Monrovia — Three former officials of the George Manneh Weah Government, recently imprisoned at the Monrovia Central Prison have been released on bail.
By Willie Tokpah
Resident Circuit Court Judge, Roosevelt Willie on Friday, August 2, granted the defendants their bonds after an intervention by their lawyers.
Former Solicitor General, Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, the former FIU Comptroller D. Moses P. Cooper, Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah, former Director General of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), Stanley Ford, and Jefferson Karmoh, former National Security Advisor to President George Weah were issued a writ of arrest for charges of Economic Sabotage, Theft, and/or Illegal Disbursementand Expenditure of Public Money, Theft of Property, Criminal Facilitationand Criminal Conspiracy based upon a complaint by the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice and the Liberia Anti-CorruptionCommission (LACC).
It’s alleged that in September of the same year, the defendants all carried out their scheme under the pretense of discharging their duties as officials of the Joint Security of Liberia, unauthorizedly, criminally, willfully, illegally, knowingly, and maliciously,with the intent of diverting said amount for their use and benefit, and did conspire, collude, and made to betransferred, from the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) to the operationalaccounts of thin e FIA the amounts of L$l,055, 1 52,540.00 and in the tone of US$500,000.00. (USD Five Hundreds Thousands).
They were arrested on Monday, July 29, following a writ of arrest from the court and sent to prison after failing to present a criminal appearance bond.
Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah and former Director General of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), Stanley Ford are yet to to be seen since the arrest warrant was issued, until a criminal insurance bond was filed by legal counsel representing all of the defendants.
FrontPageAfrica has gathered gathered that the defendants managed to obtain a criminal insurance bond from the Sky International Insurance Company in Monrovia, a tone of US$12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million United States Dollars).
Prior to granting said bond, FrontPageAfrica gathered that the Legal Advisor to President Joseph Nyumah Boakai reportedly threatened Judges against signing the bond of the former officials .
