【全非资讯·西非】 利比里亚警方称其警员曾护送可卡因并面临指控

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利比里亚警察总监Gregory Coleman周四表示，现役利比里亚警察指挥官曾为该国最大一批可卡因走私货提供护送，将其从登陆海岸运往随后被查获的藏匿点，其中两名指挥官已被指控并于周四被送交法庭。\n\n这是该国官方首次指控警官直接参与运送毒品，而不是在事后干扰调查，此举将警方置于他们正在调查的贩毒行动的核心。\n\nColeman在新闻部的例行新闻发布会上说：“我们已经确定了关键的国家公职人员，他们在将这些麻醉品从登陆点运送到藏匿点的过程中发挥了作用，他们使用警车进行护送，一前一后。”\n\n他点名了高速公路巡逻队队长Wadell Quaboe和重案处处长Anthony Blaye，两人已被扣押在警察总部，并将在当天移交法庭起诉。Coleman还表示，利比里亚缉毒局罗伯茨国际机场（Roberts International Airport）的一名副指挥官也被确定为关键人物，其他涉案人员仍在调查中。\n\n他说：“针对他们的调查仍在继续。时机成熟时，我们会公布相关信息。”\n\nColeman表示，调查人员已经确认，如果没有官方保护，这批货物根本不可能进入该国。“你们都应该知道的一个关键情况是，如果没有协助，这些毒贩绝不敢带着如此规模的麻醉品进入我国。”\n\n关于保护伞的提供者，他的表态远超以往警方的立场。他告诉记者，该行动得到了上届政府最高层的授权。调查已追溯至2021年，目前正在审查2019年至2023年期间担任总统任命职务的人员。

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Serving Liberian police commanders drove escort for the country's largest cocaine consignment as it was moved from the shoreline where it came ashore to the stash house where it was later seized, and two of them were charged and sent to court Thursday, Inspector General of Police Gregory Coleman said.

It is the first time the state has accused officers of moving the narcotics themselves rather than of interfering with the investigation after the fact, and it puts the police at the center of the trafficking operation they are investigating.

"We have identified key state actors who played a role in transporting, escorting the movement of these narcotic substance from the landing site to the holding ground using police vehicles as escort, one in the front, one in the back," Coleman said at the Ministry of Information's regular press briefing.

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He named the chief of highway patrol, Wadell Quaboe and the chief of major crimes Anthony Blaye, both of whom were detained at Police Headquarters and, he said, would be turned over to court the same day for prosecution. A deputy commander at Roberts International Airport for the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency has also been identified as a key actor, Coleman said, and other state actors remain under investigation.

"The investigation continues with them," he said. "When the time is right, we will be putting the information out."

Coleman said investigators have established that the shipment could not have entered the country without official protection. "One key thing that you all should know is that these traffickers would never be brave to enter our country with this particular extent of narcotic substances," he said. "They had assistance."

He went considerably further than the police have gone before on who provided it, telling reporters the operation was authorized at the top of a previous government. The investigation has reached 2021, he said, and is examining people who held presidential appointments between 2019 and 2023.

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