Liberia: FDA Indictees Waive Jury Trial

Roughly five of the indicted former officials of the Forestry Development Authority have jointly waived their rights to jury trial on multiple criminal charges, including economic sabotage, criminal conspiracy, forgery or counterfeiting, among others.

The defendants' request was granted Wednesday after pleading not guilty to an indictment that accuses them of issuing up to 61 illegal Private Use Permits between April 2010 [and] December 2011 that authorized commercial logging operations on nearly 2.5 million hectares of land area, defrauding government of over US$6 Millions in revenues.

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