tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32745529086420167992024-03-19T06:12:19.030-04:00Kenneth Rijock's Financial Crime BlogMoney Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Financial CrimeKenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.comBlogger7740125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-48102671874799030102024-03-19T06:11:00.003-04:002024-03-19T06:11:26.823-04:00DON'T LOOK TO THE UNITED STATES TO SOLVE EUROPE'S BLOODY CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORT MONEY LAUNDERING NIGHTMARE: EU, TAKE ACTION FORTHWITH<p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAFmPjl80btIhfuj2vrzaoRl5K83XHTKsqflo6XWsmKzLWLAScI3uvhucVuBTYVmA5xrOzjFf5RGV07rAdqjLo6TjSSqTfPSJtLLCJSJ4ycoEw54Pp8hUYQC6g69Lv5inXlTUeVZ30jZF1_ncOzvRP7luMkrwKStQVE0Fy6dqOfcro07JMj3oGNsW-7uE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAFmPjl80btIhfuj2vrzaoRl5K83XHTKsqflo6XWsmKzLWLAScI3uvhucVuBTYVmA5xrOzjFf5RGV07rAdqjLo6TjSSqTfPSJtLLCJSJ4ycoEw54Pp8hUYQC6g69Lv5inXlTUeVZ30jZF1_ncOzvRP7luMkrwKStQVE0Fy6dqOfcro07JMj3oGNsW-7uE=w400-h240" width="400" /></a></div><br />I happen to know more than a little about both money laundering and the employment of of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passports to facilitate it. I was a career money launderer in the "Tax Havens" (read: the money laundering republics) of the East Caribbean states, five of which sell CBI passports, for a decade, and I worked closely with the man many call the father of St. Kitts' groundbreaking passport program, the late William Herbert, Jr., former Foreign Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, until his untimely demise, reportedly over the alleged loss of funds belonging to the IRA.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The news that the Members of the European Union, having had more than enough with the use and abuse of CBI passports, to engage in money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial crime, is contemplating terminating all visa-free access by the holders of those prized identity documents, is music to me ears. The reason this pleases me is that, since the United States has deliberately, as a matter of national policy, ignored the severe money laundering threats posed by CBI passports for decades, someone has finally stepped up to deal with this tool of crime.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For decades, yours truly has loudly blown the whistle in the US, to both its law enforcement agencies, as well as its secretive intelligence community, about the clear & present danger of CBI passposts, but due to what is certainly a State Department policy of not appearing to be an overbearing superpower, America has kept its hands off what are basically Caribbean jurisdictions whose corrupt and greedy leadership has thrived on dirty money spent on CBI passports, both in the purchase thereof, and their subsequent use to facilitate global money laundering. The US has even gone so far as to decline to pursue the systemic CBI-enabled money laundering operation, by American citizens, in the Republic of Malta, Europe's sole holdout in the dirty business of CBI sales to criminals.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We welcome Europe's belated, but necessary,, efforts to shut down this important loophole, through which money launderers drive a truck full of the proceeds of crime in, and through, that region's financial institutions, and hope that the EU's actions will result in delivering a fatal blow to East Caribbean state (and Maltese) CBI-facilitated financial crime for once and for all. Frankly, I am tired of watching the laundrymen use those passports to clean the proceeds of crime in the European financial structure.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-3988172725856721372024-03-17T09:27:00.003-04:002024-03-17T09:27:19.045-04:00IS IT NOW TIME TO FINALLY END VISA-FREE TRAVEL TO THE EU FOR HOLDERS OF CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS, DUE TO SYSTEMIC AND INTENTIONAL DUE DILIGENCE FAILURES TO SCREEN APPLICANTS? <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdOpiMIw3gWfqSUQ7f4Um01M9GeUObcrJ0jP_aKaCval2ByVwRN5DUEb_uB5FfM3QujuiDaa0sKmmYczIGYJIhc-g3I1UokmKsB63pJuL2IxbMooTNZut3PAZyiR1UQV9rwjw74OL5FS4YE7IS33Fw0RZnPtqNgHXg2Y4JoYp1A5HOoz21GBA_P5PKCdQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="216" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdOpiMIw3gWfqSUQ7f4Um01M9GeUObcrJ0jP_aKaCval2ByVwRN5DUEb_uB5FfM3QujuiDaa0sKmmYczIGYJIhc-g3I1UokmKsB63pJuL2IxbMooTNZut3PAZyiR1UQV9rwjw74OL5FS4YE7IS33Fw0RZnPtqNgHXg2Y4JoYp1A5HOoz21GBA_P5PKCdQ=w370-h400" width="370" /></a></p><br />When I told St. Kitts then-Foreign Minister, WILLIAM HERBERT, JR.,* that my Medellin Cartel-linked cocaine trafficking clients could no longer qualify for his newly-independent nation's groundbreaking Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport program, due to their indictment in the United States. Dr. Herbert advised me to simply find a cooperating law enforcement agency somewhere, and obtain Certificates of Good Standing for the required SKN due diligence. His actual knowledge that my clients were completely unacceptable as applicants, but that he still wanted to sell them passports, was only my first encounter with what was to be an industry that regards the lucrative cash flow it brings into a developing country, and its vendors, as more important than being a proper gatekeeper to bar career criminals, corrupt PEPs, terrorist financiers, and the Usual Suspects, all of who are seeking entry into the EU, and elsewhere, without visa scrutiny of their background, hidden agenda, and dark goals.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Due diligence, at Customer Identification, for applicants at the five East Caribbean states that have CBI passport programs, and at the Republic of Malta, the last EU Member to still sell such passports, is an utter failure, and a continuing insult perpetrated upon the European Union, which accept them for entry visa-free. Whether they be Russian organized crime members, citizens of countries designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism, corrupt foreign officials from states that are known kleptocracies, or just garden-variety international fraudsters, the wrong people seem to get approved, time after time, by the dysfunctional CIP programs the CBI vendor nations operate.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Unless and until the CBI states move to external, onshore due diligence, by reputable compliance organizations, that will be completely free of corrupt influence, it is high time to revoke the visa-free EU entry status that these passports freely come with. All the other nonsense, about the virtues that these passports convey to their holders, will fall by the wayside, as unfettered EU access is the single most important that CBI passports possess, and without it, their attractiveness to purchasers will disappear, like the cool breeze early on a Caribbean morning.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">____________________________________</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*Dr. Herbert would later meet a reported violent end, allegedly at the orders of a terrorist client who wrongly suspected him of stealing money earmarked for weapons purchases, but actually confiscated by an agency of His Majesty's Government.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-82450732768063624252024-03-16T18:05:00.004-04:002024-03-16T18:05:43.536-04:00FEDERAL COURTS NOW REQUIRE THAT JUDICIAL ASSIGNMENTS BE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED DISTRICT-WIDE, AND NOT TO JUDGES IN DIVISIONS WHERE FILED THAT CONTAIN ONLY ONE DISTRICT JUDGE<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp6L7u7qVNcfsi3ekdhHC5L2fWWiGLpStqQoj6nNlXyKAPY5x7O5Or-j_26AMceuk-OcXj-eDbRL9KMAiI5u6_W8y_qJf-tNNDs7BsSW8DZscJJAvDW_17XbfiivY78Qhhys_O0B5OeY974e9Qg2OeCH2lwbqd-yjGWQZXAgpfb3cglgtvLZk-Kbew-FQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp6L7u7qVNcfsi3ekdhHC5L2fWWiGLpStqQoj6nNlXyKAPY5x7O5Or-j_26AMceuk-OcXj-eDbRL9KMAiI5u6_W8y_qJf-tNNDs7BsSW8DZscJJAvDW_17XbfiivY78Qhhys_O0B5OeY974e9Qg2OeCH2lwbqd-yjGWQZXAgpfb3cglgtvLZk-Kbew-FQ=w400-h251" width="400" /></a></div><br />To: Judges, United States District Courts District Court Executives Clerks, United States District Courts
From: Judge Chair, Gregory Vanon Tatenhove Court Administration 5
and Case Management
RE (GUIDANCE FOR CIVIL CASE ASSIGNMENT IN THE DISTRICT COURTS
At its March 2024 session, the Judicial Conference, upon recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM), approved the following policy regarding case assignment practices:
District courts should apply district-wide assignment to:
a. civil actions seeking to bar or mandate statewide enforcement of a state aw, including arule, regulation, policy, or order of the executive branch ora state agency, whether by declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relief; and
b. civil actions seeking to bar or mandate nationwide enforcement of a federal law, including a rule, regulation, policy, or order of the executive branch or a federal agency. whether by declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relict.
On behalf of the CACM Committee, I write to share the attached Guidance for Civil Case Assignment in District Courts. The guidance supports implementation of the above policy, which is applicable in instances when the remedy sought has implications beyond the partes before the court and the local community, and the importance of having a case heard by a judge with ties to
COMMITTEE ON COURT ADMINISTRATION AND CASE MANAGEMENT
OF THE
JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES
Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, Chair Robin S. Rosenbaum
Joseph F. Bianco Brendan L. Shannon
Nora Barry Fischer Leo Sorokin
John Z. Lee Kathryn H. Vratil
Trevor N. McFadden Brian C. Wimes
Susie Morgan B. Lynn Winmill
Michael J. Roemer Melissa Aubin, Clerk Representative
David A. Levine, Staff
March 15, 2024
MEMORANDUM
To: Judges, United States District Courts
District Court Executives
Clerks, United States District Courts
From: Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove
Chair, Committee on Court Administration and Case Management
RE: GUIDANCE FOR CIVIL CASE ASSIGNMENT IN THE DISTRICT COURTS
At its March 2024 session, the Judicial Conference, upon recommendation of the
Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM), approved the following
policy regarding case assignment practices:
District courts should apply district-wide assignment to:
a. civil actions seeking to bar or mandate statewide enforcement of a state law, including
a rule, regulation, policy, or order of the executive branch or a state agency, whether by
declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relief; and
b. civil actions seeking to bar or mandate nationwide enforcement of a federal law,
including a rule, regulation, policy, or order of the executive branch or a federal agency,
whether by declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relief.
On behalf of the CACM Committee, I write to share the attached Guidance for Civil Case
Assignment in District Courts. The guidance supports implementation of the above policy, which
is applicable in instances when the remedy sought has implications beyond the parties before the
court and the local community, and the importance of having a case heard by a judge with ties to
Guidance for Civil Case Assignment in the District Courts Page 2
the local community is not a compelling factor. And it provides general guidance in civil case assignment practices.
‘The guidance is predicated on the Judicial Conferences long standing policies supporting the random assignment of cases and ensuring that district judges remain generalists. The most crucial tool in achieving these policy goals is the case assignment practices or methods employed in dividing the business of the court. Case assignment practices or methods that do not reflect the longstanding Judicial Conference policy of random case assignment tend to undermine the independence of the branch and the trust of the public in the judiciary.
