Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Former National Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, to Seven Years in Jail.
He is also mandated to pay N376 Million to the Federal government and his company, Destra Investment Limited, is forfeited to the Federal government.
Olisa Metuh was paraded before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday where he was found guilty of all 7 charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission N400 million.
Metuh was charged alongside his company, Destra Investment limited.
The court ruled that Metuh ought to know the money is a proceed of money laundering.
Reacting to the claims by the Defence Counsel that former, NSA Sambo Dasuki had not been convicted and that the money received by Metuh may not be the proceed of fraud, the Presiding Judge, Justice Abang held that Sambo Dasuki need not to be convicted to show that the money paid to the defendant was proceeds from an unlawful Act.
He said the defendant and the office of the NSA had no contract but yet he received the payment of N400m.
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