By: Jackie Dennis
Two Former government officials have been placed behind bars at the Monrovia Central Prison for failure on their part to pay a Criminal appearance bond fee at the Monrovia City Court at the Temple of Justice.
On Monday, July 29, 2024, the former acting Minister for Justice Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, and D Moses P. Cooper former Comptroller of the Financial Intelligence Agency, were dragged to Court for the alleged crimes: Economic Sabotage, Misuse of Public Money, Property, or Record, Theft and /or legal disbursement and Expenditure of Public Money, Theft of Property, Criminal Facilitation, Criminal Conspiracy.
According to the writ of arrest issued in Monrovia by Magistrate L. Ben Barco of the Monrovia City Court to Captain Charles Bloyuefloh Magistrate police said “You are hereby commanded to arrest the living bodies of Samuel D. Tweah, former Minister of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, former Acting Minister of Justice, Stanley S. Ford, former Director General of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), D. Moses P. Cooper, former Comptroller of the Financial Intelligence Agency, and Jefferson Karmoh, former National Security Advisor, and forthwith bring them to the Monrovia City Court, Temple of Justice Building, Montserrado County to answer the charges of Economic Sabotage, Theft and/or Illegal Disbursement and Expenditure of Public Money, Theft of Property, Criminal Facilitation, and Criminal Conspiracy based upon the oath and complaint of the Republic of Liberia by and through the Ministry of Justice and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), Plaintiff, in which it is substantially you alleged as follows to wit.
The writ indicated “that in an elaborate scheme and conspiracy to defraud the Government of Liberia, in July 2023, Defendant conspired with Co-Defendant Stanley S.Ford, and made him a member of the National Security Council of Liberia, in total violation and contravention of the National Security Act of Liberia.”
The writ continues “Subsequently thereafter, at various times in September 2023, the Defendants, in carrying out their diabolical scheme and conspiracy and under the false pretense of discharging their duties as officials of the Joint Security of Liberia, unauthorizedly, criminally, willfully, illegally, knowingly, and maliciously, with the intent to defraud the Government of Liberia, stole and converted to their own use and benefit, and did conspire, collude, and made to be transferred, from the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) to the operational accounts of the FIA the amounts of L$1,055,152,540.00 and US$5000,000.00.
The amounts of L$I,055.145,040.00 and US$500.000.00 were subsequently withdrawn either on the same day of the transfer or a few days after, without any indication or record of how the amounts were disbursed or utilized by the Joint Security of Liberia, in complete and total Violations of the New Penal Law of Liberia.
The alleged act of the Defendants being unlawful wicked, illegal, and intentional is a violation of the New Pen Law of Liberia. The defendants await trial.
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