Olise Metuh Bags 39-year Jail Term for Money Laundring





Barely few minutes after he was sentenced to a total of 39 years prison terms, a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olise Metuh, has said he will seek redress at the Court of Appeal to challenge his sentencing, which will run concurrently.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday sentenced Metuh to a total of 39 years imprisonment for money laundering, but he will spend only seven years in a correctional facility since his sentencing is to run concurrently.
With his conviction, Metuh became the first official of the former ruling party to be convicted of what is widely believed to be campaign finance related offences.
In the trial that began four years ago, Metuh and his company, Dextra Investment Limited, were arraigned on a seven-count criminal charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N400 million allegedly received from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
They were also accused of laundering $2 million and conversion of public funds into private usage.
But the former PDP spokesman denied the allegations, saying the funds were for a national assignment that the then President Goodluck Jonathan asked him to execute.
However, delivering judgment in the case, Justice Abang held that the prosecution was able to establish the ingredients of guilt in all the seven-count criminal charge against Metuh and his company.


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