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A son of former Liberian leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been charged in connection with the unlawful overprinting of local currency worth millions of U.S. dollars.
Charles Sirleaf, alongside another colleague at Liberia’s Central Bank, was arrested on Thursday following a probe into reports of missing banknotes and alleged malpractices at the bank.
Sirleaf, who was deputy governor of the central bank, is suspected of pocketing some of the proceeds in 2016 to 2018, reports the BBC.
A charge sheet cited by the Associated Press states that Sirleaf, and three other bank officials, were on Monday charged with economic sabotage, the misuse of public money and criminal conspiracy.
The accused, who are yet to comment on the development, have been taken to Monrovia Central Prison pending their court appearance.
The 61-year-old Sirleaf and his colleagues were detained last week just hours after independent U.S. investigators released a report into the missing millions.
Last October, scores of protestors hit the streets of Monrovia following rumours of disappearanceof $100 million (about $15 billion Liberian dollars) worth of newly printed banknotes destined for the central bank.
The cash was said to have been shipped from Sweden late 2017, in the midst of Liberia’s elections to choose a successor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The incident sparked off blame games and travel bans, as well as, public outrage in one of the poorest countries in the world. Critics of the government pointed accusing fingers at President George Weah for the missing money while others blamed the former leader, Sirleaf.
Since assuming office, corruption has also been a hard nut to crack for President Weah. Following protests about the alleged missing cash, U.S. then intervened at the request of the Liberian government and civil society groups, and sponsored an inquiry by Kroll Associates, an investigative auditing firm.
Kroll said contrary to local reports that a container of banknotes went missing, its investigations “found no information to support allegation 📎 🤔COMMENT BELOW... CRITIC ALSO 🖋️ 📜 🗺️ 😂 ... spill TEA ☕ Easy on Shade 💣 COMMENT BELOW... CRITIC ALSO 🇳🇬 #jaiyeorie 🗺️
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