Head of Liberia’s National Port Authority sanctioned by US

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three Liberian government officials for public corruption, including  Bill Twehway, current managing director of the National Port Authority (NPA).

According to OFAC, Twehway orchestrated the diversion of US$1.5m in vessel storage fee funds from the NPA into a private account.

It claimed that he secretly formed a private company to which, through his position at the NPA, he later unilaterally awarded a contract for loading and unloading cargo at the Port of Buchanan.