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Liberia formally Indicts 12 in Record $317.68M Cocaine Case, Alleging a Smuggling Scheme that Reaches Back to 2024 but Big Names Noticeably Missing

Monrovia — Liberia’s record US$317.68 million cocaine case has moved from allegation to formal charge. A writ of arrest and police charge sheet filed at the Paynesville City Magisterial Court, before Stipendiary Magistrate William G. Saygah, names twelve defendants and lays out — in more detail than has previously been public — the government’s account of how the operation is alleged to have worked.

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