MONROVIA — Chief Justice Yarmie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. has called for the abolition of Liberia’s trial jury system over widespread allegations of jury tampering, dr…
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Kemayah, Sirleaf Found Guilty in All Counts in Saudi Rice Case
MONROVIA — Former Foreign Affairs Minister D. Maxwell Saah Kemayah and other former senior government officials, including former Internal Affairs Minister Varn…
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Indictment: Jewel Howard-Taylor Allegedly Sought Cash From Suspected Drug Network, Discussed Political Financing
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor allegedly maintained financial contacts with individuals prosecutors identify as members of an internationa…
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GTMS Liberia Disowns Two Appointments, Threatens Legal Action Over Alleged Unauthorized Representation
MONROVIA — Global Tracking & Maritime Solutions Liberia Inc. has disowned the purported appointments of Presley S. Tenwah and Elvis D. Johnson to senior positio…
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Former INCHR Chair Dempster Brown Arrested Over Alleged Forgery
MONROVIA— Former Independent National Commission on Human Rights Chairperson Cllr. T. Dempster Brown was arrested Tuesday after the Monrovia City Court issued a…
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Liberia: Two Charged Over Alleged Fake WAEC Certificates in LNP Bid
MONROVIA – Police have charged two men with forgery and criminal conspiracy, accusing them of trying to join the Liberia National Police with fake high school d…
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Liberia: Former Police Training Chief Charged in US$88,000 Scam
MONROVIA – Police have charged the former head of the Liberia National Police Training Academy with taking US$88,000 in cash and goods from a businessman by pro…
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Saudi Rice Trial: Bility Shows Jury 10 Gate Passes for Gbarnga Rice
Monrovia – The 5,000 bags of Saudi-donated rice that prosecutors say never reached Gbarnga left the General Services Agency warehouse on 10 signed gate passes,…
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Liberia: LDEA Airport Agents Get Maximum 20-Year Sentences for Cocaine Trafficking
KAKATA, Margibi County – Two Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency officers assigned to Roberts International Airport were sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison, th…
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Liberia: Court Upholds Finda Bundoo’s US$8M Bond
MONROVIA – Former Executive Mansion Chief of Protocol Nora Finda Bundoo no longer has to post an additional US$1.34 million in security after Criminal Court ‘C’…
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MONROVIA – The former head of the National Disaster Management Agency told a jury he authorized the distribution of 185 bags of Saudi-donated rice to agency emp…
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Liberia: Bon Jallah Rape Trial Paused as Defense Seeks Acquittal
MONROVIA – The rape trial of former National Security Agency operative Peter Bon Jallah is on hold after his lawyers asked Criminal Court ‘E’ to acquit him, arg…
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Court Denies Jewel Howard-Taylor Bail, Cites Alleged Drug-Related Conduct Through August 2026
MONROVIA — Criminal Court “C” has denied former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s motion to be admitted to bail, ruling that allegations of her continued inv…
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Liberia: Court Orders NOCAL, Finance Ministry Closed Over Debt
MONROVIA – The Commercial Court on Wednesday ordered the immediate closure and sealing of the National Oil Company of Liberia and the Ministry of Finance and De…
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Liberia: FC Fassell’s Cassell Kuoh Sued for US$50K Over Alleged Loan Default
MONROVIA — Anthony Cassell Kuoh, head of FC Fassell, faces a debt action for US$50,000 after allegedly missing the first payment under a repayment schedule he s…
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Liberia: Ex-Police Crime Chief Gets Bond in US$10K Cocaine Bribery Case
MONROVIA — The former head of the Liberia National Police’s Crime Services Department will answer bribery and obstruction charges from outside a cell, after a M…
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Police Charge Ex-Crime Services Chief Johnny Dean With Bribery
MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police has charged the former head of its criminal investigations arm with taking US$10,000 to compromise a US$317 million drug…
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Liberia: Stephanie Kpoto Sues Martin Kollie for US$500,000 Over Facebook Posts
MONROVIA — Verity News publisher Martin K. N. Kollie has until Sept. 13 to answer a US$500,000 defamation claim over Facebook posts that businesswoman Stephanie…
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Taylor Lawyers Drop Preliminary Examination Bid As State Presses Cartel Case
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s lawyers have abandoned their request for a preliminary examination, clearing the way for the state’s coca…
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Liberia: Court Frees Ex-Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor from Prison to Home Detention
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor will leave the Monrovia Central Prison for guarded detention at her Sinkor residence after Criminal Court “…
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Witness Alleges Drug Network Sought Howard-Taylor’s Protection, Discussed Plot to Kill Weah
MONROVIA — An alleged transnational cocaine network sought political protection from then-Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor and discussed a plot to assassinate…
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Liberia: Private Bar Owner Offered LDEA Agents US$100K, Indictment Says
MONROVIA – A grand jury has charged that George Wah Harria, alias Leroy Harris, owner of Private Bar Entertainment Center at Joe Bar in Paynesville, offered US$…
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Liberia: Court Summons Rwandan Expert in Peter Bon Jallah Rape Trial
MONROVIA – A forensic examiner from Kigali has been ordered to appear in Monrovia to testify against a former National Security Agency official accused of rapin…
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Third Bond, Third Setback: Court Gives Bundoo’s Surety 30 Days to Find US$1.34m
MONROVIA — Nora Finda Bundoo’s sureties have until Oct. 1 to produce another US$1,342,280, after Criminal Court ‘C’ ruled Tuesday that the third bond filed for…