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Liberia has charged former Vice-President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering and a range of other offences as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was detained on Wednesday before being able to board a flight at Roberts International Airport in the capital, Monrovia, the country’s justice ministry confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police chief Gregory Coleman has linked her to the seizure last month of cocaine valued at $317m (\u00a3233m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 63-year-old politician has yet to make any public comment about the allegations. Her lawyer told the BBC he could not comment until Howard-Taylor was formally charged in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Howard-Taylor went into politics after her now ex-husband, former President Charles Taylor, left power. He was a former rebel leader who was elected Liberia’s president in 1997, remaining in office until 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charles Taylor was later arrested and convicted by a UN-back court of aiding and abetting rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war, in which some 50,000 people died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several years later, George Weah picked Howard-Taylor as his running mate and she served as his deputy during his presidency from 2018 until 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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