Only the emotional Commissioner of Maritime Affairs Benoni Urey has broken ranks...
They documented how in 2000 and early 2001 Liberia's Commissioner for Maritime Affairs Benoni Urey authorised payments from maritime funds for a sanctions-busting operation through San Air in the United Arab Emirates a company linked to the McDonald's of sanctions-busting Victor Bout...
An associate of Bout's Kenyan-born Sanjivan Ruprah helped Benoni Urey and his brother Leroy to set up a ghost-airline West Africa Air Service (WAAS) to supply weapons and military equipment in contravention of UN sanctions...
Benoni Urey maintains his innocence...