Liberia: Ex-Finance Minister Accuses Vice President of Ordering Judge to Overturn His Corruption Acquittal

MONROVIA – Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has accused Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung of instructing Criminal Court ‘C’ Judge Ousman F. Feika to overturn his May 8 jury acquittal in the US$6.2 million economic sabotage case, a charge that lands on the eve of Judge Feika’s anticipated ruling on jury misconduct allegations and threatens to plunge one of Liberia’s most politically combustible prosecutions into open crisis.

In a lengthy Facebook post on Monday,…