MONROVIA – Former Security Advisor to President George Weah, Jefferson Karmoh, has been sent to jail by the Monrovia City Court on charges of economic sabotage. Karmoh was arrested earlier by the court, along with several other top officials of the Weah-Taylor government.
These officials include former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah, former Solicitor General of Liberia Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, former FIU (now FIA) Comptroller D. Moses P. Cooper, and former Director General of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) Stanley Ford.
They were issued a writ of arrest to face charges of economic sabotage, theft, illegal disbursement and expenditure of public money, theft of property, criminal facilitation, and criminal conspiracy based on a complaint from the government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC).
It is alleged that in July 2023, the defendants conspired with Co-Defendant Stanley Ford, making him a member of the National Security Council of Liberia, in total violation of the National Security Act of Liberia.
Subsequently, at various times in September 2023, the defendants allegedly executed their scheme under the false pretense of discharging their duties as officials of the Joint Security of Liberia. Unauthorizedly, criminally, willfully, illegally, knowingly, and maliciously, with the intent to defraud the government of Liberia, they allegedly stole and converted to their own use funds transferred from the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) to the operational accounts of the FIA, amounting to L$1,055,152,540.00 and US$500,000.00.
Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah, another defendant, is reportedly out of the country, in neighboring Cote d’Ivoire.
Karmoh is the third former official of the Weah-Taylor government to be imprisoned at the Monrovia Central Prison in a single day, on charges of economic sabotage.
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