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–<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n The court also ordered each defendant to pay US$10,000 in restitution, bringing the combined amount to US$50,000.<\/p>\n The convicted officials are Moses Wogbeh, former managing director of the Forestry Development…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> – 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242558,"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":[258,256,6683,6185,14532,14611,5696,10639,4712,1107,5118,257,6651,6186,254,9498,50866],"class_list":["post-242557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-court","tag-fda","tag-forestry","tag-jailed","tag-lands","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-million","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-orders","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-u-s-6"],"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\/242557","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=242557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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