{"id":233125,"date":"2026-05-13T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-defense-moves-to-overturn-split-verdict-in-explosive-u-s-6-2-million-economic-sabotage-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:03:56","slug":"liberia-defense-moves-to-overturn-split-verdict-in-explosive-u-s-6-2-million-economic-sabotage-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-defense-moves-to-overturn-split-verdict-in-explosive-u-s-6-2-million-economic-sabotage-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Defense Moves to Overturn Split Verdict in Explosive U.S.$6.2 Million Economic Sabotage Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Monrovia \u2014 Liberia&#8217;s most politically explosive corruption prosecution in recent years is facing a dramatic legal unraveling, as defense lawyers for former Acting Justice Minister Cllr. Nyenati Tuan and former National Security Advisor Jefferson S. Karmoh push to overturn guilty verdicts handed down in the controversial US$6.2 million economic sabotage case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In a Motion for New Trial filed before Criminal Court &#8220;C,&#8221; defense attorneys argued that the jury&#8217;s split verdict is legally contradictory&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130327.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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 Liberia&#8217;s most politically explosive corruption prosecution in recent years is facing a dramatic legal unraveling, as defense lawyers for former Acting Justice Minister Cllr. Nyenati Tuan and former National Security Advisor Jefferson S. Karmoh push to overturn guilty verdicts handed down in the controversial US$6.2 million economic sabotage case. In a Motion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233126,"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":[258,256,8027,3576,5393,4712,1107,5118,6858,257,21344,2435,254,7817,6564,54383,13739],"class_list":["post-233125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defense","tag-economic","tag-explosive","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-million","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-overturn","tag-sabotage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-split","tag-trial","tag-u-s-6-2","tag-verdict"],"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\/233125","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=233125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}