By By Elsie Udoh
Doyin Okupe, the Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has been convicted by the Federal High Court in FCT for money laundering on Monday, December 19.
According to Premium Times, Okupe was found guilty of contravening sections 16(1) and (2) of the Money Laundering Act, for receiving cash payments without going through a bank, in excess of the threshold statutorily allowed.
Okupe who was also a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was held on a total of 26 counts – from counts 34 to 59 of the charges.
The presiding judge ruled, “I find the first defendant, Dr Doyin Okupe, guilty on counts 34, 35, 36 to 59”.
The court then pronounced a sentence of two years imprisonment with an option of a fine of N500,000 which is to run consecutively on each count while the sentence is to run concurrently.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time that Okupe would land into trouble over money laundering.
In January 2019, Okupe alongside two companies – Value Trust Investment Ltd and Abrahams Telecoms Ltd, were arraigned by EFCC over an alleged fraud of N702 million. He was subsequently charged with 59 counts on “money laundering and criminal diversion of funds” from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), headed by Sambo Dasuki.
