firm run by former police officers, who allegedly paid serving detectives a fee of £20,000 for information that was given to Ibori’s defence lawyers.

According to the documents, a payment of £5,000 was also allegedly made to a source for information relating to ‘forthcoming interviewing strategy to be deployed by police’.

A spokesperson for Speechly Bircham said: ‘Given an arrest was made some months ago and there has since been no charge, it would be inappropriate for us to comment.

Read more: Daily Mail

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