The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Sahara Reporters’ publisher, Omoyele Sowore, over alleged money laundry publication in which a London base Journalist and Checkout International Magazine’s publisher, Lekan Fatodu, was indicted of assisting Nigerian politicians in moving money out of the country.

The Guild gathered that Sowore was arrested at his house in Lagos and moved to area F Police station at Ikeja on Wednesday after Fatodu, who was said to had lodged complain to police, received tip about the Sahara reporters’ boss appearance in the state and reported to nearby police station for his immediate arrest.

While the police refused to speak to press over cause of the Sahara Reporter’s publisher arrest, source close to the complainant who spoke to The Guild at the police station after the two publishers were removed out of sights, said that Sowore’s media outfit article which was alleged to have accused Fatodu of assisting Femi Fani Kayode, who is his close friend, in moving money out of the country.

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