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Liberia: Before His Dismissal, Former RIA Deputy Sought Help for Mysterious Vessel He Claimed Was in “Distress”

Monrovia – Two and a half weeks before his name became public as one of the officials swept up in Liberia’s cocaine purge, Mark Egon Kuiah put his signature on a letter that reads, in hindsight, like the opening scene of the story that followed. Dated July 13 and addressed to the administration of the Liberia Maritime Authority, it was written not in his capacity as an airport operations deputy but as “registered agent” for a company called Madris Group of Companies Incorporated — a role FrontPageAfrica had not previously known him to hold.

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