The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted Dr. Doyin Okupe for violating the Money Laundering Act.
Okupe was Senior Special Assistant, SSA, on Media to former president, Goodluck Jonathan, and at present, the Director General of Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, LP.
In a verdict on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu found Okupe guilty of contravening sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act, for accepting cash payments without going through financial institution.
The cash which was said to have been received from the Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, to President Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retired) while in office, was in excess of the threshold allowed under the Act.
It was said to be hundreds of millions.
