The Federal High Court in Abuja, convicted a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisah Metuh, and his firm, Destra Investments Limited, of the first of the seven counts instituted against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Ruling on the first count in his judgement, Justice Okon Abang ruled that a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, unlawfully transferred the sum of 400 million naira to the defendants in November 2014.
The judge ruled that Metuh and his firm reasonably ought to have known that the sum of 400 million naira paid to them formed part of the proceeds of the unlawful activity of the former National Security Adviser because they had no form of a contractual relationship with the office of national security adviser.
He dismissed the contention of the defence who argued that the defendants could not be convicted for the money laundering offence because Dasuki, who is currently being prosecuted, had yet to be convicted for the predicate offence of breach of trust and corruption.
