Anti-graft agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed criminal charges against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, at the Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations of receiving property through corrupt means and using forged documents.
Newsbuka gathered that the charges, filed on 16 January by Ngozi Onwuka of the ICPC’s High Profile Prosecution Department, followed a damning September 2025 judgment by a London property tribunal that linked the 68-year-old lawyer to fraud and forged documents in a dispute over a North London house.
In the court documents, Mr Ozekhome faces three criminal counts.
The first count states that sometime in August 2021, he directly received House 79 Randall Avenue, London, purportedly given to him by one Shani Tali in a transaction the ICPC says constitutes a felony under the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
In the second count, the senior lawyer is being accused of making a false document, a Nigerian passport bearing number A07535463 in the name of Mr Shani Tali, with the intent to support a claim of ownership of the London property. This charge is filed under the Penal Code of the Federal Capital Territory.
Meanwhile, in the third count, Mr Ozekhome is accused of dishonestly using the allegedly false passport as genuine to support the property ownership claim when he had reason to believe the document was false.
Recall that Judge Ewan Paton of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) had delivered a judgment on 11 September 2025 blocking Mr Ozekhome from seizing the house in North London.
The tribunal held that the case was built on a network of fraud, impersonation, and forged documents. It concluded that the late Jeremiah Useni, former Minister of FCT, was the genuine purchaser of the property in 1993.
ICPC Files Charges Against Ozekhome over Purchase of London Property
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