Monrovia – A Liberian businesswoman is seeking for the extradition of a Korean businessman Maengsik Kim, who faces charges of ‘theft and misapplication of entrusted property’ at a lower court in the country.
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Roseline Giah told FrontPageAfrica Tuesday, April 30, at the Temple of Justice that she had sued Maengsik Kim at the Brewerville Magisterial Court on March 21, 2019. He was subsequently charged for allegedly using the name of her company Global Ocean Fisheries Corporation (GCFC) to ship three 40-foot containers of fish to Korea at the cost of US$300,000, which the GCFC could have benefitted 10 percent share at the cost of US$30,000 but was allegedly robbed of its share.
Giah disclosed that she got to know Kim in 2017 when he approached her to work with her company to do fish business. According to her, she hurriedly prepared the company documents and passed them over to the Korean businessman to do the fish business based on the confident reposed in him.
She claimed that Kim used the name of GCFC allegedly under dubious means without any approval from the management of Ocean Fisheries Corporation and when his dubious deal was unearthed during the shipment, the Korean security blockaded the Ocean Fisheries Corporation from doing fishing business in Korea hereby causing the company economic hardship.
Giah said when she realized that the Korean businessman was involved in this alleged dubious act, she took him to the Brewerville Magisterial Court where he was charged by Magistrate James Dudu but he secured a US$200,000 insurance bond from the Accident and Casualty Insurance Company to appear at a later date but to her upmost surprise she got to realize that the Korean businessman had left the country while on the bond.
“I took this man to court for his dubious act and was placed on bond for us to hear the case and while on bond he left the country without the court informing me; this is injustice. All I want is to bring him back to face justice,” Giah added.
According to Giah, she has filed a formal complaint to the Criminal Court’B” at the Temple of Justice against Stipendiary Magistrate James Dudu in the poor manner in which he allegedly handled her case.
She told this newspaper that based on her complaint, the Judge of the Criminal Court “B” Koiboi Nuta has summoned both Magistrate Dudu and her to appear for a hearing on next Tuesday, May 7, 2019.
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