UP party stalwarts pocketed $45 million USD from Liberian taxpayers during the EBOLA healthcare emergency from a controversial telecom deal in December 2011 to implement an International Gateway Management System (IGMS). The scheme taxed all incoming international calls $0.14 USD per minute and split that revenue between stakeholders. Altogether, this means that the IGMS scheme took in $224,560,660 USD during the Ebola crisis, with Varney Sherman and his cronies’ share from the deal totaling $44,912,132 USD during the crisis. They were kicked out of Senegal and Haiti for business practices revealed as scams that distorted local telecommunications markets. To date, neither the LTA, Vice President Boakai nor the Unity Party Gang could be reached for comments.

Source: GNN Liberia October 04, 2017 16:07 UTC