Nigeria, March 31 -- The Court of Appeal in Sokoto, Sokoto State, has convicted two Chinese nationals of money laundering involving an attempt to bribe an investigative officer with N50 million cash.

The convicts - Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuai - got away with only three years imprisonment with an option of a cumulative N20 million on the two counts the court convicted them of.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accused them of attempting to bribe its official with N50 million cash to compromise an ongoing criminal investigation on a Chinese firm.

According to a statement by the EFCC on Friday, the Chinese men gave the N50 million cash to the zonal head of the agency in Sokoto, Abdullahi Lawal, in May 2011, to compromise an...