Liberia Charges Former Vice President with Drug Trafficking and Other Offenses
The case follows Liberia’s largest-ever drug seizure, worth about $336 million, and includes charges against three foreigners in absentia, officials said.
- Former Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been charged with drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged international narcotics network.
- Authorities stopped Howard-Taylor at Roberts International Airport as she attempted to leave Liberia and transferred her to police headquarters following the announcement of the charges.
- Liberia has also accused three foreign nationals—two Croatians and one Ukrainian—of involvement in the alleged network and said it would seek their arrests through domestic and international channels.
- The investigation comes shortly after Liberia announced its largest-ever cocaine seizure, valued by authorities at roughly $336 million, although officials said that case is separate from the investigation involving Howard-Taylor.
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In Liberia, former vice-president Jewel Howard Taylor charged with his alleged links to an "international drug trafficking network." The arrest of the wife of former Liberian president and warlord Charles Taylor was announced Wednesday, August 19 by the Minister of Justice. An announcement that occurs less than a month after a record seizure of cocaine, not far from the capital Monrovia.
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Ex-Liberian vice president charged with drug trafficking
The charges against Jewel Howard-Taylor, two Croatian nationals, and a Ukrainian follow an investigation into an alleged narcotics network, the Justice Ministry has said Former Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been charged with drug trafficking, money laundering, and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network, the authorities have...
Former Liberian vice president charged in transnational drug probe
Liberia has charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering and related offences in an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network.
Liberia charges former vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor in drug trafficking probe
Monrovia. Liberia has charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offences as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational...
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