The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has confirmed that the former director general of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe was arrested and handed over to it by the operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.
In a statement by the commissioner’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the Department of State Services, DSS, informed the Commission of the interception of Dr. Doyin Okupe, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
Mr Uwujaren said the Service acted on a Watch-list request issued on July 18, 2016, over six years before his recent conviction on money laundering charges by the Federal High Court, Abuja.
He said the Commission was in the process of formally lifting the watch-list before his interception and will expedite action in this regard.
