Olisa Metuh Jailed 7 Years for Fraud

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A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh to seven years imprisonment concurrently on seven count charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Delivering judgment in the charges of N400 million money laundering against Metuh, Justice Okon Abang ordered Metuh to pay the sum of N366 million to the federal government.

He also ordered Metuh’s company, Destra Investment Limited, to pay a fine of N25 million.

He equally ordered the company to be wound up.

“From the facts placed before me and I have reviewed, convict planted thorns and cannot expect to gather flowers,” he said.

The judge said Metuh was too proud and refused to settle the case with EFCC even when confronted with the N50 million he transfered to his wife, which ought to have made him sober and remorseful.

Justice Abang had earlier convicted Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Ltd on the seven-count charges filed by the EFCC against him over the receipt of N400m from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).