Saudi Rice Case: Several Former Officials Found Guilty, Thelma Sawyer Acquitted.

Monrovia, Liberia: Former Internal Affairs Minister Varney Sirleaf and his former Deputy Minister for Administration, Momolu Johnson, have been found guilty on all five charges brought against them in the Saudi-donated rice case.

The charges are theft of property, abuse of office, misapplication of entrusted property, criminal conspiracy and economic sabotage.

Former Deputy Foreign Minister Thelma Duncan Sawyer, wife of the late Dr. Amos Sawyer, was acquitted after being found not guilty in the case.

The findings also affected several former officials of the National Disaster Management Agency and the General Services Agency.

Former NDMA Executive Director Henry O. Williams was found guilty of economic sabotage. Former Director for Disaster Victims Augustine Kollie was found guilty on nearly all charges brought against him, although the information provided did not identify the individual counts.

Archievego Menneah Doe, former NDMA Communications Director, was found guilty on three of the five charges. The specific charges on which he was convicted were not stated.

Former GSA Deputy Director Edriss Bility was also found guilty of charges brought against him. A breakdown of those findings was not provided.

The case concerns the handling of rice donated by Saudi Arabia for disaster victims in Liberia. The Asset Recovery and Property Retrieval Taskforce led the case against the former officials.

The findings produced different outcomes, with several former officials found guilty while Sawyer was cleared. No details on sentencing or possible appeals were included in the information provided.