Monrovia, Liberia – In order to defend the US$8 million bond that the former Finance Minister and his legal team filed, Samuel D. Tweah and other defendants are scheduled to go on trial in Criminal Court “C” at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia around 2:00 PM tomorrow.
For economic sabotage, money laundering, criminal facilitation, theft, illegal fund disbursement, criminal conspiracy, and misappropriation of public funds, the Government of Liberia is prosecuting former Finance Minister Cllr. Nyanti Tuan, former acting Minister of Justice, Stanley A. Ford, former Director General, Financial Intelligence, D. Moses P. Cooper, former Financial Intelligence Comptroller, and Jefferson Karmon, former National Security Advisor to the President.
Daniel O. Sindo, Deputy Minister for Press and Public Affairs, stated during the MICAT regular press briefing at the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, stated that the trial will resume on the bond’s justification because it seems that the bond is not time-tested because the property in question is not task-complacence consistent with the Liberia revenue code.
He claims that the owner of the property that provided the bail would also be questioned by government attorneys during the trial. According to Deputy Minister Sindo, the defendants seem to be in danger based on the specialists’ interpretation of the bond.
It can be recalled, Judge A. Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court “A” initially scheduled the hearing for Thursday, November 14, 2024 to address the government’s objection to Tweah’s US$8 million criminal appearance bond.
The hearing will consider the prosecution’s motion of exceptions and a motion for justification of sureties, following initial procedural delays.
