Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Metuh Closes Defence in N400m Money Laundering Trial

Former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, on Wednesday October 2, 2019, closed argument in his ongoing trial before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja. He had called 15 witnesses to prove his innocence of the money laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC is prosecuting Metuh alongside his company, Destra Investment Limited, on seven-count charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N400 million(Four Hundred Million Naira), which he received from the Offic…