Monrovia, Sept. 10 -- Mr. Andrew Wonplo, the disgraced former Passport Director of Liberia who was arrested in August 2019 and accused of selling Liberian Passports to foreign nationals, has been banned from entry into the United States of America despite recently being set free by the judicial branch of Liberia.
US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, in a statement Thursday announced the public designation due to Wonplo's involvement in significant corruption. "In his official capacity at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2019, Mr. Wonplo was involved in passport fraud that undermined the rule of law, reduced the Liberian public's faith in their government's management of identification and travel documents, and compromised t...