Liberia, June 17 -- Liberia's government said on Tuesday that it will investigate bribery allegations connected to the country's largest human trafficking trial, which is now in its second week.

Sumo C. Kutu Akoi, a senior human trafficking prosecutor, when asked about the prospect of a probe, told FrontPage Africa/New Narratives that Augustine C. Fayiah, Liberia's Solicitor General, ordered the creation of a special investigative panel "to establish the authenticity of those statements by the victims -whether it's true or not."

"It will be prosecuted as a separate case," said Akoi in the interview after Tuesday's proceedings at Criminal Court A at the Temple of Justice, the seat of Liberia's judiciary. "The jurisdiction lies with the ...