Court convicts Labour Party campaign DG for breaching Money Laundering Act
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Monday convicted former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and the Director General of Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party (LP), Doyin Okupe, over breaching of Money Laundering Act.
In a judgment passed by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, Okupe was guilty of contravening sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act, for accepting cash payments without going through financial institution, in excess of the threshold allowed under the Act.
It could be recalled that Okupe was said to have received hundreds of millions in cash from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) while Col. Sambo Dasuki (retired) was in office.
Justice Ojukwu has stood down proceedings till 1:45pm for Okupe to exercise his right under Section 310 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) to call witnesses to testify about his character, before the court could proceed to pronounce sentence on the convict.
