- Experts: Taylor stole $ 100 million
Charles Taylor, for six years the warlord president of Liberia, stole or
diverted nearly $100 million of his country's wealth, leaving it the poorest
nation on earth, according to a close review of government records, an
investigation by United Nations experts and interviews with senior Liberian
officials.
N.Y. Times, September 18, 2003
- UN Representative Jaques Klein: Taylor stole $ 3 million as he fled
Liberia
Charles G. Taylor, who was forced out as president of Liberia on Aug. 11
and flew to exile in Nigeria, took with him $3 million donated for disarming
and demobilizing thousands of armed combatants, a senior United Nations
official said. According to a report by Tim Weiner of the New York Times the
sum is roughly equal to six months of current government revenues in
Liberia, by any measure one of the poorest nations on earth.
US
Africa online, September 2003
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