The High Court has refused to block the extradition of British solicitor Jeffrey Tesler to the US, where he faces corruption charges.
Tesler, 62, a dual British and Israeli national, is accused by the American authorities of involvement in an international conspiracy to channel bribes to senior officials in Nigeria.
Lawyers for Tesler, who works in Tottenham, north London, where he has lived for more than 50 years, argued that the conduct complained of did not occur in America and there were "insufficiently substantial links" between it and the US to legally justify extradition.
They also complained that delay and the passage of time has compromised his chances of a fair trial.
But Lord Justice Pill and Mr Justice Roderick Evans, in London, said the fact that the eventual "harm" might be in Nigeria did not detract from the US connection - the essence of the US offence being bribery of foreign officials.
They also said that, in the circumstances, extradition was not barred by reason of the passage of time.
The judges had heard it was alleged that bribes were paid from a 132 million US dollar (£88.4 million) slush fund to influence the awarding of a six billion US dollar (£4 billion) construction contract for a natural gas plant on Bonny Island in Nigeria.
Tesler was accused of acting as the middleman in the conspiracy, said to have occurred between 1994 and 2004.
He was arrested at the request of the US government after a grand jury indictment was filed at a US district court in Houston, Texas, in February 2009.
District judge Caroline Tubbs, sitting at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, decided Tesler's extradition could go ahead and two months later Home Secretary Theresa May ordered his removal.
