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Liberian court orders 30 arrests over missing $104 million

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Former bank governor Milton Weeks and Charles Sirleaf are among more than 30 former central bank officials being sought for arrest in connection with $104 million that went missing.

A Liberian court issued the arrest warrants in a court document released on Friday.

There was no immediate comment on Friday from Weeks, Charles Sirleaf or any of the other people named on the list.

Weeks has previously admitted he had nothing to do with the missing cash and is cooperating with investigators. Reuters has not been able to reach Charles Sirleaf or his mother, former Liberia president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for comment.

The court said it had information that the named individuals planned to leave Liberia and ordered that they “be brought before this Honourable Court to answer to criminal charges levied against them by the Republic of Liberia”. The document did not say what charges they would face.

The government said last week that the Liberian dollars, newly printed abroad, had been unaccounted for since arriving at port in November 2017 and August of this year.

The scandal has saddled President George Weah with his biggest political crisis since he took office in January and drew thousands of protesters into the streets of the capital Monrovia on Monday.

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