“These policies and the accompanying guidance inform the district courts” statutory authority and discretion to divide the business of the court pursuant to 28 US.C. § 137. They should not be viewed as impairing a court’s authority or discretion. Instead, they set out various ways for courts to align their case assignment practices with the longstanding Judicial Conference policy of random case assignment. Simply put, these policies should serve the purpose of securing a “just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.” Fed. R. Civ.P.1<p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-2838426151910173732024-03-16T07:58:00.002-04:002024-03-16T08:06:56.575-04:00ARE YOU ATTENDING NEORAMA'S APRIL 2 SEMINAR ON TRADE-BASED MONEY LAUNDERING ? I WILL BE A FEATURED SPEAKER ON TBML<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggw7qTmMS720fJFswTTbICSb3lAbmRrBy-nYoiF5yvDWiNRv-Mu54wZUNI_vDtJ_ObPDSVJyPG0TMQDZ2KFnSobxcKpfcQFXRgOTZWxgMNk5H8dRazqj4JLvDGJ4b6r3KjYZvfX9DvDsnjUo2Ql00QxTGR0MfgIklQGCszcHhawGb0msHOCZH_3a-GOTg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggw7qTmMS720fJFswTTbICSb3lAbmRrBy-nYoiF5yvDWiNRv-Mu54wZUNI_vDtJ_ObPDSVJyPG0TMQDZ2KFnSobxcKpfcQFXRgOTZWxgMNk5H8dRazqj4JLvDGJ4b6r3KjYZvfX9DvDsnjUo2Ql00QxTGR0MfgIklQGCszcHhawGb0msHOCZH_3a-GOTg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-39750177034764892922024-03-16T07:38:00.009-04:002024-03-16T07:38:56.528-04:00DISTURBING DEVELOPMENT; HOUTHI LEADERS MEET WITH HAMAS, PIJ AND PFLP, TO COORDINATE OPERATIONS<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_9lhck7EmInoWAW2XjmPKD6yHp36I3M-ZRbqEEEVofY-J_YmhviujlUEcMkIITa3tLNpbt4Ha27IVW1M7DPeh_H9HyJymwj6xkdHGyKYQNrbbl79dAlsBL0k9IOyYFMs19syEnuXzwDwd3fpaOyIamCC89pRJlFZ_JLR_iKlF7H0S-35T7o6IkUBcHDU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_9lhck7EmInoWAW2XjmPKD6yHp36I3M-ZRbqEEEVofY-J_YmhviujlUEcMkIITa3tLNpbt4Ha27IVW1M7DPeh_H9HyJymwj6xkdHGyKYQNrbbl79dAlsBL0k9IOyYFMs19syEnuXzwDwd3fpaOyIamCC89pRJlFZ_JLR_iKlF7H0S-35T7o6IkUBcHDU=w400-h249" width="400" /></a></p><br />Media linked to official Palestinian sources is reporting that the Houthi leadership has conducted a joint strategy meeting with representatives of HAMAS, PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD, and the POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE. These are all designated terrorist organizations. The subject matter of the meeting was said to be coordination of attacks upon Israel, although Houthi missiles and drones have not been discriminating in the group's efforts to destroy merchant shipping bound for Europe with Asian consumer goods; Shipping not destined for Israel has been repeatedly hit with lethal force.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Whether this is an indication that these Palestinian organizations will join the Houthis in attacking shipping in the region is not known, but the fact that such a meeting took place raises the chances that Hama and the PIJ, who posses missile technology, will bring them to bear on shipping transiting the region. Risk managers will now be factoring this new development into their estimates of threat levels facing shipping.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Of course, you can expect that insurance costs for coverage will now skyrocket, that some shippers will now even redline the Suez route altogether, and that the insurance marketplace will now see the entry of new, opportunistic players in the industry, seeking to impose unusually high rates, for financial gain.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Add to all this the latest information, that container shipping pricing is widely fluctuating, due to the resulting chaos, all of which is good news for TBML laundrymen, as compliance officers conducting transaction monitoring simply cannot keep up with rapidly unfolding shipping industry developments, and dirty money is most certainly moving within payments undetected.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-15154569824028472442024-03-15T09:26:00.001-04:002024-03-15T09:26:14.074-04:00NEW HOUTHI ACTIONS POTENTIALLY FURTHER ENDANGER SAFETY OF CREW MEMBERS OF SHIPPING IN REGION<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA4qa7WGhcJ71nOzlg0ABSMD0uaZWIaUwqfIeWHP_JRRIL3gN1h5S7UZJJQLWXmbx2FxKNosNWLAEbs5zSF7xzDJY8oOWtHReXASVkWfgRUxED6zxGus0Dc-W57YLchO4G8GpGAK7p5DoP84H67EgxQ7kwiNQlYDzW9stchxKl-5vh7sQZS90mcAkULdU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA4qa7WGhcJ71nOzlg0ABSMD0uaZWIaUwqfIeWHP_JRRIL3gN1h5S7UZJJQLWXmbx2FxKNosNWLAEbs5zSF7xzDJY8oOWtHReXASVkWfgRUxED6zxGus0Dc-W57YLchO4G8GpGAK7p5DoP84H67EgxQ7kwiNQlYDzW9stchxKl-5vh7sQZS90mcAkULdU=w400-h224" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Two new, even more ominous, events, involving the Houthi terrorists that have been attacking merchant shipping in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden/Indian Ocean region, significantly raise risk levels for crew members on board those vessels.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First, a senior Houthi leader, in a major press conference held inside the Houthi-occupied sector of Yemen has promised that any Israeli-bound shipping will be attacked, even if it takes the circuitous Cape of Good Hope route around Africa to avoid missiles and drones. This threat broadens the risk area that shipping originating in East Asia now encounters. Also, given that Houthi attacks on EU-bound shipping not destined for Israel, though erroneously claimed by the terrorist group to be in that category, means that it considers all shipping to be a target. The safety of the Cape route is no longer assured.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Second, an even more disturbing, is the news that the captain and crew of a seized vessel have been delivered to Hamas. Although details of this act are not available, this adds a new and frightening dimension to the situation. How are shipping owners to recover their crew members with an degree o certainty, even if ransom is paid to release their vessels? Shipping companies having to deal with Hamas is frightening.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">All these new factors, which will take the risk factors of shipping consumer goods, and energy, through the region, to a new and dangerous level, will only set off alarms at maritime insurance firms, as well as at the general headquarters of companies that ship goods through the area. Expect these new developments to further aid individuals engaged in trade-based money laundering (TBML), as they serve to increase uncertainty in pricing, insurance, and cost estimates.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-54238370596571537112024-03-14T08:56:00.006-04:002024-03-14T08:56:45.682-04:00COMMUNITY BANKS AT INCREASED RISK FROM MONEY LAUNDERERS DUE TO INCREASED AML/CFT AT LARGE, REGIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwq4SDWKv6CoA1n2RCyGLIBP7JDwEcGfeSbSBlSpBQqkbps60rFKG8KZSiYcmvSaIpFeuMAgdVYQPZH7Wcsy8aCiKuFpgV_uEKCqZ_VhH7Q1xJqtdTwZySKRZZSzsbcIl5Bv0x91igyzoVveLOtbhmje43aYE9XHj5CEQb5nOgk5bKSGGvlbtSIs-7Xd0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="338" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwq4SDWKv6CoA1n2RCyGLIBP7JDwEcGfeSbSBlSpBQqkbps60rFKG8KZSiYcmvSaIpFeuMAgdVYQPZH7Wcsy8aCiKuFpgV_uEKCqZ_VhH7Q1xJqtdTwZySKRZZSzsbcIl5Bv0x91igyzoVveLOtbhmje43aYE9XHj5CEQb5nOgk5bKSGGvlbtSIs-7Xd0=w400-h176" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a money launderer for more than a decade, I always followed what we call the Path of Least Resistance, when it came to targeting financial institutions.That means, whenever AML compliance became more efficient in one sector of the financial world, I moved on to areas where there still existed major gaps. Given that large American banks have now spent a considerable amount of time, and their budgets, in crafting compliance programs that are not only effective, but are continually upgrading their systems, you can expect that local and community banks are in the laundrymens' sights, as vulnerable targets.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Where's why:</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1. Budgets in community banks are typically small on training, with a major portion being conducted in-house to save money. Advanced money laundering techniques and methods, especially tradecraft that has become known to be in use of late, are not taught, and therefore frontline compliance officers are unaware of obscure and esoteric methods, and ignore their indicia when seeing them during Transaction Monitoring.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2. The typical salaries of compliance officers at local and community banks are rarely at the level that they are at major financial institutions. Therefore, the best, and most capable & experienced, talent goes elsewhere. Until and unless this changes, community banks will not attract those compliance officers who can identify & interdict, in real-time, advanced money laundering operations passing fund through the bank.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">3. The latest, and most effective, software platforms and programs available in the industry, are often not adopted for a extended period of time, due to a lack of funds in the current annual compliance budget. There must be a contingency fund available, should new technology appear, so that it is purchased the same year it becomes available.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It is humbly suggested that leadership at local and community banks set aside sufficient budgets to teach their staff advanced AML/CFT techniques, with external training, and pay them a competitive salary. Failing that, expect to see further penetration by money launderers who know a golden opportunity when they see it. You also must keep completely current on emerging software tools, as they appear. Expand your budget to meet these challenges, even if it means to reduce distribution of profits to shareholders. Otherwise, expect to get hit by money launderers, with the resultant negative publicity, regulatory fines and penalties, and impact upon your customer base.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-31026506001849444892024-03-11T10:50:00.001-04:002024-03-11T10:50:31.791-04:00ALERT: COUNTERFEIT VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT BONDS ARE BACK IN EUROPE<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFFErumg6Ti5uK8zJFFqBYbo-qI1QUTXJT4dCOwySRg4dW7WZRaGCHcCaL71KoAH0QNY22lhv5dx7jtzg2bdZ8X2IgBZSKHdnjPW_SNkm3R9LOpcbBTQz_-4raiL2CRggv823tztssu3pJVJvugej6LvGmHwr3te0cuDY002h59aed0Qk5rhfevRWyJxo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFFErumg6Ti5uK8zJFFqBYbo-qI1QUTXJT4dCOwySRg4dW7WZRaGCHcCaL71KoAH0QNY22lhv5dx7jtzg2bdZ8X2IgBZSKHdnjPW_SNkm3R9LOpcbBTQz_-4raiL2CRggv823tztssu3pJVJvugej6LvGmHwr3te0cuDY002h59aed0Qk5rhfevRWyJxo=w298-h400" width="298" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An email this morning from a reader in Poland reminded me that the counterfeit Venezuelan government bond scam is alive and well in the European Union. The originals of those bonds were cashed in years ago, and these color copies are being hawked to unsuspecting marks. Do Not trust ANY Venezuelan bonds, or purported official financial instruments, that assert that they are valid obligations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. You are strongly urged to read my article entitled " Avoid all Venezuelan government Bonds and Instruments, as Most are Bogus," <a href="https://rijock.blogspot.com/2014/04/avoid-all-venezuelan-government-bonds.html">https://rijock.blogspot.com/2014/04/avoid-all-venezuelan-government-bonds.html</a></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(April 27, 2014)</span></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-74885534433651285782024-03-09T15:51:00.002-05:002024-03-09T15:51:48.456-05:00HONG KONG'S IMPENDING ENACTMENT OF ITS DOMESTIC SECURITY LAW MEANS FOREIGN COMPLIANCE OFFICERS HAD BEST REFRAIN FROM TRAVEL THERE FOR ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE INQUIRIES<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_87PMnhv1QtJd-9yq2a-oGE4dWiYMBEjTl8knmkggkNwbyRnDvgWeGxyTJKUJJ118Te65DgiTaxiKOv9MZxmpzgaphba01T6nt5UyoydTrBmpZ_FnKnylAr8joV0Mh1LXVIDXh1DY2XZedv3Pg1YJvllEr0FWw8YZMIUgMzc3Cy2yMOL8uSw43jI7yFA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_87PMnhv1QtJd-9yq2a-oGE4dWiYMBEjTl8knmkggkNwbyRnDvgWeGxyTJKUJJ118Te65DgiTaxiKOv9MZxmpzgaphba01T6nt5UyoydTrBmpZ_FnKnylAr8joV0Mh1LXVIDXh1DY2XZedv3Pg1YJvllEr0FWw8YZMIUgMzc3Cy2yMOL8uSw43jI7yFA=w400-h209" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In case you aren't paying attention to news from China, Hong Kong's draconian Domestic Security Law, which provides for Life Sentences for those convicted of a number of offenses, is about to become law. Given that China takes the efforts of compliance officers to do a deep dive into Chinese companies as a breach of national security in many instances, any Western compliance officers who choose to travel there, to pursue enhanced due diligence inquiries, had best rethink such a trip.