A family spokesman claims the men arrived in US embassy vehicles on Sunday backed by heavily armed national police officers and took the keys from Taylor’s security guards at gunpoint.
According to the family, the Americans brandished a search warrant from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where the former Liberian president is currently on trial for war crimes, but the court denied any involvement.
The American embassy in Monrovia and the Liberian minister of justice both refused to comment yesterday.
Reports say the search might be linked to the US indictment of Charles Taylor’s son Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Chuckie Taylor, on torture charges.
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