Gossip Liberia

Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been arrested and charged in connection with Liberia’s ongoing investigation into an alleged US$336 million cocaine trafficking network. Justice Minister says Taylor faces multiple narcotics-related and money laundering charges, while three foreign nationals have been charged in absentia and former NSA Deputy Director Joseph Gerald Smith has been summoned for questioning.

Jury selection has begun in Liberia’s Criminal Court “C” in the trial of 13 former government officials accused of diverting 29,412 bags of humanitarian rice donated by Saudi Arabia for disaster victims.