Nigeria, July 9 -- Nigeria is cirrently locked in a fresh legal battle with a controversial British Virgin Island engineering firm, P&ID, over the use of bank records obtained by the Nigerian authorities.

The fresh crisis is in relation to an alleged bribery scheme and subsequent $9.6 billion arbitral claim which the Nigerian government seeks to overturn.

Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES showed the company requested a 'pre-motion discovery conference' with the court in its bid to stop the Nigerian government from using certain information obtained from banks in the United States.

In May, this newspaper reported how the Nigerian government demanded records of 60 companies and individuals from 10 banks in the United States, including ...