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is a real possibility that you might step on the toes of some Chinese company with powerful friends in government, or which needs to cover up systemic corruption, resulting in your arrest, summary trial, and imprisonment. It's not worth the personal risk, believe me, and do not buy into the PR statements that other countries have the same laws; China does NOT allow either a fair trial or Due Process in what it regards as political cases. Delegate your workload to HK residents, and do not go in person.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-8560141894199155112024-03-08T07:14:00.006-05:002024-03-08T07:14:41.049-05:00TRIAL JUDGE DECLINES TO SET ASIDE MONEY LAUNDERING JURY VERDICT FOR BVI PREMIER ANDREW FAHIE, CITING NO FACTUAL BASIS EXISTS. HE FACES A 10-YEARS-TO-LIFE SENTENCE IN MIAMI FEDERAL COURT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijcYZHSVHhiahPGf9ZC-JaDw8KI06DML15eddRH3JxYUEt1WyEdWZBx-ZiCZx3TPWSYsxJ7g2AEGU9nVwzP3V4cZ-RsHVBNJ84dEnDkuRsioec-2JiKL9tjR8c2H_3pydokPnBCojwe3DpvkHgStRw-bjHxNBMpJQxM9YX7nte03xPIh60FQMImlu8fYU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="201" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijcYZHSVHhiahPGf9ZC-JaDw8KI06DML15eddRH3JxYUEt1WyEdWZBx-ZiCZx3TPWSYsxJ7g2AEGU9nVwzP3V4cZ-RsHVBNJ84dEnDkuRsioec-2JiKL9tjR8c2H_3pydokPnBCojwe3DpvkHgStRw-bjHxNBMpJQxM9YX7nte03xPIh60FQMImlu8fYU=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The overblown brouhaha concerning allegations that there was no unanimous jury verdict convicting British Virgin Islands Premier ANDREW FAHIE of several crimes , including money laundering and cocaine trafficking, appears to have been much ado about nothing. The sentencing judge interviewed one of the two jurors who purportedly claimed she did not find him guilty on all counts, and she testified otherwise; the other juror pointedly evaded appearing before the Court, and the District Judge ruled that the conviction, after a jury trial, would stand. Was this simply a last-ditch effort by a corrupt BVI government official who was finally caught in the act? The evidence adduced at trial was, from an objective viewpoint, overwhelming. Not "my first rodeo," he said, but it seems to be now his last foray into the world of facilitating narcotics crime.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Fahie now awaits the Court's final decision; he will receive anywhere from a decade in Federal Prison to a Life Sentence, joining such other senior officials as the leaders of Panama and the Turks & Caicos Islands, who were also convicted and have gone before him to serve Federal time. The case put a dark spotlight upon the British Virgin Islands, home to the opaque corporations that every compliance officer dreads seeing in a due diligence inquiry, as he or she can never be sure if the ultimate beneficial owner is on the OFAC list, a known white collar criminal, or a terrorist financier.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Whether Fahie now will choose to identify some of the other bad actors in BVI government, or elsewhere in the East Caribbean states, we cannot say, but if he doesn't qualify for a Rule 35 Sentence Reduction by doing just that, he may die in custody. Other corrupt Caribbean leaders are certainly not sleeping soundly tonight.<br /></span></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-78932217184164361802024-03-07T10:45:00.002-05:002024-03-07T10:46:26.150-05:00ALERT ON WEALTHY HAMAS PEPS ESCAPING TO EGYPT; WHERE WILL THEY NOW SHOW UP OPENING BANK ACCOUNTS?<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBhU9D9Xr6CBpY_vgXC5EBkSMPF-fnsN47ZuhtM2GUkVu9EJ7ueaOlu_1WemV98AvSRAYf9wqm6UBdf9XelxCdnI37G_Ip97SH-tfc7Tlz-RQxaXMvDHSHkWvD1EF98auw1EM77JZ2CFkWOqMAKfRzsfuYX8pc1myhpDMHoEuLDvTSGfQsH4IVY8Ckq1E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBhU9D9Xr6CBpY_vgXC5EBkSMPF-fnsN47ZuhtM2GUkVu9EJ7ueaOlu_1WemV98AvSRAYf9wqm6UBdf9XelxCdnI37G_Ip97SH-tfc7Tlz-RQxaXMvDHSHkWvD1EF98auw1EM77JZ2CFkWOqMAKfRzsfuYX8pc1myhpDMHoEuLDvTSGfQsH4IVY8Ckq1E=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />Middle East media is now reporting that a large number of powerful Hamas officials, and the immediate family members of other senior leaders have bribed their way out of Gazam at the Rafah Crossing, into Egypt to escape capture or death by the attacking Israel Defense Forces. Apparently they can afford the going rate, several thousand US Dollars. These terrorist leaders, as well as the Politically Exposed Persons who are the relatives of others, will be traveling abroad, most likely with Jordanian or Lebanese passports, and given that their wealth constitutes terrorist funds, exercise extreme care in approving ANY Arabs with Palestinian accents and using slang common in the Territories, lest your bank ends up catching a criminal charge in the United States of Providing Material Support to a Designated Terrorist Organization, due to the US currency, or ends up targeted by the State of Israel.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Media articles have warned that relatives of these Hamas members are known to have fled Gaza through Egypt:</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hamas supreme leader, YAHYA SINWAR</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hamas Police spokesman, AYMAN AL-BATANJI</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hamas Polit-bureau member, SAMEH ELSRAJ</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hamas senior official, AKIL ALHINDI</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-16968020158465314542024-03-06T12:43:00.003-05:002024-03-06T12:43:22.886-05:00ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES RESUPPLY VESSEL, IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, MAY FURTHER RISE RISK LEVELS FOR EU-BOUND SHIPPING ALREADY DISRUPTED IN THE RED-SEA/GULF OF ADEN REGION, HELPING TBML<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHzeN5wA_VchET6iDmRFzI3Vo9B7_z6KafFgC8iQVXn8OZaApoSLpd2OxMmAj3RnygF78hibDgXmUrIPUsijpxZi2a_9Us5BRBiqNs9wfe55X94TdrF4TGMlCHstjIQDOSpoDaSuk4e7eOnUg3n5bqNFEhlaXx9iXVHwsgezpqB73xsA9Bc45A9MGPxrQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1560" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHzeN5wA_VchET6iDmRFzI3Vo9B7_z6KafFgC8iQVXn8OZaApoSLpd2OxMmAj3RnygF78hibDgXmUrIPUsijpxZi2a_9Us5BRBiqNs9wfe55X94TdrF4TGMlCHstjIQDOSpoDaSuk4e7eOnUg3n5bqNFEhlaXx9iXVHwsgezpqB73xsA9Bc45A9MGPxrQ=w400-h283" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Already beset with multiple problems, due to the Suez/Red Sea situation, this week the Chinese Coast Guard attacked a Philippine resupply vessel enroute to that country's EEZ with dual water cannon, shattering the ship's windshield, and injuring crew members. Trillions of dollars of consumer goods transit this route every year, en route to European consumer markets, and if risk levels are judged to significantly increase, we may be looking at yet another trade disruption situation to add to existing problems in Suez, Panama, and the Black Sea.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Philippines is a treaty ally of the United States, which has conducted extensive Freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea, and which may now choose to pursue an even more active role in confronting China's move to control the region, which it illegally claims is its sovereign territory, notwithstanding that there is no historical basis for the same, and which has interfered with lawful claims of many of its East Asian neighbors.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Will insurance rates rise, or routes to Europe from Asia be modified to avoid the region ? if this happens, you can bet that laundrymen running TBML programs will most certainly use this additional trade disruption to successfully move their clients' criminal proceeds within trade </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">transactions.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-91898033580387356572024-03-06T12:39:00.006-05:002024-03-06T12:39:47.939-05:00CARICOM ACTIONS WILL ONLY FACILITATE MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE EAST CARIBBEAN TAX HAVENS<p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3Mz9c1j7kQXwkyb26715VTzSbfRPqa_ELldPD8lsrUuHkaNbQQbBuod0-tLpeClsTW467ZVa_jzic1mxvXCDOWvkrYRcBXhRubf3FD4OzLjZf9AqB886lSwctUhrdBhbqE-_E9QHOmAoxpmByDRDR6p-6PlmESe_R5EBYLYy8G84q5twGzJIzn0R_dfs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="239" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3Mz9c1j7kQXwkyb26715VTzSbfRPqa_ELldPD8lsrUuHkaNbQQbBuod0-tLpeClsTW467ZVa_jzic1mxvXCDOWvkrYRcBXhRubf3FD4OzLjZf9AqB886lSwctUhrdBhbqE-_E9QHOmAoxpmByDRDR6p-6PlmESe_R5EBYLYy8G84q5twGzJIzn0R_dfs=w400-h352" width="400" /></a></div><br />Buried in the news from the East Caribbean today is the story about how the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will soon relax regulations that not only allow citizens from the countries in the region to indefinitely relocate anywhere within the EC, but more importantly, will allow mutual recognition of corporate entities ( companies) in all jurisdictions within the Community. Previously, companies from one EC state would have to file a completely new entity, if they wanted to enter the commercial sphere in another.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a former "professional" who spent a decade laundering money in the region, the ability to do "business" in one jurisdiction, with a company organized in another, will not only completely conceal beneficial ownership, but it will facilitate the ability of laundrymen to move into, and through, one jurisdiction, to clean dirty money, and just as fast, remove themselves from it, long before either compliance officers, regulators, or law enforcement agencies tumble to the fact that they are even operating there.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The current legal obstacle, requiring them to file new companies in every new jurisdiction, effectively slowed down laundrymen, but according to statements made by Barbados PM Mia Mottley, that practice is about to be abolished in the EC. Remember the Law of Unintended Consequences; CARICOM is unwittingly facilitating lightning-fast money laundering operations, which are light-years ahead of any ability to identify and interdict it in progress.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-34730828349961257062024-03-03T18:20:00.004-05:002024-03-03T18:20:46.362-05:00UUV-THE RED SEA AND THE GULF OF ADEN JUST GOT A LOT MORE DANGEROUS<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOmGmR8iPEbEkDx0OwjtzcQhAQcuoc4A0OmbnOGwcnYMFXLziV3D2pwPxTWIMmTwIdnGbRopkny2r6o6dJozHTTxgHhHLsAUDNTxqN04DFW7e0uTym9rkV3TxAmsNg5iZBZNzjHXpMsIQE2f5vcZPdevprtloFWb6W5pGuIpZtNpTgKJ87WSiUiQbXNwo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOmGmR8iPEbEkDx0OwjtzcQhAQcuoc4A0OmbnOGwcnYMFXLziV3D2pwPxTWIMmTwIdnGbRopkny2r6o6dJozHTTxgHhHLsAUDNTxqN04DFW7e0uTym9rkV3TxAmsNg5iZBZNzjHXpMsIQE2f5vcZPdevprtloFWb6W5pGuIpZtNpTgKJ87WSiUiQbXNwo=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br />If you paid attention in twentieth century history class when the professor discussed the Battle of the North Atlantic, you may recall that crews on board UK-bound supply ships during the Second World War feared the Nazi<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">U-Boats and their silent delivery of torpedoes which sent many a mariner to Davy Jones' Locker. The very recent appearance and deployment, by the Houthi insurgency, of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), or underwater drone, may be a game-changer when it comes to risk assessments by owners and insurers of Europe-bound merchant shipping transiting the Gulf of Aden/Red Sea region.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Inasmuch as there have been CENTCOM press releases picturing seizures of UUV components from Iran, destined for Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, the origin of these weapons is not in doubt, and they add an additional layer of danger to those vessels at sea in the area, even if they are diverting around the Cape of Good Hope. A potent, and even intimidating, addition to Houthi cruise missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles and aerial drones, all of which are currently active threats to shipping as well as warships seeking to protect shipping lanes, UUVs could scare shippers completely away from appoaching Suez altogether. Look at the Maersk route diversions on the company's website; how much of those are a response to new UUV threats, we wonder.