Liberia: Why Sirleaf, Weeks Others Arrested in Connection with ‘Missing’ Billions of Liberian DollarsMONROVIA – Five officials of the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) including the former Governor, Milton Weeks, current Deputy Governor for Operations, Charles Sirleaf Hagba Dorbor, director of banking, Richard H. Walker and Joseph Dennis were found liable of conniving to conceal the true nature of the total and actual amount of Liberian dollar banknotes printed and received by the CBL. At least three of the five have been arrested and undergoing police investigation with the Liberia National Police. The PIT recommended that they be charged and prosecuted for criminal conspiracy, criminal facilitation, tampering with public records and accounting. The Government of Liberia incurred an extra printing cost of US$835,367.78. The PIT also recommended prosecution for CRANE AB.

Source: Front Page Africa March 01, 2019 23:26 UTC