The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 14, 2019 arraigned Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on a 59-count charge bordering on “money laundering and criminal diversion of funds” to the tune of N702 million.
Okupe was brought before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court, Maitama, along with two companies, Value Trust Investment Ltd. and Abrahams Telecoms Ltd allegedly involved in the commission of the fraud.
Okupe, being the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan from July 2012 to May 2015, was alleged to be the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, and a signatory to the bank account of Abrahams Telecoms Ltd.
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