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Of course, all these multiplying threats, which are clearly not being adequately met by Western military pushback, are just making the illicit business of trade-based money launderers easier to conduct, as all these violent threats have spawned a wide range of responses, none of which are uniform, and which therefore make identification of TBML extremely difficult by transaction monitors. It has gone from bad to worse, in my humble opinion. Whose Navy has an effective solution? Otherwise, it will continue to be Open Season for TBML. </span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-64102457151972102452024-03-03T13:53:00.007-05:002024-03-03T13:53:47.547-05:00HOUTHI ATTACKS AND U.S. REFINING PROBLEMS FACILITATE TRADE-BASED MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH PETROLEUM PAYMENTS<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZqN1MV9rJqE2hJ0EF94FybTTGPZagsfYUDvDElJK2RrNsL7Vr1W-VVoggURpE0EVAb15_AM8bw8yGqjBr_9XsLAk3mmjZB_b5ffkRyWS5xtilBh2EXHobe9LJidyy4MWSwI4_Jv58prW1atm-YQiS0efkKkn2H6WDvdzMmKoLcxRYdLtsKNT8ylxSKok" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="272" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZqN1MV9rJqE2hJ0EF94FybTTGPZagsfYUDvDElJK2RrNsL7Vr1W-VVoggURpE0EVAb15_AM8bw8yGqjBr_9XsLAk3mmjZB_b5ffkRyWS5xtilBh2EXHobe9LJidyy4MWSwI4_Jv58prW1atm-YQiS0efkKkn2H6WDvdzMmKoLcxRYdLtsKNT8ylxSKok=w400-h274" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Not only are oil prices in Europe rising, due to Houthi attacks on tankers, but refinery issues in the United States, regarding diesel that is ultimately exported to the EU, add up to a seesawing of pricing that only aids trade-based money laundering (TBML) activities.Where there is no established price basis for any commodity, it becomes impossible for compliance officers conducting transaction monitoring to accurately estimate the market price of anything on a given day, which is a golden opportunity for laundrymen involved in TBMl to move dirty money inside that commodity, and petroleum products.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Also, given the chaos amid the usual sheer volume of transactions involving oil being shipped into the EU for its consumption, bogus (phantom) transactions, where payments are made, although no commodity is actually being transported from producing countries, have a much lower risk of identification and interdiction by compliance officers. Remember, money launderers engaged in TBML are sensitive to every little price change, supply chain issue, disruption status, and intervening causes for such up-and-down market price effects, even on a daily basis. Catch them in the act, ladies & gentlemen in compliance, but being even more current to what's happening in the specific markets than they are.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-37467378870332111002024-03-03T13:50:00.002-05:002024-03-03T13:50:39.513-05:00MORE HOUTHI ATTACKS, UNDETERRED BY WESTERN WARSHIP DEFENSIVE ACTIONS, CONTINUE TO DESTABILIZE SHIPPING COSTS AND THEREBY AID ABML<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjatEUZjHGpI2hLXy_q6IwsUhwydJTuV3Yr0rXN8IecvNcsNAT8mmuqiJRqRfZKqv0nZBKdTA-1dbIoitDqi9bbKc9rWuYG6UtqiJh2jY5PRjrtrylklJNwLbpDpb-VFE1frVzNwT0zyO-C4JU6pc8B-I1Kws4zC0u89hSHa9sT5SrL7C_JPt8dil-lATM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="800" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjatEUZjHGpI2hLXy_q6IwsUhwydJTuV3Yr0rXN8IecvNcsNAT8mmuqiJRqRfZKqv0nZBKdTA-1dbIoitDqi9bbKc9rWuYG6UtqiJh2jY5PRjrtrylklJNwLbpDpb-VFE1frVzNwT0zyO-C4JU6pc8B-I1Kws4zC0u89hSHa9sT5SrL7C_JPt8dil-lATM=w400-h250" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For the first time since the modern German Navy was formed in the 1950s, it has fired a shot in anger. A German naval vessel repelled armed Houthi drones attacking it in the Red Sea recently. the warship is part of a new three-ship EU member task force sent to protect Europe-bound shipping.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The chaos in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea continues unabated, notwithstanding that the navies of several nations are shooting down Houthi missiles and drones, including undersea unmanned drones, which pose a new and feared weapon that can hit commercial shipping without warning. All this confusion, which drives up shipping costs, insurance prices, and crew salaries, due to increased risk, is like manna from heaven for Trade Based Money launderers. They are free to embed their criminal funds within legitimate charges, knowing that there is no rhyme or reason on what is normal or proper, and what is clearly</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span>excessive. It<span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">is truly a busman's holiday for laundrymen running TBML operations, with no gatekeepers who can determine, with accuracy, what's clean and what's money laundering through international trade payments.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-69042170661232118692024-03-03T13:46:00.006-05:002024-03-03T13:46:35.461-05:00GREENFIELD VS. BROWNFIELD INVESTMENT FRONT COMPANIES FOR MONEY LAUNDERING; WHICH IS BETTER/<p><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1PKn5K_RvkgttNO71Kl0XMUzRBGsgzv99EBF_VxVkea6p6fnSqqYlnnslrCqZ3ksAn8OfVLRsjr_1y3NJ3KAbDSOFv3pETBrBEkzxu_hECJXJLZWomBL1qZ6_wyJDuo0rJ_xPAb7Khv2seORO1jEKR0dNTiCt0F-T4s89fnp4y1hkk_wSqyqeSVG6VnM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1PKn5K_RvkgttNO71Kl0XMUzRBGsgzv99EBF_VxVkea6p6fnSqqYlnnslrCqZ3ksAn8OfVLRsjr_1y3NJ3KAbDSOFv3pETBrBEkzxu_hECJXJLZWomBL1qZ6_wyJDuo0rJ_xPAb7Khv2seORO1jEKR0dNTiCt0F-T4s89fnp4y1hkk_wSqyqeSVG6VnM=w400-h224" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Laundrymen often differ when it comes to which types of front companies they believe are the "safest,"meaning lowest risk of exposure, types of front companies, when moving criminal proceeds. One might draw a parallel with the choice that legitimate investors face in the international arena, whether to acquire an existing business (Brownfield), or starting up a new one from scratch (Greenfield).</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Let's discuss the reasons why money launderers gravitate toward opening shell companies, using and abusing those entities for criminal purposes, and then abruptly abandoning them, then leaving them to be administratively dissolved for non payment of fees and non-filing of the names of officers and directors. Such an approach means that, outside of straw men, the clients, or anyone else linked to a criminal enterprise, is ever publicly known, as there are zero information filings.The disadvantages are that it is a new company with no prior existence, no tax and regulatory filings, as is unknown in the legitimate business community, all of which indicia give the public, and law enforcement agencies, a feeling that it is just another active business. The advantage is that a new company has no baggage which you might not know when you acquire it.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now, let's look a the advantages of buying, obtaining control, or gaining operational power, over an existing company. You can trade on its longevity, goodwill in its specific industry or trade, credit rating, employees known to their clients and customers, and time it has been at a brick-and-mortar location, open to the public. Companies in dire need of financing, in default of loans past due, with regulatory problems, in a declining industry or economically depressed geographical area, all are susceptible to being acquired, the subject of covert partner investments, or even extortion. the end result is the laundryman gains an operational company through which to ply his dark trade.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Some money launderers use both techniques, depending on their clients' needs, the urgency of the situation, and their risk appetite. Whatever their vehicle or entity, you can catch them in the act, provided that you are intimately familiar with the wide range of tradecraft, the typologies they tend to employ, because it is those trick of their trade which, if you recognize them early on, you can shut them down. Knowledge, when it comes to AML compliance, is not only power, it is everything.</span></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-61753941872756855572024-02-29T06:08:00.000-05:002024-02-29T06:08:10.522-05:00IS ANYONE PUTTING MIAMI'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LUXURY CONDOMINIUM BUYERS UNDER A MICROSCOPE?<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnHeyChTQoIm_wHLBdGmDeC6Lo0MdCdiNdEkzW4rvBt30BW_ygySG0VxgWNg7C9JI0OYtvjRGHbXctGqL4jAuxw6qwwWu5VitHVqccvD983jrdJfBLXwP3VweeNSgdqrXuHlnrumqcVuCvXo-uhUtZehpWYz09ObYER64wbV6HDYeNJWgFjgJUlr39NfI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="640" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnHeyChTQoIm_wHLBdGmDeC6Lo0MdCdiNdEkzW4rvBt30BW_ygySG0VxgWNg7C9JI0OYtvjRGHbXctGqL4jAuxw6qwwWu5VitHVqccvD983jrdJfBLXwP3VweeNSgdqrXuHlnrumqcVuCvXo-uhUtZehpWYz09ObYER64wbV6HDYeNJWgFjgJUlr39NfI=w400-h153" width="400" /></a></div><br />If you are paying attention to the huge number of branded ultra-high luxury condominiums going up like mad in Downtown Miami, and in its Brickell Avenue financial/residential district, between now and 2030, you are wondering aloud just how many of these units, most of which start at $3.5 million and up, must be cash purchases, which are now in the spotlight due to FinCEN's upcoming regulation affecting residential real estate, making the entire United States one big Geographical Targeting Order (GTO).<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I know that if I was still in the laundering game, and remembering that everything in Miami is cyclical (in the 1980s, Miami went through a similar Brickell Avenue building boom), you can bet money that professionals who still toil in that dark and sordid business have come up with some extremely inventive and imaginative workarounds to evade not only the letter of the impending FinCEN regs, but the spirit of them as well. Think the use of foreign "financial institutions" as closing agents which are, in truth and in fact, captives of the laundrymen setting up those deals. Think bogus financing arrangements cleverly structured to artfully blend in with the legitimate closings, but which feature under-the-table cash payments that developers anxious to repay massive and expensive construction loans forthwith. Think tricks that have not yet been invented yet in finance, but which are taken from covert tactics in non-financial industries to hide capital.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In short, U.S. law enforcement should set up a task force in South Florida, mich like the one under then-Vice President George HW Bush in the 1980s, to catch the dirty money, before it is invested in those expensive condos. Otherwise, like the expensive oceanfront buildings on Miami Beach, dirty money will end up cleaned and dried in our Downtown structures, and some of our banks will subsequently pay the price for not catching the bad actors timely.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-67891850663711163842024-02-29T05:11:00.005-05:002024-02-29T05:11:43.970-05:00A 40 MONTH SENTENCE FOR MOVING $42 MILLION IS INSUFFICIENT TO DETER OTHERS <h1 class="page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #162e51; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1rem 0px 0px;"><span class="field-formatter--string" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Professional Money Launderer Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Transmitting $42 Million</span></h1><div class="node-top" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; display: flex; font-family: "Public Sans Web", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="node-top-left" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-basis: 50%; margin-right: 2rem;"><div class="node-language-switcher" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1rem;"></div><div class="node-date" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-formatter--datetime-default field_date" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><time datetime="2024-02-16T12:00:00Z" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Friday, February 16, 2024</time></div></div></div><div class="node-share" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="usdoj-sharing" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; position: relative;"><button aria-controls="sharing-links" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Share" class="usdoj-sharing-toggle" style="background-color: #07648d; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: white; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding-left: 1rem;" tabindex="0" type="button"><span class="toggle-text" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Share</span><span class="toggle-icon" style="border-left: 1px solid white; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1rem; padding: 0.375rem 0.75rem;"><img alt="right caret" aria-hidden="true" height="6" src="https://www.justice.gov/themes/custom/usdoj_uswds/assets/img/angle-arrow-right-white.svg" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 0.4rem;" width="6" /></span></button></div></div></div></div><div class="node-top-right" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-basis: 50%;"><div class="node-info-box" style="background-color: #f6f6f2; border-left: 4px solid rgb(255, 190, 46); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; display: block; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;">For Immediate Release</span><div class="node-office" style="box-sizing: inherit;">U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California</div></div></div></div><div class="node-body" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-family: "Public Sans Web", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">SAN DIEGO –Jesus Vazquez Padilla of Tijuana was sentenced in federal court today to 40 months in custody for the unlicensed transmission of more than $42 million of illicit proceeds derived from the sale of drugs across the United States.