KC Luxury faces 22-count charge over alleged ₦39bn cocaine shipment

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arraigned luxury goods dealer and lifestyle influencer, Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popularly known as KC Luxury, and two others over alleged cocaine trafficking and money laundering.

The Guardian reports that Afolabi, Boniface Freeman Ochoche Sule and Ikechukwu Ekugo Patriarch were brought before Justice Ayokunle Olayinka Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos on a 22-count charge.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to allegations involving the attempted export of 184.5kg of cocaine concealed in five consignments destined for London.

Sixteen counts also accuse Afolabi of laundering billions of naira through several companies and personal accounts to conceal proceeds allegedly linked to the drug trade.

NDLEA prosecutor, Abu Ibrahim, opposed their bail application and urged the court to remand them pending trial.

Justice Faji ordered the defendants to be remanded in the agency’s facility and adjourned the case until October 4, 2026, for ruling on the bail application.

Afolabi was arrested on August 13 while allegedly attempting to flee Nigeria on a business-class flight to Paris.

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