The Federal High Court in Abuja today has sentenced a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, to two years imprisonment for breaching the Money Laundering Act.
Okupe is the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party (LP).
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu earlier convicted Okupe on 26 of the 59 counts contained in the charge on which he and two others were tried.
She sentenced him to two years per count, which are to run concurrently.
Alternatively, Justice Ojukwu gave Okupe an option of a fine of N500,000 per count, amounting to N13million.
The judge gave Okupe up to 4:30 pm today to pay the fine, failing which he should be taken to prison.
Justice Ojukwu convicted Okupe on counts 34 to 59 which deal with breach of the Money Laundering Act, in which he was found to have received cash payments above N5million on each transaction from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) under Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
The judge, however, found him and the two firms charged with him – Value Trust Investment Ltd and Abrahams Telecoms Ltd – not guilty in relation to counts 1 to 33 bordering on many laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption.
Justice Ojukwu held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to prove the relevant elements of the offences contained in counts 1 to 33.
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