</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">According to court records, between January 4, 2016 and May 24, 2019, Vazquez Padilla led the operation of an illegal unlicensed money transmission business by using 22 shell corporations and 85 corporate bank accounts at various U.S. banks to launder drug sale proceeds. Using the corporate bank accounts, Vazquez Padilla and his co-conspirators offered money transmitting services to the public for a fee by performing tasks that included: (1) depositing cash at financial institutions throughout the United States; (2) transferring money by wire, checks, and inter-bank transfers, and (3) transferring money to Mexico on behalf of third parties. </p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">“The complexity of this money laundering operation was remarkable but as it unraveled so did the string of drug proceeds into the coffers of the cartels,” said U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath. “The United States will prosecute not only the drug traffickers, but also the facilitators who cannot out-maneuver justice.”</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">“Mr. Vasquez Padilla knowingly and willingly subverted laws that protect our financial institutions from becoming unwitting pawns in funding transnational crime and terrorism,” said Special Agent in Charge Tyler Hatcher, IRS Criminal Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office. “Furthermore, by moving over $42 million in drug money, Mr. Vasquez Padilla and his co-conspirators’ put our sons and daughters at risk of becoming statistics in the drug crisis we face as a country. IRS Criminal Investigation is committed to following the money to bring criminals like Mr. Vasquez Padilla to justice.”</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">In total, Vazquez Padilla’s business deposited $42,276,668 into the U.S. financial system. Of those deposits, approximately 95 percent of those funds were transferred to third party bank accounts in Mexico. The remaining 5 percent constituted the business’ fee for transmitting the funds.</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">Under U.S. law, a money transmission business must register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Treasury; file Currency Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports; and maintain an effective anti-money laundering compliance program. Vazquez Padilla did not comply with any of these requirements.</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">On December 5, 2022, Vazquez-Padilla’s co-conspirator, Jose Gonzalez, was sentenced to 30 months’ custody for operating an unlicensed money transmission business and for assisting in the preparation of false tax returns related to the conspiracy. Gonzalez helped Vazquez Padilla open approximately 11 shell corporations and then, to create a veneer of legitimacy, Gonzalez filed federal tax returns on behalf of 10 of the shell corporations in tax years 2016 and 2017. In doing so, Gonzalez invented $19,615,192 in false and fictitious deductions so the shell corporations would not owe taxes.</p><p class="text-align-justify" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">On December 18, 2023, another co-conspirator, Juan Medina, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in custody for operating an unlicensed money transmission business. Despite knowing the laundered money represented illegal drug proceeds, Medina helped Vazquez Padilla open bank accounts for the shell corporations to enable the money laundering.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Vazquez Padilla’s sister and co-conspirator, Monica Vazquez, remains at large.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Beeler and Carl Brooker of the Southern District of California are prosecuting the case.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">DEFENDANT</u></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"> Case Number 22-CR-1551-RBM </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Jesus Vazquez Padilla Age: 47 Tijuana, Mexico</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">DEFENDANT</u></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"> Case Number 22-CR-1472-W </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Jose Gonzalez Age: 52 San Diego, California</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">DEFENDANT</u></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"> Case Number 22-CR-1473-RBM </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Juan Medina Age: 42 San Diego, California</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">SUMMARY OF CHARGES</u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmission Business – Title 18, U.S.C., Sections 371, 1960</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Maximum penalty: Five years in prison, $250,000 fine; forfeiture and restitution</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">AGENCY</u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; word-break: break-word;">Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation</p></div></div></div><div class="node-contact" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-family: "Public Sans Web", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #162e51; font-weight: bolder;">Contact</span><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_contact" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Media Relations Director Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726 or <a href="mailto:Kelly.Thornton@usdoj.gov" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0064a8; word-break: break-word;">Kelly.Thornton@usdoj.gov</a> </span></p><div><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-87069132558947932652024-02-27T21:20:00.001-05:002024-02-27T21:20:46.622-05:00READ THE CIVIL SUIT FILED IN BARBADOS BY JERRY NURSE AGAINST CHRISTOPHER BLACKMAN QC AND ATTORNEY GENERAL DALE MARSHALL QC FOR PROBATE AND REAL ESTATE FRAUD<div class="adn ads" data-legacy-message-id="18ded332fc06377d" data-message-id="#msg-f:1792101917670127485" style="background-color: white; border-left: none; color: #222222; display: flex; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;"><div class="gs" style="margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: initial;"><div class=""><div class="ii gt" id=":1h4" jslog="20277; u014N:xr6bB; 1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWY6MTc5MjEwMTkxNzY3MDEyNzQ4NXxtc2ctZjoxNzkyMTAxOTE3NjcwMTI3NDg1Il0.; 4:WyIjbXNnLWY6MTc5MjEwMTkxNzY3MDEyNzQ4NSJd" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":1h3" style="direction: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: auto hidden; position: relative;"><div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">CV: 1266 OF 1997</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">CIVIL DIVISION</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AMENDED CLAIM FORM</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> BETWEEN</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> CLAIMANT <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> AND</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR BLACKMAN QC <wbr></wbr> 1<sup>st</sup> DEFENDANT</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AND</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ATTORNEY GENERAL HONOURABLE DALE MARSHAL QC 2<sup>nd</sup> DEFENDANT</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Prepared for filing by:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Acting as his own Attorney on Records</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Administrator to Fitzgerald Callender deceased Estate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I, JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of Hill View Ridge, Gibbons Boggs, in the parish of Christ Church, in this Island <b>HEREBY MAKE OATH</b> and say as follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1. I am over 18 years of age and entitled to make this Affidavit.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> resides at Hill View Ridge, Gibbon Boggs, in the parish of Christ Church.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">3. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> is the <b>14<sup>th</sup> day of November 2001</b> Duly Appointed Administrator Cum Testamento Annexo de Bonis Non to the <b>Estate of Fitzgerald Callender deceased</b> alias (Gerald Callender deceased).</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">4. The DEFENDANT Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC fraudulently<b> </b>possessed Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) 23<sup>rd</sup> September 1965 Probated Estate is fully aware his actions were fraudulent and he was not an Attorney at Law when Fitzgerald Callender died on the 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964 or when the deceased Estate was probated. Mr C.A> Blackman became a Law Student and was called to the Bar in June 1970.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">5. <b>The DEFENDANT Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC</b> beyond all reasonable doubt with preconceived expectations in collusion with Supreme Court Registration Department personnel and the Crown Solicitors and the Solicitor General fraudulently created the estate of Gerald Callender deceased the 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964 and the 334 -27<sup>th</sup> January 1966 Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties Clearance Certificate (Section 29 (3) of the Succession Act), either well knowing that their actions were fraudulent and based on an “untruth” or they were reckless not caring whether their actions were true or false, but that it should be acted upon.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">6. The testator <b>Fitzgerald Callender died 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964</b> on this Island at Barbados General Hospital, and at his death was the owner of the “California Guest House Property”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">7. Gerald Callender deceased by his last <b>Will dated 10<sup>th</sup> day of September 1962</b> appointed Mr Norman Legall of Whitehall, Saint Michael, his Executor.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">8. Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg of Carrington & Sealy Solicitors / Attorneys at Law made an Application to the Supreme Court Probate Division for Letters of Administration for Executor - Norman Legall, dated issued 8<sup>th</sup> February 1967 to the Estate of GERALD CALLENDER and not the Estate of FITZGERALD CALLENDER (deceased).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">9. There is on Record a Grant <b>of Letters of Administration</b> and not a <b>Grant of Probate</b> to the said <b>Executor Norman Legall,</b> dated <b>8<sup>th</sup> February 1967</b>. The <b>Application</b> and <b>Advertising was done in May 1966</b> of the Application to Administer the <b>Estate of GERALD CALLENDER deceased</b> and not the <b>Estate of FITZGERALD CALLENDER deceased.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">10. The Grant of Letters of Administration to the said Executor Norman Legall are signed in Block Capital Letters and do not represent a true signature - to make believe to be that of <b>Chief Justice William Randolph Douglas QC</b> (deceased 2003) and that of <b>Acting </b>/ <b>Supreme Court Registrar Mr Elliott Belgrave QC (2018 Governor General retired).</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">11. Norman Legall died 4<sup>th</sup> day of December 1968</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> without administering any part of 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964 Fitzgerald Callender deceased Estate, certified by Carrington & Sealy Attorneys at Law in that Law Firm 20<sup>th</sup> July 1982 letter to Attorney at Law Mr Keith A.E. Mayers QC.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">12. At no time whatsoever has the testator Fitzgerald Callender deceased correct name identified upon the deceased Death Certificate been used in Supreme Court Grants of Letters of Administration to <b>1967 Norman Legall</b> or 1976 <b>Appointed Mrs Lilian Drakes.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">13. Fitzgerald Callender's (deceased) last will have at no time whatsoever been read to the estate's legitimate named beneficiaries, neither were the beneficiaries provided a copy of the said will by the Estate Representatives (Carrington & Sealy Solicitors / Attorneys at Law and neither were the beneficiaries contacted at any time.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">14. Barbados Supreme Court Registration Department since the testator's death has failed to provide the beneficiaries a Certified Copy of Fitzgerald Callender's deceased (WILL).