Sierra Leone: Electoral officials charged with corruption

A British-born judge brought in specially to try corruption cases has imposed stiff bail on two electoral officials accused of embezzling public funds in a high profile case being heard during the run-up to Sierra Leone’s local government elections. At a court hearing on Monday, Justice Robert Schuster set bail of 128 million leones (US$43,000) for Joseph Aruna and Francis Hindowa, two former electoral commissioners in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Region, for misappropriating more than $1,000 of public funds each.