{"id":242648,"date":"2026-08-30T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-orders-ecobank-kollie-and-williams-to-pay-u-s-350000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:13:05","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-orders-ecobank-kollie-and-williams-to-pay-u-s-350000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-orders-ecobank-kollie-and-williams-to-pay-u-s-350000\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Orders Ecobank, Kollie and Williams to Pay U.S.$350,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Liberia&#8217;s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Ecobank Liberia, Martin K.N. Kollie and Alex Williams to pay a former government official a combined US$350,000, ruling that the bank failed in its duty to protect confidential customer information and that the resulting conduct caused him harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The court awarded US$250,000 in general damages against Ecobank and US$50,000 each against Kollie and Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The judgment reversed a ruling by the Civil Law Court against Wilmot Smith, a former deputy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280632.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>&#8211; Liberia&#8217;s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Ecobank Liberia, Martin K.N. Kollie and Alex Williams to pay a former government official a combined US$350,000, ruling that the bank failed in its duty to protect confidential customer information and that the resulting conduct caused him harm. The court awarded US$250,000 in general damages against Ecobank and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242649,"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":[258,256,6185,14221,44331,4712,1107,257,6186,9105,254,9498,47483,24290],"class_list":["post-242648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-ecobank","tag-kollie","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-u-s-350000","tag-williams"],"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\/242648","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=242648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}