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Liberia's former defence chief Samukai to be jailed for embezzlement

File photo of Brownie Samukai during his tenure as Liberia's Defence Chief during the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration. © RFI/Darlington Porkpa

The Supreme Court of Liberia handed down two-year prison sentences to former defence chief Brownie Samukai along with deputies Joseph Johnson and James Nyuman Ndokor after they failed to return one million euros worth of stolen money from a government pension account.

Samukai, who was in court as the ruling was being read on Thursday, fled the building before he was taken to jail.

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