Supo Shasore, ex-Lagos Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice was grilled on Tuesday over Nigeria’s case against Process and Industrial Development (P&ID).

In 2010, P&ID signed a Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

The offer was to develop and operate an Accelerated Gas Development job to be sited at Adiabo in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River.

In 2012, the business won a $9.6 bn arbitral award against the Federal Government after declaring breach of agreement.

Shasore, who represented Nigeria, is being accused of damaging the country’s defence against the British Virgin Island firm.

The authorities keep that throughout the tussle, the legal practitioner worked against nationwide interest and taken part in corruption.

Shasore was questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives at the Abuja headquarters.

It is unclear if the head of Africa Law Practice NG & & Co and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) was enabled to leave. The commission remains silent.

In 2020, a United Kingdom commercial court declared that Nigeria could challenge the 2012 ruling in favour of P&ID.

The judge, Ross Cranston said the government complained about Shasore’s non-disclosure of the case to his chamber and ran it through a 3rd party.

The different company, Twenty Marina Solicitors, was allegedly paid a legal cost of $2million. Shasore is implicated of stopping working to cross-examine Michael Quinn, P&ID creator.

The action, FG insists, strengthened the P&ID’s argument in court. This was understood after Quinn had actually died.

For over one year, Shasore apparently stopped working to hand over crucial documents to Bolaji Ayorinde, the SAN who replaced him.

Nigeria’s legal agent, Mark Howard informed the court that in the first 2 stages of legal fireworks, the former Lagos authorities “defended the case thinly”.

Moreover, Shasore apparently made payment of $100,000 each to Folakemi Adelore and Ikechukwu Oguine, attorneys for Petroleum Ministry and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The EFCC is prosecuting P&ID officials, James Richard Nolan and Adam Quinn (at large), prior to Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

The British nationals were implicated of complicity in the controversial gas processing agreement, in addition to the arbitral award.

Nolan and Quinn, directors of Goidel Resources Limited, a Designated Non-Financial Institution (DNFI) and ICIL Limited, face a 32-count charge verging on money laundering.