Ministry of Finance (Liberia)

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The Ministry of Finance is a government ministry of the Republic of Liberia. As of 2024, the Liberian Finance Minister is Boima Kamara, who was appointed in January 2024. [1] The minister is appointed by the President of Liberia, with the consent of Senate of Liberia.

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The ministry's offices are located in Broad & Mechlin Street in Monrovia. [2]

The ministry was led by a secretary of the treasury before 1972, and since 1972 minister of finance.

On 11 December 2023, the U.S. State Department publicly designated Tweah and two members of the Senate of Liberia as pursuant to Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023, for "involvement in significant corruption by abusing their public positions through soliciting, accepting, and offering bribes to manipulate legislative processes and public funding, including legislative reporting and mining sector activity." [3]

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