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Drug and Crime

Liberia: Koijee Warns Boakai Against ‘History’s Warning’ as Drug Probe Intensifies

Monrovia — Former Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson Koijee has sharply criticized President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s recent expression of confidence in Liberia’s security leadership, warning...

Liberia: Former Liberian VP Camp Says Government Officials Are Cooking Up Fake AI Evidence in Drug Case

Liberia has charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering, and related offenses tied to a transnational narcotics probe, after stopping...

THE National Inter-Ministerial Drug Committee(NIDC): 1995–1998, A Precursor to DEA: Liberia’s Pre-LDEA National Drug-Control Institution and Its International Connections (Part Two)

1. The NIDC was not simply an informal committee The strongest new evidence of the history and progress of Liberia efforts in fighting drugs and...

Liberia: Recording Tied to 2022 Dubai Meeting Now at Center of $317M Case, as Howard-Taylor Faces Charges, Fate of Police, Other Officials tied to...

A wired phone call from a fugitive American informant is what investigators say sealed the case against Jewel Howard-Taylor — pulling Liberia's former First...

BREAKING: Ex-VP Jewel Howard Taylor Says She’s “Under Arrest,” Amid Widening Drug Probe

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor says she has been told she is under arrest, according to a message she sent as...

Liberia: Ex- VPJewel Howard Taylor Taken Into Custody as Person of Interest in US$19M Cocaine Probe

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been taken into custody as a person of interest in connection with Liberia’s US$19 million...

Liberia’s Cocaine Probe Sparks War of Words Between Elected and Appointed Officials

Monrovia — Liberia’s investigation into the more than US$337 million cocaine seizures has triggered an increasingly bitter war of words between elected officials and presidential...

Liberia: Police Chief Demands Senator Konneh “Show the Evidence” in Cocaine Cartel Claims

MONROVIA — A pointed letter from Liberia’s top police official to Sen. Amara Konneh has escalated tensions between law enforcement and the legislature over...