The Supreme Court yesterday did not give any assurance that it will mandate Criminal Court ‘C’ to resume jurisdiction over the Sable Mining alleged US$950,000 bribery case involving several past and present public officials, including former House Speaker Alex Tyler of Bomi County. The court, meanwhile, informed both the defense and prosecution that its present focus is on cases that may arise from elections-related irregularities during the conduct of the October 10 presidential and legislative elections, instead of criminal cases such as the Sable Mining case. “We are going to concentrate on cases that would come from the ongoing electoral process for now, but not criminal matters,” the court said yesterday. Mulbah further argued that the emails and spreadsheets were voluntarily given by Heine van Niekerk, Sable Mining executive for West Africa, to the Government of Liberia’s investigating team. Co-defendant Sherman allegedly had the series of email exchanges with van Niekerk.

Source: Daily Observer October 04, 2017 02:26 UTC