Bhadresh Gohil

British prosecutors have launched an attempt to confiscate 30.8 million pounds ($39.3 million) from Bhadresh Gohil, the London lawyer who assisted former Delta state governor James Ibori in looting and laundering funds from the state.

Gohil was convicted in 2010 of 13 counts of money-laundering and other offences linked to his role in the case of Ibori, who was governor of Delta from 1999 to 2007.

Gohil was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Then a partner at a firm in the London district of Mayfair, …