The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP to 7 years in prison.
Delivering the judgement on Tuesday, Justice Okon Abang found him and his company, Destra Investment Ltd guilty of charges of money laundering.
The EFCC had charged Metuh with seven counts of money laundering and criminal diversion of funds.
The judgement is following a 4 year protracted trial of Metuh.
Delivering his judgement, Justice Abang sentenced Metuh to seven years imprisonment in respect to Counts One to Three.
On Count Four, the former PDP spokesman was sentenced to five years while he got seven, three and seven years for Counts Five, Six, and Seven years respectively.
He, however, held that all the sentences should run concurrently, with effect from February 25, 2020.
The trial judge also sentenced Destra Investment to pay a fine of N25 million with respect to Counts Five and Six, while Metuh was also ordered to pay a fine of N375 million.
Justice Abang further ordered that the account of Dextra Investment should be forfeited to the Federal Government and the company be dissolved.
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