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How the Jos Leijdekkers Connection Continues to Taint Sierra Leone’s Image
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He arrived in Freetown under the guise of a Turkish investor named Omar Sheriff. Young-looking, with the cheeks of a teenager, he quickly asserted himself in Sierra Leone’s capital. His black G-Wagon cruised the Atlantic coast, his weekends spent at Sky Bar or the Grand Leone Casino, rubbing shoulders with Chinese gamblers and government ministers alike.
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