DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, former Labour Party Presidential campaign DG

The Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested the immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe.

It was gathered that Okupe was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, while on his way to London, the United Kingdom.

One of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye who spoke to Vanguard on the subject matter, on Thursday, said the DSS asked him to provide court processes where he paid the fine option following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja on December 2022 convicted Doyin Okupe, for allegedly breaching the Money Laundering Act.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu found Okupe guilty of contravening sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act, for accepting cash payments without going through financial institution, in excess of the threshold allowed under the Act.

Okupe was said to have received hundreds of millions in cash from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) while Col. Sambo Dasuki (retired) was in office.