July 4, 2026
We just watched the police IG Gregory Coleman delivering the second findings of the Joint Special Investigation into the US$19 million cocaine bust at the Roberts International Airport (RIA). Consider this as our initial response.
We want to welcome the report, and thanks to the joint special investigative team for the latest update.
However, we are keen to raise the following concerns:
1) The Police have charged the Global Logistics Services (GLS) for conspiring, accepting, facilitating, storing, and transporting the six-box consignment of cocaine through the airport cargo chain. The police also said that GLS provided substantial assistance to the drug trafficking scheme. But the police refused and stopped short of naming the Owner and CEO of GLS as a “suspect” or even as a “person of interest”. The bias seems clear here. It is important to note that GLS (Business Registration number 051931521) is 100% owned, operated, managed, and supervised by Peter King. How possible could GLS be charged for conspiring, accepting, facilitating, storing, transporting, and trafficking drugs but its owner/CEO is neither a “suspect” nor even a “person of interest”? Huh..Besides Peter King’s direct participation into and involvement with “cargo” transactions and transshipment, staff of GLS, including his subordinates, also took instructions from and were directly supervised by him. He was/is not just an active participant or an accomplice who aided and abetted the trafficking scheme, but he’s unarguably complicit as well. In a press statement released on June 28, 2026, he even confirmed and admitted his complicity. These were his exact words: “…our cargo handling procedures and weight verification process identified a discrepancy in a shipment presented for acceptance.” Intentionally ignoring his direct and active involvement does not only defy the common legal doctrines of Accessory Liability and Complicity Liability, but it also raises questions about transparency and accountability vis-à-vis impunity. Peter King must be charged. You charged the general manager Paul King but didn’t charge the CEO Peter King even though Paul King was taking instructions from and being supervised by CEO Peter King. Furthermore, though you have charged the company for trafficking, transporting, storing, and facilitating drugs, they are still actively operating at the RIA where the transnational crime(s) was/were committed. We also did not hear what measure you have taken to suspend/annul their operations since they’ve already been charged with a set of multiple nonbailable criminal offenses (first degree felonies under the 2023 Anti-Drug Law). It was in the warehouse of GLS that the consignments of drugs were continually stored before transshipment. Section 14.94 of the 2023 Anti-Drug Law says: “A person commits an offense if he/she stores drugs.” Peter King supervised the GLS warehouse and other facilities in GLS’s premises at the Airport all through. So, why is he being intentionally SHIELDED? Who is shielding him and to what end?
2) The special investigative findings also ignored the main transporter of the drugs. The testimonies of GLS General Manager Paul King, EHS Country Manager Arthur Abdullai, and multiple staff of GLS and EHS confirmed that it was Arthur Abdullai who regularly picked up the consignments of cocaine from Paul King’s house to transport them to the Airport. Section 14.85 says: “A person commits an offense if he/she transports any controlled drug and substance.” Why did you ignore this? Arthur Abdullai is yet to be charged. You did not name him as a suspect. Why? Was it an oversight, because the laws on the transportation of drugs are crystal clear?
3) It is important to note that your latest findings only focused on the June 5, 2026 drug bust (6 boxes of cocaine with a weight of 233kg and a street value of US$19.2 million). But here’s what you also intentionally ignored. There was a successful export of four (4) separate boxes of cocaine on May 22, 2026 which we raised and provided irrefutable evidence for. You did not include that in your special investigation or investigative findings. You ignored it. This May 22nd consignment was also supervised, facilitated, transported, and expoerted by GLS under the direction of its CEO Peter King. The trio: Peter King, Paul King, and Arthur Abdullai also criminally conspired, transported, facilitated, and exported 100kg of cocaine on May 22 with the same labels of the June 5, 2026 consignment: “Emre Venn Group of Companies” as “Consignor” and “Usman Ali” as “Consignee”. You have the Air Waybill (AWB) to confirn this, but it’s being ignored. The joint investigative team cannot ignore this, because the facts are also ironclad. It’s good that you confirmed in your findings that “Emre Venn Group of Companies” is a ghost fake company that was being criminally used to traffic drugs on June 5 as our investigation previously discovered ever since and revealed. These were the same details they criminally used for the May 22, 2026 consigment of 100kg cocaine.
4) We welcome the fact that GLS General Manager Paul King has been elevated from a “Person of Interest” to a “Suspect.” But we are also concerned about the remaining four (4) suspects whom you charged ‘in absentia’ and/or declared ‘on the run’: Michael U.S. Browne, Oscar J. Browne, Emmanuel Kpah, and Usman Ali. Out of the 5 suspects named, only one (1) is in your custody. So, this means that 80% of the suspects in this case are on the run or have run away. But we did not hear whether you are taking or have taken steps to request a red notice (INTERPOL) and extradite them.
Once again, we want to thank the special joint investigative team for the update, and we’ll continue to follow this case, because it’s of high interest to our people and country. Tens of thousands of grieving parents have lost their children to drugs. Tens of thousands of Liberian youth are living in various graveyards across Liberia due to drug trafficking, smuggling, and abuse. We must fight for them. The cartel must be dismantled. There should be no sacred cow. Liberia First.
This is our initial response.
Signed: Martin K. N. Kollie
Liberian activist in exile
