DAILY POST recalls that Okupe was on 19 December 2023 convicted by the Federal High Court in Abuja after being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for money laundering to the tune of N700 million. The court jailed him for two years with an option of fine. Speaking on Arise TV on Tuesday, he clarified that he was never convicted of corruption as being insinuated in some quarters, alleging that some elements in the presidency were after him.
I was discharged from all 34 charges of corruption. I was discharged completely. 'What I was convicted of was money laundering which is not corruption. I was being funded under the directive of Mr President by the NSA. 'My trial was politically motivated. My arrest and prosecution by the EFCC was malicious. It was not even a prosecution but persecution. 'For you to convict someone of money laundering, there must be concealment but I have never concealed anything.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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