–Case Continues Tomorrow
IPNEWS: In the alleged Hundred Million (US$100 M) Drug Trafficking Case, the State on Thursday, November 10, 2022, produced two witnesses Moses Meah the Deputy Chief Investigator of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), and Alphonso Ramsey at the Monrovia City Court of Jomah Jallah at the Temple of Justice.
State first witness identified as Moses Meah, Deputy Chief Investigator of LDEA informed the court that on October 1, 2022, they received a tipoff, of a narcotics substance believed to be cocaine with a street value of Hundred Million United States Dollars around the Topoe Village, along the Japanese Freeway in Gardnersville.
Witness Meah said a team of LDEA officers arrived on the same at the SONIT Liberia Incorporated Company and met Makki Ahmed Issam (defendant) who informed Malam Conte and Oliver Zayzay that the was a problem on the ground and they should find their way out of the country.
He said the other defendants escaped to the Liberia-Sierra Leone border, revealing that at the time the two defendants arrived at the border, the border was closed, and they later took a canoe to cross over into Sierra Leone.
According to him, after they crossed into Sierra Leone, they were later turned over to the government of Liberia.
The defendants were returned to the Monrovia Central Prison following the first State witness testimony. They are expected to re-appear in court on tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15, 2022, in continuation of the case.
It can recall the defendants due to their alleged connection with narcotics drugs which came into the Country through the Freeport of Monrovia in a container of Frozen Pig Feet were charged for unlicensed importation of controlled drugs substances unlicensed possession of controlled drugs or substance drugs Trafficking, Money Laundering, Criminal Conspiracy and Criminal facilitation, which contravened Chapter 14, sections 14.101, 107 and 111 chapter 10.2 and 10.4 respectively, of the new penal code of Liberia.
They were earlier busted by Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) agents, Liberia National Police (LNP), and United States Drug Enforcement Agents recently in Monrovia.
However, Last Friday, November 4, 2022, defendants Makki Ahmed Issam, Malam Conte, Adulai Dibril Dialo, and Oliver Zayzay were served with the writ of arrest by court officers immediately after the hearing of a writ of habeas corpus that was filed before Judge Roosevelt Willie of the Criminal Court “A” where a petition was filed by the defense Lawyers. By Jacqueline Dennis
