{"id":199356,"date":"2025-06-02T19:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-investigates-lebanese-over-alleged-crimes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:45:55","slug":"liberia-govt-investigates-lebanese-over-alleged-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-investigates-lebanese-over-alleged-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt Investigates Lebanese Over Alleged Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">MONROVIA \u2014 Multiple government agencies are investigating a Lebanese businessman for allegedly committing forestry, financial, and immigration crimes. The news comes after a DayLight <a href=\"https:\/\/thedaylight.org\/2025\/05\/25\/lebanese-smuggles-timber-and-wins-us500k-world-bank-bid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investigation found<\/a> that Moussa Abdul Karim, the owner of several companies, smuggled timber, evaded taxes, and declared multiple nationalities, winning a World Bank contract worth nearly half a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Liberia National Police, the Liberia Immigration Service, the Liberia Revenue Authority, the Ministry&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA \u2014 Multiple government agencies are investigating a Lebanese businessman for allegedly committing forestry, financial, and immigration crimes. The news comes after a DayLight investigation found that Moussa Abdul Karim, the owner of several companies, smuggled timber, evaded taxes, and declared multiple nationalities, winning a World Bank contract worth nearly half a million dollars. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4305,1922,4357,15596,10207,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-199356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-crimes","tag-govt","tag-investigates","tag-lebanese","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}