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Howard-Tayor faces charges including the unlicensed importation, sale and transportation of controlled drugs, illicit trafficking, criminal solicitation and criminal facilitation.<\/p>\n
Police have charged three foreign nationals – two Croatians and one Ukrainian – in absentia as part of their investigation. They are accused of being part of the same network as the former politician. <\/p>\n
Liberian Justice Minister Oswald Tweh said the authorities would use domestic and international measures to locate and arrest them.<\/p>\n
Liberia has stepped up a crackdown on cocaine trafficking, following two major seizures in June and July.<\/p>\n
Almost four tonnes of cocaine believed to be bound for Europe were found during the raid in July.<\/p>\n
The authorities described it as Liberia’s biggest drug bust and said it had uncovered a sophisticated transnational trafficking network.<\/p>\n
The investigation has since extended to senior figures within Liberia’s security establishment.<\/p>\n
The government says its investigations are aimed at identifying not only those directly involved in transporting drugs, but also financiers, organisers and people accused of helping to protect the operation.<\/p>\n
“No office is too high, no political connection is too powerful, no nationality provides immunity, and no individual is beyond the reach of the law,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
West Africa has increasingly been used as a major transit route for cocaine trading from South America to Europe, with traffickers exploiting porous borders and weak enforcement in parts of the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n