Man arrested with $578,000 at Lagos airport faints in court

A businessman, Okorie Sunday, arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, with $578,000 in cash, collapsed in court during his trial on Wednesday.

Okorie is being tried at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

He was called into the dock for the charge to be re-read to him but collapsed just as the court registrar was about to read the counts.

DAILY POST reported that the suspect was on Tuesday arraigned by the the Economic and Financial Crimes…