Liberia: Supreme Court Orders Five Former FDA, Lands Officials Jailed in U.S.$6 Million Forestry Case

– Liberia’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered five former forestry and lands officials imprisoned for one year each after upholding their economic sabotage convictions in a long-running case involving 61 illegal forestry permits that prosecutors said cost the government about US$6 million.

The court also ordered each defendant to pay US$10,000 in restitution, bringing the combined amount to US$50,000.

The convicted officials are Moses Wogbeh, former managing director of the Forestry Development…