</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">15. <b>March 1993</b>, Barbados Supreme Court Registration Department irrefutably sent London, <b>England Foreign & Commonwealth Secretary Honourable Douglas Hurd QC</b> falsified Probate Documents and will to an Estate of Gerald Callender, via Barbados British Embassy as the Estate of Fitzgerald Callender deceased and the said (will) failed including the testator wife, sons and daughters as specifically devised and bequeathed in the deceased correct last will used by Attorney at Law Mr Keith A.E. Mayers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">16. The said Pegwell, California Guest-House Specifically Devised & Bequeathed Property in the parish of Christ Church under the terms of Fitzgerald Callender's deceased last will “Was Not to be Sold” but was given to CLINTON NURSE and ERNESTA NURSE as “Life Tenants” nephew and niece of the deceased, with a <b>“GIFT OVER”</b> to their children. <b>Recorded No. 334 of 27<sup>th</sup> January 1966</b> <b>Estate & Succession Duties Estate Clearance Certificate Statement of Account “D”.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">17. The intention of a testator is of paramount importance and must be complied with. Under the terms of the said (will) Fitzgerald Gerald Callender (deceased) directed that the property known as “California Guest House is <b>“NOT TO BE SOLD”</b> and “Specifically Devised and Bequeathed a <b>“LIFE INTEREST” </b>to his nephew Clinton Nurse and to his niece Ernesta Nurse, with a “Carried over Interest to their siblings.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">18. Wording of Fitzgerald Callender's (deceased) last Will & Testament regarding CLAIMANT Inheritance.</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> The paragraph regarding the CLAIMANT Inheritance in the last Will & Testament of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) clearly states in the (deceased) WILL:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">a. (Verbatim) “Open”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> The words of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased); “My property which is called California situated at Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church <b>is not to be sold”.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">b. “I direct my said Executor” that the Top Floor</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of the said property is to be given to <b>“CLINTON NURSE”</b> as a living for his life, and at his death, the same living is to be given to his CHILDREN”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">c. “I also direct my said Executor” that “ERNESTA NURSE”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> is to have a living on the <b>Second Floor</b> of the said premises for her LIFE, and at her death, her CHILDREN shall continue to have the same living on the said premises”. <b>“(Close”).</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">19. <b>Barbados Revenue Authority Estate Clearance Certificate Section 28 (3) of the Succession Act. Cap. 249 - Folio: 549 - N0.79 - Date 2015.03.05</b>, stipulates:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“In the matter of the Estate of <b>FITZGERALD CALLENDER</b> deceased late of Pilgrim Road, Christ Church.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“I hereby certify that a statement of the assets in this estate at the date of death <b>5.18.1964</b> has been delivered to me. Details of these assets together with their respective values are set out on the following page (s).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“I further certify that on the basis of this disclosure, and on other information supplied, <b>all Taxes, Duties and other Payments due to the Crown and collected by this Department have been discharged.”</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">20. 18<sup>th</sup> September 1975 Attorney at Law Mr. Hamish Greig McClurg</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> filed “A Power of Attorney” the Supreme Court Land Registration Department given to <b>Mrs Lillian Drakes for Administration of Pegwell, Christ Church,</b> specifically devised and bequeathed California Guest House on behalf of a Mr Ronald Walter Springer and a Mr Edwin Callender as beneficiaries of the said Pegwell, California Guest House in Fitzgerald Callender deceased last will; as the deceased name Gerald Callender.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">21. <b>Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg</b> stated in his letter dated 20<sup>th</sup> July 1982 addressed to Attorney at Law Mr Keith A. E. Mayers QC, “At the time of Gerald Callender's death, we were engaged in the sale of one or two spots of land and the “<b>Account was $5.420.60 in debt”</b> due to payments made on behalf of the estate by tenants.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">22. <b>Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg</b> stated in his <b>20<sup>th</sup> July 1982</b> letter addressed to Attorney at Law Mr Keith A.E. Mayers QC: “We were eventfully requested by the beneficiaries of the property at Pegwell, Christ Church to take steps to complete administration on their portion of the estate; We succeeded in having Letters of Administration issued to Mrs Lillian Drakes Limited to that part of the estate and that Administration was completed sometime in 1977”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">23. <b>Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg</b> in his letter dated <b>28<sup>th</sup> September 1990</b> addressed to Supreme Court Registrar Marie Mac Cormack, wrote and stated: Gerald Callender by his last will “specifically devised and bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House unto relatives Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse”. (Registrar Mac Cormack was aware of Fitzgerald Callender's (deceased) Estate and the fraudulent Gerald Callender's (deceased) Estate.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">24. <b>Mr Justice Christopher Arthur Blackman QC</b> formerly “Senior Partner and Part Owner of Carrington & Sealy Attorneys at Law” (unlawfully) made themselves Administrators / Representors of 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964 Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) enormous estate, under the <b>deceased nickname GERALD CALLENDER,</b> collected rents and distributed the Estate in capacity of Personal Representatives.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">25. Carrington and Sealy Solicitors/Attorneys at Law <b>refused to have Fitzgerald Callender's deceased last will read to the legitimate beneficiaries</b> and to provide the beneficiaries a copy of the deceased will and the date the will was read.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">26. Carrington and Sealy Solicitors/Attorneys at Law refused to have Gerald Callender's deceased will read to the legitimate beneficiaries and to provide the beneficiaries with a copy of the will and the date the will was read.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 27. The Supreme Court Registration Department from Fitzgerald Callender's 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964 death to this present 2024 period has failed to provide the beneficiaries a copy of Fitzgerald Callender's deceased will and the date the will was read to the beneficiaries.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">28. The Claimant became aware of the fraud and malpractice of the <b>12<sup>th</sup> March 1976 Limited Grant of Letters of Administration Cum Testamento de Bonis Non</b> Limited to part of the estate of the (deceased) namely, the said Pegwell, Christ Church, “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed California Guest-House” and another property situate at Pilgrim Road in the parish of Christ Church were granted to <b>Mrs Lillian Drakes, (since deceased 31<sup>st</sup> May 1995)</b> late of Pavilion Road, Bank Hall in the parish of Saint Michael as Attorney on Record in this Island for one Ronald Walter Springer and Edwin Callender as beneficiaries to the said Pegwell Property under GERALD CALLENDER (deceased) (WILL annexed).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">29. <b>Mrs Lillian Drakes</b> Grant of Limited Letters of Administration was granted under <b>Fraudulent Representation to the Probate Division of the Supreme Court.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">30. <b>GERALD CALLENDER (deceased) (WILL)</b> identifies legitimate named beneficiaries Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse (Life Interest) in the Pegwell, Christ Church “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed California Guest-House.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">31. <b>Neither Clinton Nurse nor Ernesta Nurse</b> requested or appointed Mrs Lillian Drakes or Carrington & Sealy Law Firm as their representatives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">32. <b>Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg</b> acted fraudulently and dishonestly employed by the person named Edwin Callender, certified in Edwin Callender <b>11<sup>th</sup> March 1974 Recorded Delivery letter to Mrs Lillian Drakes</b> instructing <b>“Mr McClurg to get on with my will</b>” – our business”. Stating:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">a. <b>“He no longer needs Clinton Nurse</b> because he has already sold what belongs to him”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">b. “He, (Mr McClurg), has Ronald Springer's address and he knows my father’s other children's attorney”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">33. <b>GERLAD Callender (deceased Will makes no provisions for Edwin Callender’s mother Alfretta Couse Callender and his brother and three sisters.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">34. <b>GERALD Callender (DECEASED)</b> Barbados Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties <b>Clearance Certificate – N0. 334, Section 29 (3) of the Succession Act dated the 27<sup>th</sup> January 1966,</b> Statement of Account “D” identifies <b>Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse</b> (Joint Life Interest Owners of the <b>(Debt Free Recorded</b>) Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">35. The Barbados Inland Revenue Statement of Account D</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, further discloses property devised and bequeathed to <b>the deceased wife Alfretta Couse Callender</b>, <b>son – Fitzgerald Callender,</b> Edwin Callender and <b>daughters Anita Stewart and Velma Moses</b> who is unmentioned in the deceased Gerald Callender (WILL), contributing fraud, malpractice and deception that has been excepted by Barbados Supreme Court and Inland Revenue Probate Department.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">36. <b>Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse's names were irrefutably fraudulently replaced </b>with Ronald Walter Springer and Edwin Callender as owners of the California Guest House, even though they are unmentioned in the will as owners of the California Guest House.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">37. The Barbados Inland Revenue Statement of Account D,</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> further fraudulently discloses <b>EDWIN CALLENDER (unlawful son)</b> specifically devised and bequeathed <b>Bungalow New York,</b> situated on Pilgrim Road in the parish of Christ Church.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">38. Barbados Revenue Authority Estate Clearance Certificate Section 28 (3) of the Succession Act. Cap. 249 - Folio: 549 - N0.79 - Date 2015.03.05, stipulates: “In the matter of the Estate of FITZGERALD CALLENDER deceased late of Pilgrim Road, Christ Church.” “Statement of Account “D” Specifically Devised and Bequeath Bungalow New York to “Ernest Joseph Callender” the testator's eldest first born son 19<sup>th</sup> September 1922 who mysteriously died. Barbados Water Authority Monthly/Quarterly Bill was in Ernest Callender's name until May 1992 when I changed the service into my name.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 39. <b>Edwin Callender is a bogus name.</b> His correct name is Fitzgerald Callender born the 6<sup>th</sup> day of June 1934 and was named after his testator father and was the brother of Ernest Joseph Callender. Fitzgerald Callender died on the 16<sup>th</sup> day of March 1992 and is buried at <b>Section 67</b>, Site 1938 in Calverston National Cemetery 210 Princeton Boulevard Rt 25 Calverston, <b>New York (11)</b> 933.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">40. Carrington and Sealy Attorneys at Law</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> fraudulently colluded with Fitzgerald Callender deceased 16<sup>th</sup> day of March 1992 and created Gerald Callender's deceased estate in further collusion with the <b>Supreme Court Registrar Colin Andrew Rocheford QC</b> and was promised Bungalow New York</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">41. All actions executed by the DEFENDANT Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC, in the <b>Estates of Fitzgerald Callender deceased 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964 and Gerald Callender deceased the 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964 are fraudulent </b>inasmuch Fitzgerald Callender deceased and Gerald Callender deceased both <b>share the same date of death and Death Certificates No.609, Pilgrim Road Christ Church residential address, Burial Certificate No.11, the exact same Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties - Listed Assets $59.633.59</b>, Five Bank Accounts, Estate Tenants and <b>Percy Hinds Funeral Directors Funeral Home Payments.