After the Justice in chambers at the Supreme Court declined to issue the writ of certiorari prayed for by government lawyers, Criminal Court “C” at the Temple of Justice has set today, Wednesday, December 18,2024, for the appearance of defendant Samuel D. Tweah and others in court to answer to their alleged corruption allegations.
The court set December 4,2024, as the date for the commencement of the case but government’s lawyers filed a writ of certiorari against Judge A. Blamo Dixon and defendant Tweah for what they referred to as Defective bail bond.
Other defendants are Nyanti Tuan; Moses Cooper; Stanley Ford and Jefferson Karmoh.
Tweah and other officials of the CDC government were indicted by the Liberian government in September of this year for allegedly stealing L$1,055,152,540 and US$500,000 during tenure at their respective positions.
Tweah and others top officials of the CDC government are expected to be arraigned in open court where they will either plead guilty or not guilty to their indictments.
The indictment comes following a complaint filed by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) through the Ministry of Justice against Tweah; Tuan, Ford, Cooper and Karmoh.
The former CDC officials were indicted for crimes of Economic Sabotage; Fraud on the Internal Revenue of Liberia Misuse of public money, property, or record; Theft and/or illegal disbursement and expenditure of public money) Theft of Property, Money Laundering, Criminal Facilitation, Criminal Conspiracy.
It can be recalled that Tuan, Cooper, Karmoh and Ford were arrested and jailed on July 29,2024 while defendant Tweah was out of the country. However, four officials were later released on bail following their detention at the Monrovia Central Prison.
