Monrovia- August 2, 2022: Two Czech investors, who filed a US$ 5 million criminal case against the Secretary of the Liberian Senate, Nanborlor Singbeh, and the matter has been pending undecided for years, at Criminal Court ‘C’ have written Chief Justice Francis Korkpor.

The case was docketed for hearing during the June 2022 Term of Court but did not happen so, due to Chief Justice Korkpor’s reassignment of Judge Blamo Dixon.

“Your Honor, we have complained the following judges to include, Roland F. Dahn, Yamie Quiqui Gbeisaye, and Scheaplor R. Dunbar, all of which are pending undetermined,” said Martin Miloschewsky and Pavel Miloschewsky letter to Chief Justice Korkpor.

The Miloschewsky brothers’ letter comes about two weeks to the opening of the August 2022 Term of Courts, and the September 5 date set for the retirement of Chief Justice Korkpor.

Before Judge Dixon’s reassignment, he had recused himself from hearing the case on the basis that he was allegedly caught communicating with some of the defendants, particularly Singbeh’s confident Champon Logan, and the complaint against him is pending with the Judiciary Inquiry Commission (JIC).

Accordingly, Judges Dahn, Gbeisaye, and Dunbar are also not qualified to handle the matter, due to complaints of alleged ethical conduct filed against them by the Czech investors’ Attorney-In-Fact, Hans Armstrong.

The Czech Investors’ letter dated July 29, 2022, reads: “Your Honor, assignment of any of those judges complained of herein will jeopardize the case and deny us speedily dispensation of justice because these judges are legally precluded from further presiding over any case which Armstrong is a party, based on a complaint filed against these judges.”

The letter further reads: “Your Honor, there is a legal Maxim that says Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.”

The Czech Investors letter continued, “We crave Your Honor kind indulgence, to please assign a judge other than Roland F. Dahn, Yamie Quiqui Gbeisaye, Scheaplor R. Dunbar, and Blamo Dixon, to afford the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) the opportunity for the speedy administration of justice/trial of this case, and to also allow the defendants to have their day in court, consistent with law and procedures in this jurisdiction.”

Justice Korkpor is not in error to have reassigned Judge Dixon to the Criminal Court C during the June 2022 Term of Court, because the New Judicial Law gives the chief justice the right to rotate judges.

Section 3.9 of the New Judicial Law titled: “Assignment of judges to Circuits Courts: says, “Each Circuit Judge, except the judges commissioned as relieving judges, shall preside as resident judge over the Circuit Court of the circuit for which he was appointed. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall assign, on a rotating system, a Circuit Judge to each quarterly session of the various circuits and if all business before a circuit court is disposed of before the expiration of a quarterly session, the Chief Justice shall have the power to reassign the Circuit Judge assigned thereto to sit for the balance of the quarterly session in any other circuit in addition to the Circuit Judge currently assigned there, if he deems such reassignment will aid the prompt disposition of judicial business.”

Mr. Singbeh together with George W. Wisner, former Executive Director/Acting Chairman, National Investment Commission (NIC), Nathaniel Barnes, former Finance Minister, Champon Logan, Ecobank Liberia, and Afriland First Bank, and several others were indicted in 2020 for allegedly duping the Czech Investors of over US$5million in both cash and mining equipment sent to the country for the establishment of the production of crushed rock and other related quarry activities.

But the government claimed that the monies and equipment that were transferred to Singbeh, who with his co-defendants did not establish the company, and is requesting the defendants for accountability.