</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">42. The DEFENDANT, Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC, </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was in June 1987 thereabouts was appointed a Barbados Senator and abused his “Power of Authority” by fraudulently (Registering in Barbados Cooperation Affairs Department) Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed” Pegwell, Christ Church California Guest House as his own property he has also Registered in his “Offshore Account” that has been exposed in the Paradise Papers, either well knowing that his actions were fraudulent and based on an “untruth” or he was reckless not caring whether his actions were true or false, but that it should be acted upon.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">43. The DEFENDANT, Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC, </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">fraudulent action regarding the specifically devised and bequeathed California Guest House contributed to years of suffering to the property owners Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse and their children. Ernesta Nurse died age fifty-nine (59) hospitalized in London in May 1991 and Clinton Nurse died on the 28<sup>th</sup> day of November 2008 hospitalized in Barbados Queen Elizabeth Hospital without having the usage and enjoyment of their May 1964 inheritance that was Probated in Fitzgerald Callender deceased 23<sup>rd</sup> of September 1965 Barbados Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties Clearance Certificate Section 28 (3) of the Succession Act.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">44. The DEFENDANT, Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC,</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> was under no circumstances whatsoever requested by Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) Estate beneficiaries, especially Clinton Nurse and Ernest Nurse to represent them in the testator estate and the Defendant cannot produce any Supreme Court Affidavit proof of his legal authorization to represent the deceased estate and disbursement of assets.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">45. Despite his wrongdoings, the <b>DEFENDANT, Attorney at Law Christopher Arthur Blackman QC</b> was appointed Barbados (High Court Judge in June 2003) and the herein CLAIMANT Writ of Summons No.1266 of 1997 was spitefully Set Down for Hearing three months later by <b>Chief Justice Sir David A.C. Simmons QC</b> for Thursday the <b>18<sup>th</sup> day of September 2003</b> “In Conflict of Interest” before the DEFENDANT. The CLAIMANT suffered “Deformation of Character when he was deliberately wrongfully arrested on falsified assault charges and imprisoned for seven (7) days in Barbados Glendairy Prison. Pictures of the Claimant were broadcast on the Caribbean Broadcasting Television and the front pages of Barbados National Newspapers. The Claimant was in June 2004 ordered to pay the Court $1.500.00 for an incident that never occurred whilst <b>the DEFENDANT Justice Christopher Blackman QC</b> fraudulently continued his enjoyment possession of our inheritance, the <b>“Specifically Devised and Bequeathed California Guest House”.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">PARTICULARS OF FRAUD</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">27<sup>th</sup> January 1966, Inland Revenue and Supreme Court Registration Department Recorded – <b>334 January 27<sup>th</sup> 1966 Estate of Gerald Callender (deceased) 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964</b>; “California Guest-House, Pegwell, Christ Church,<b> Valuation</b> <b>$18.000.00,</b> Estate & Succession Duties Clearance Certificate Statement of Account “D” <b>$330.83.00</b> and Estate Duties <b>$511.59.00</b> Individually Paid in the names of legitimate beneficiaries <b>Clinton Nurse</b> and <b>Ernesta Nurse who are </b>the property legitimate Joint Life Interest Owners under <b>Section 28 (3) Succession Act Barbados </b>and recorded the <b>California Guest House “Free of Debts and Creditors”.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been advised and verily believe the Personal Representatives must preserve, protect and properly Administer the Assets of the Estate with due diligence. Carrington & Sealy Solicitors (Attorneys at Law acted in collusion with members of Barbados Supreme Court Registration Department having the testator <b>“Solvent Estate”</b> the property known as “California Guest House” situated in Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church, formerly part of <b>(Eldridge Plantation)</b> repeatedly advertised in Barbados Government Official Gazette Newspapers for Supreme Court Chief Marshal Registration Building Official Public Auction Judgement Sale by Acting Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King on 14<sup>th</sup> day of July 1967. <b>They were aware their actions were fraudulent and based on an untruth but were reckless not caring whether their actions were true or false.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been advised and verily believe <b>Carrington & Sealy Solicitors (Attorneys at Law</b> acted in collusion with members of <b>Barbados Supreme Court Registration Department,</b> namely, 1995 Solicitor General (retired) <b>Mr Woodbine August Davis QC, Crown Solicitors Mr Hartley S.L. Mosley QC and Mr George A. A. Maynard QC</b> having the testator <b>“Solvent Estate”</b> especially that property known as the <b>“California Guest House” </b>deceitfully sold by <b>Acting Chief Marshal Mr Frank DeCourcey King</b> to Deputy Chief Marshal <b>Mr Kenneth Wilford Griffith </b>for Nine Thousand Barbados <b>($9.000.00) Dollars </b>when the property had a recent <b>Appraised Value of $29.600.00</b>, <b>aware that their actions were fraudulent and based on an untruth, but were reckless not caring whether their actions were true or false.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Estate Representatives did not exercise due care and attention concerning investigating whether the Estate Inland Revenue Estate Duty Clearance Certificate Register listed the “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed” Pegwell, Christ Church California Guest House Property <b>“Free from Debt” </b>and whether Mr Fitzgerald Callender deceased was indebted to Wilkinson & Challenor Limited, known as (Manning).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Irrefutably, the records show, twice in <b>1966, Carrington & Sealy Solicitors </b>received Copies of <b>Fitzgerald Callender’s </b>“<b>Certified</b> <b>Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties Clearance Certificates </b>from<b> Barbados Supreme Court Registrar </b>that certifies the “Specifically Devised and Bequeathed” “<b>California Guest House was Free of Debts and Creditors”.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">There is no “Recorded Evidence on Record” in the Supreme Court Registration Department or Archives of Barbados recording the existence of the $1.245.36 debt to Wilkinson & Chandler Limited, or a Judgement against <b>Fitzgerald Callender deceased, or GERALD CALLENDER (deceased,</b> or instructions to Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King to sell the Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House property, certified by the <b>Supreme Court Registrar Madam Justice Marie Mac Cormack QC in her 28<sup>th</sup> April 1994</b> letter addressed to the herein Claimant, and was known to <b>Chief Justice Gibson QC.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been advised and verily believe Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Supreme Court Land Registration Conveyance N0.798 Recorded the 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967 Auction Sale of Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House Property was without a <b>Supreme Court Writ of Execution</b> or instructions to Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King to sell the property.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been further advised and believe Deputy Chief Marshal Mr Kenneth Wilford Griffith could not have received <b>“Title to Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest-House Property”</b> in his name – “It is expressed by law and is illegal” under <b>1904/06 Provost Marshal Act Section 50.</b> Mr Kenneth Wilford Griffith who at the time was Deputy Chief Marshal and Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King by law, is expressly prohibited from selling the same.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Judgement Sale of the said Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest-House Property was purported done for debt, but the said Estate & Succession Duties Estate Clearance Certificate Documentation clearly shows that the Estate was not only “Solvent” but had enough cash to clear the supported debt.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">There exist no Records in Barbados Inland Revenue Account or the Auditor General or </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elsewhere of Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King $9.000.00 Proceeds of Sale of the said Pegwell Property.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Gerald Callender 10<sup>th</sup> day of September 1962 Supreme Court Recorded last will has not been read or a copy given to Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse named beneficiaries of the 1964 newly built California Guest House situated in Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church. Neither has a date of the <b>“Reading of the Will”</b> given to <b>Clinton Nurse</b> who at the date of the testator death was residing in Brooklyn in New York in the United States of America from <b>1951</b> and to <b>Ernesta Nurse</b> who was <b>eleven years (11)</b> later was residing in London in England from<b> June</b> <b>1962</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The wording of Gerald Callender's Will Regarding my Inheritance</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">: The paragraph regarding my inheritance in the last Will & Testament of <b>Gerald Callender (deceased)</b> clearly states in the deceased Will: <b>(Verbatim) “Open”</b> The words of Gerald Callender: “My property which is called California situated at Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church, <b>“Is not to be Sold”.</b> “I direct my said <b>Executor</b> that the top floor of the said premises is to be given to “<b>Clinton Nurse” as a living for his life</b> and at his death the same living is to be left for his children.” “I also direct my said <b>Executor that “Ernesta Nurse” is to have a living on the second floor of the said premises for her life</b> and at her death “her children” shall continue to have the same living on the said premises.” <b>“Close.”</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Barbados Civil List Records attests</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Frank DeCourcey King was born on the <b>18<sup>th</sup> day of November 1930</b> and was appointed Chief Marshal and Sargeant-at-Arms <b>5<sup>th</sup> day of March 1968</b> with an <b>Annual $5.400.00 Salary. </b>The Civil List Records are fraudulent, the fraudulent acts of persons unknown.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Supreme Court Registrar advertised the California Guest House in Barbados Government Official Gazette Newspapers Notice No. 321 to be Publically Auction Sold 14th July 1967 by Acting Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King at the Registration Office, Law Courts, Coleridge Street, Bridgetown by PUBLIC COMPETITION WITHOUT RESERVE.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The California Guest House</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <b>Public Fraudulent Auction Sale</b> has been recorded in Chief Marshal <b>Frank DeCourcey King Supreme Court Recorded Conveyance No.798 dated 14<sup>th</sup> July 1967</b>, <b>$9.000.00</b> Sale of the property to a <b>Deputy Marshal Kenneth W. Griffith</b> was born on the <b>6<sup>th</sup> of January 1921.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">mm. The Auction Sale Conveyance has been witnessed by a <b>Supreme Court Registration Department “Clerk” named Cuthliest H. Bynoe,</b> who unlawfully functioned as a <b>qualified Solicitor.</b> Mr Bynoe made a <b>“Sworn Oath” that “he was present”</b> and did see <b>Frank DeCourcey King Acting Chief Marshal</b> executed Conveyance No.798 Judgement Sale of the property at Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church” aware that his actions were reckless, fraudulent and based on an “untruth” not caring whether his actions were true or false.