MONROVIA – Legal Courtroom “C” has issued arrest and search warrants for former Chief of Protocol Finda Nora Bundoo and several other of her associates following a authorities investigation into alleged illicit enrichment and suspicious actual property dealings.
The warrants have been approved by Choose Ousman F. Feika on November 5 after a grand jury indictment based mostly on findings from the Belongings Restoration and Property Retrieval Job Pressure.
In line with courtroom paperwork, prosecutors allege that Bundoo, collectively together with her daughter Anita Pamela Jallah, Chief Government Officer of the Anita Group of Firms, and Francis T. Blamo, Supervisor of Gracious Experience, led a community that acquired a number of properties and enterprise belongings believed to have been financed by means of proceeds of public corruption.
The indictment lists greater than two dozen people linked to the Anita Group community and different associated entities. The fees embody cash laundering, theft of property, misuse of public funds, prison conspiracy, forgery, and prison facilitation.
The courtroom has ordered regulation enforcement businesses to arrest all accused people and current them earlier than Legal Courtroom “C” for prosecution.
As well as, the courtroom approved search and seizure operations at a number of areas linked to the defendants. These embody Bundoo’s properties in Christopolis, Brewerville, and Rehab, Paynesville; buildings related to Francis Blamo in Marshall and Zubah City; and a residence linked to Deputy Minister for Administration Thelma E. Duncan Sawyer in Caldwell.
The warrants additionally allow the inspection and confiscation of extra residential and industrial properties in Monrovia and surrounding areas as investigators proceed tracing the sources of the alleged illicit belongings.
Regulation enforcement officers started executing the orders early Friday morning. Thelma E. Duncan Sawyer, G. Edmund Ponpon Jr., and Saah S. Johnson have been arrested and positioned in custody on the Monrovia Central Jail. They may stay detained till the courtroom determines their eligibility for bail.
Different suspects named within the indictment stay at massive as police intensify efforts to find and apprehend them. The Belongings Restoration and Property Retrieval Job Pressure said that the investigation seeks to determine, recuperate, and return public belongings allegedly acquired unlawfully throughout Bundoo’s tenure in authorities.
The courtroom’s motion represents one of the vital vital steps within the present administration’s anti-corruption marketing campaign, signaling a renewed effort to carry former officers and associates accountable for alleged monetary misconduct.
In a associated improvement, Mr. G. Edmund Ponpon Jr., Coverage Analyst to Commerce Minister Magdalene Ellen Dagoseh, was amongst these arrested by the Asset Restoration Crew on allegations of corruption.
Stories earlier this 12 months alleged that Ponpon acted as an middleman for Minister Dagoseh in dealings with enterprise companions to solicit kickbacks. Sources additionally indicated that Ponpon beforehand held an analogous function beneath former Commerce Minister Mawine Diggs, the place he confronted comparable allegations of corrupt practices.
The Minister couldn’t be reached for remark as her telephone rang unanswered.
