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S.Leone ex-president ordered to pay $15M in corruption case
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- 16 December, 2023
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A Sierra Leone court has ordered former president Ernest Bai Koroma to pay more than $15 million in a suspected corruption case, legal authorities said, Report informs referring to AFP.
The appeal court in the capital Freetown rejected arguments by lawyers for Koroma, who was president until 2018, and ordered the sum be paid within 30 days, they said in a statement on social media.
"We will appeal the judgement," Koroma's lawyer Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara told AFP by telephone on Friday.
He added they had yet to receive a copy of the ruling after it was read out in court on Thursday.
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