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Written by Our Senior Staff
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Friday, 10 August 2012 05:42 |
The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has vehemently denied defending Musa Bility’s tax records in court as reported by a local daily Thursday. CBL, through its assistant legal counsel, expresses concern over what it describes as a misleading front page headline of the August 9, 2012 edition of the Daily Observer newspaper, titled: CBL Defends Bility’s Tax Records.
In a statement issued late Thursday, CBL said it has not defended Bility or any party in court, clarifying that it had only responded to an order, dated July 18, 2012, from Assigned Tax Court Judge for Montserrado County, Eva Mappy Morgan, requesting CBL management to produce and testify to a set of documents referenced in a writ of Subpoena Duces Tecum in the case: RL, plaintiff Vs. Gulf Trading/Srimex Enterprises.
According to the statement, CBL received the writ in a matter that it (CBL) is not a party to but ordered by the court to perform a public service, “which it did not have choice to refuse an order from the court.”
CBL’s assistant legal counselor Joseph Jallah is quoted in the statement as saying that, in so doing, the CBL was able to search and within two weeks presented the requested tax documents to the court which were receipts on taxes paid through a designated staff to fulfill the instruction of the court. “It is not the place of the CBL to defend individuals and or business in such matters and neither did we try to do that by complying with the court order under the Writ of Subpoena Duces Tecum,” Cllr. Jallah stated.
According to him, the CBL was surprised about such a headline, and noted that the bank deems it necessary to set its records straight.
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