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Lewis Brown
Monie Captan
George Haddad |
A Charles Taylor confidante who rose from
student activist to a
wealthy man, owning one
of the prominent buildings in Monrovia. He
was appointed foreign minister during Taylor's last
hour following the absence of Monis Captan,
the Syrian-Liberian
who served as Taylor's
minister from 1997 to 2003.
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Taylor's foreign minister who also rose to
wealth via his
association with the exiled
warlord. He served as "advisor" in various
rebel factions before joining Taylor. He received
financial support
from the Amrican Endowment for for Democracy, enabling him to publish a
newpaperin Monrovia that openly backed the armed factions.
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Received Monopoly for Rice Imports for $10m
to Taylor up front, amongst other deals..Owner of Bridgeway
was authorized by the former
President to charge the “free”rice to
the Ministry of Finance, for which Bridgeway obtained “noncashrevenuecertificates”. |
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Talal
Nassereddine (better known in Liberia as Talal Eldine)
|
"....Collected budgetaryand extrabudgetary
revenues, forced themselves into partnerships
of privatecorporations
on Taylor’s behalf and dispersed collected funds as directed by
Taylor..." |
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Ghassan Basma and Jamal
Basma |
In charge of Charles Taylor's private
entity
which guaranteed the indicted war criminal
$3 per gallon for
fuel...The Basma family had secured the exclusive five-year supply
agreement in September 1998
against a
$10 million loan payment in goods, such as cars andearth-moving
equipment, to Taylor
The payment was entered into the governmentaccounts as a prepaid tax.
Currently, the outstanding debt is
approximately $2 million. In otherwords,
the $10 million “loan” to
Taylor, which secured
the Basma family thelucrative fuel import
contract, was allowed to be recorded as expenditure againsttaxes due
to the
Government.
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Belle Dunbar
|
A a Liberian Member of the Basma Team |
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Abbas Fawaz |
MarylandWood Processing IndustriesThe
surplus imports of approximately 2,500 bags
were sold by MWPIowner
Abbas Fawaz to the
local population and to feed ATU and SSS
soldiersfrequently stationed at his logging
camps. The Fawaz
side-trade netted additionalgains of up to $10,000 per month. In
return, Mr. Fawaz, through his bank accountsin Switzerland and
France, took care of expenses
that Taylor incurred during histrips
to Europe. |
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Elias Selebie |
The Chairman of the Central Bank, who was
already in a safehaven in Ghana, decided to
return to Liberia to
supervise the issuance
of the loan. Atotal of 47 million Liberian
dollars
was converted to US$ 700,000 and paid out incash to
officials of the Government. There are strong indications that the
entire sumwas surrendered to Taylor and that he took it to his exile
in Nigeria. |
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Moses Blah |
Although the Panel was able to investigate
in Liberia for only a very shorttime, witnesses interviewed
confirmed that diversion of government revenuescontinues under the
Government
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|
Charles Bright |
...Neither the
current Minister of Finance, nor hispredecessor, were
willing to talk to the
Panel |
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Nathaniel Barnes |
"..Neither the
current Minister of Finance, nor hispredecessor, were
willing to talk to the
Panel |
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Juanita Neal |
A select few
and trusted individuals, among
them the former Deputy |
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Kadiyatu Dara |
Each month, Kadiyatu Dara collected
additional taxes that amounted tobetween $300,000 and $600,000 in
cash directly from the Basma
operation |
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Benoni W. Urey |
(Former head of the Maritime Bureau)
"...Hasadmitted that even he does not know the (Marime) registry’s
real value... |