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Another Supreme Court Registration Department Clerk - <b>Deputy Supreme Court Registrar Winston DeCourcey Haynes</b> also confirmed the 14<sup>th</sup> day of July 1967 Conveyance No.798 dated Sale by Frank DeCourcey King witnessed by Cuthliest H. Bynoe aware that his actions were reckless, fraudulent and based on an “untruth” not caring whether his actions were true or false.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mr Bynoe was appointed <b>Barbados Inland Revenue Commissioner</b> and <b>Winston DeCourcey Haynes was appointed Deputy Supreme Court Registrar.</b> They were both fully aware that their actions were fraudulent and acted fraudulently, either well knowing that their actions were fraudulent and based on an “untruth”, or they were reckless not caring whether their actions were true or false and that it should be acted upon.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Cuthliest H. Bynoe, Winston DeCourcey Haynes, Frank DeCourcey King and Kenneth Wilford Griffith violated the 1911 Perjury Act</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> in collusion with <b>Acting Supreme Court Registrar Woodbine August Davis QC </b>who resigned in <b>August 1995 as Solicitor General</b>, he died in 2014 and <b>1995 Director of Public Prosecutions Eltridge Garvey Husbands QC</b> died in 2023.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Their diabolical fraudulent property crimes were <b>advertised by the Supreme Court Registrar in Barbados Government Official Gazette Newspapers</b> as genuine Chief Marshal Official Public Auction Judgement Sales, especially <b>Notice No. 482,</b> “All that certain piece or parcel of land (formerly part of the lands of <b>(Friendship Plantation)</b> situate in the parish of Saint Andrew, containing by admeasurement <b>Seven Acres, One Rod, Twenty-Nine Perches (Attached from (Owner Esmond Foster) also known as (Joe Bucket).</b> The Advertisement is dated <b>28<sup>th</sup> day of June 1967</b> to be sold on Public Auction by <b>Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King on Tuesday the 28<sup>th</sup> day of September 1967</b>, at the Registration Office, Law Courts, Coleridge Street, Bridgetown by PUBLIC COMPETITION WITHOUT RESERVE “. The fraudulent <b>Conveyance No. 1236 dated the 24<sup>th</sup> day of March 1968</b> is signed, sealed and recorded in the Supreme Court Registration Department dated <b>27<sup>th</sup> March 1968</b> by Supreme Court <b>Deputy Registrar Eltridge Garvey Husbands</b> and a day later after recording of the Conveyance, dated <b>28<sup>th</sup> March 1968,</b> the Conveyance is signed once again by <b>Winston DeCourcey Haynes as Commissioner of Probates and Acting Chief Marshal Lincoln Llewellyn Durant and Philip E. Serrao as Solicitor Clerk. </b>Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King's name is not mentioned. Acting Chief Marshal <b>Lincoln Llewellyn Durant was also a certified Supreme Court Registration Office Clerk</b> with the above-named <b>Cuthliest H. Bynoe.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been advised and verily believe a <b>GERALD CALLENDER born on the 29<sup>th</sup> of January 1943</b> and entered <b>Government Service in 1964 </b>at <b>Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic.</b> He was appointed Principal on the 14<sup>th</sup> day of September 1992. His name was misused in the Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) Estate scandal.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Approximately nine (9) years before his death <b>Fitzgerald Callender purchased the land Lot No.35 by Indenture No. 694 Volume 769 Page 356 dated 28<sup>th</sup> day of February 1956 from Vendor Mr. Cecil Carlton Mahon</b> of Pegwell, Christ Church in this Island under his nick-name <b>- GERALD CALLENDER</b>, Signed and Sealed by <b>Deputy Registrar A.W. Symonds),</b> the property known as <b>California Guest House was built thereon.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I have been advised and verily believe former Supreme Court Deputy Registrar <b>Mr A. Washington. Symonds during the 1960’s acted as Chief Marshal</b> in the same capacity as Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King. During 1990 Mr A. Washington Symonds was formerly President / Chairman Barbados Association and served also as a Disciplinary Committee Member and was appointed High Court Judge. Advertised In the <b>11<sup>th</sup> November 1995</b> Official Gazette - <b>Justice Washington A. Symonds QC, Justice Eric Bishop QC and Parliamentarian Nevil Nichols QC</b> were appointed Disciplinary Committee Serving Members.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1. Attorney at Law Mr Hamish Greig McClurg in his letter dated 28<sup>th</sup> February 1991, addressed to Supreme Court Registrar Marie Mac Cormack, wrote and stated: “My recollection of the matter of the sale of the property at Pegwell, Christ Church was that it was sold by the Chief Marshal under a Judgment obtained against Gerald Callender during his lifetime, I believe by a client of Messrs. Yearwood & Boyce Solicitors”. “I have no idea who the Judgment – Creditor was as I do not recall being aware of the existence of the Judgment until after the sale”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">kk. By a <b>Conveyance N0.798 dated 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967</b> Chief Marshal Mr. Frank DeCourcey King sold the specifically devised and bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church California Guest-House unto Deputy Supreme Court Marsh Mr. Kenneth Wilford Griffith for <b>$9.000.00 Cash</b> in Barbados Coleridge Street, Registration Building dated <b>14<sup>th</sup> day of July 1967,</b> (declaring) to satisfy a debt of One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty – Five Dollars and Thirty-Six Cents on behalf of Wilkinson & Challenor Limited, the property had a recent Appraised Value of <b>$29.600.00</b>, aware that their actions were fraudulent and based on an untruth, but were reckless not caring whether their actions were true or false.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2. Barbados Supreme Court Registration Department and Achieves Department <b>28<sup>th</sup> April 1994,</b> certifies there is no recorded evidence that Pegwell, Christ Church “California Guest House” was indebted to Wilkinson and Chandler Limited –(Manning’s) or any such Judgment Debt owing to Wilkinson & Challenor Limited. or a Judgement or Confession of a Judgment by Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) or by Gerald Callender (deceased) or Authorized Instructions to Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King to sell the “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church “California Guest House” Property.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">3. That the Chief Marshal fraudulently and or in collusion with the Deputy Chief Marshal sold the “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed California Guest House Property” as the Estate of GERALD CALLENDER deceased, aware that the Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties Clearance Certificate 29 (3) of the Succession Act recorded the property free of debt and creditors.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">4. Barbados Revenue Authority Estate Clearance Certificate Section 28 (3) of the Succession Act</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Certifies the unlawful actions of both Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King and Deputy Chief Marshal Mr. Kenneth Wilford Griffith occurred approximately seventeen (17) months after Estate & Succession Duties Clearance Certificate were issued and Recorded in the Supreme Court Registration Department.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">5. Irrefutably, the said Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King was born 18th day of November 1930 and has never been sworn under oath into the Office of Chief Marshal and Sargent-at-Arms, regardless of the entries made in <b>Barbados 1968 Civil List Records - Page 14, Frank DeC. King was Appointed on 5<sup>th</sup> March 1968 on a $5.400.00 Annual Salary.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">6. Barbados Government Records and those Records of England & Wales Bar Association confirm the said Mr Frank DeCourcey King born 18<sup>th</sup> day of November 1930 had been a “Law Student” attending The Honourable Society Inn of the Middle Temple from the <b>5<sup>th</sup> day of May 1967</b> until his call to the Bar of the <b>Middle Temple 24<sup>th</sup> day of November 1970.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">7<b>. PROVOST MARSHAL ACTS 1904 / 06 Section 50: - 1986 COURT PROCESS </b>makes it abundantly clear If a Chief Marshal agrees with another Marshal or an acquaintance, the action is null and void and the Chief Marshal is liable for any fraudulent or collusive proceedings or corruptive practices.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">8. The Chief Marshal's unauthorized fraudulent action was against a Gerald Callender (deceased) Estate.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">9. In all circumstances of this case, this theoretical sale was by the Chief Marshal for $9.000.00 when the property had a valuation of $29.600.00, advertised in Barbados Newspapers and was known to the Vendor and within the knowledge of the Purchaser.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">10. The Purchaser, Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith fraudulently resold the said California Guest House Property for<b> $21.500.00</b> to Ralph Cameron Prescord by <b>Conveyance N0.932 / 996 / 289 dated 29<sup>th</sup> February 1968, amassing $12.500.00 profit.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">11.</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> There exists unquestionable evidence Pegwell, Christ Church California Guest House was rented by Carrington & Sealy Law Firm on the dates in both Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King $9.000.00 Sale to Deputy Marshal Kenneth W. Griffith Conveyance No.798 and Deputy Marshal Kenneth Griffith’s Conveyance $21.600.00 Sale to Ralph Cameron Prescord before Deputy Marshal Kenneth Griffith’s fraudulent March 1968. Barbados Land Tax Rates Book 1967 certifies the “Specifically Devised and Bequeathed” California Guest House was Rented by <b>Mr Wilson King and his wife Eva King for $60.00 Monthly.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">12. Additionally, six (6) months previous to the Chief Marshal Sale of Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House, a further Cash Sum of $3.596.00 became available from the sale of a plot of land of the (deceased) by the Attorney at Law. Mr Hamish Greig McClurg, known as Allotment N0.2 situate London Road, Britton’s Hill in the parish of Saint Michael.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">13. <b>PROVOST MARSHAL ACTS 1904 / 06 Renamed 1986 COURT PROCESS ACTS </b>Renders any action taken by a Marshal nil & void if he acts as such before been <b>“Sworn under Oath”</b> to the Office of Chief Marshal in the Court of Common Plea or before the Chief Justice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">14. Deputy Marshal Mr Kenneth Wilford Griffith in his letter dated 10<sup>th</sup> December 1996, addressed to the Supreme Court Registrar wrote and stated in paragraph (7): “At the end of the auction sale the house was sold to me for a price which I do not now remember but which to the best of my belief would have been between <b>$8.000.00 and $9.000.00.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">15. The Supreme Court Registrar in receipt of Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith's 10<sup>th</sup> December 1996 letter that certifies violated her duties Provost Marshal Acts 1904 / 06 Section 50, having the said Deputy Chief Marshal Mr Kenneth Wilford Griffith charged and imprisoned, in accordance to those said Rules & Regulations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">16. The Claimant's 1991 conversation with Marshal Kenneth W. Griffith's wife said “she did not know her husband supposedly purchased Pegwell, Christ Church property”.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">17. Barbados Government Records and those of Records of England & Wales Bar Association confirm December 1995 Supreme Court Appointed Registrar, Ms. Shirley V. Bell had been a Law Student attending The Honourable Society Inn of the Middle Temple during the same period Frank DeCourcey King was in attendance and she performed corruptibly.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">18. <b>Supreme Court Registrar Shirley V. Bell</b> was called to the Bar of the <b>Middle Temple in June 1972,</b> approximately eighteen (18) months following 1990’s Supreme Court Registrar Madam Justice Marie Mac Cormack QC call to the same Middle Temple Bar in February 1971, approximately seventy (70) days succeeding Frank DeCourcey King 24<sup>th</sup> November 1970.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">19. Honourable Attorney General Maurice King from the off-set of Claimant 1989 complaints failed to administer justice of numerous complaints made against Frank DeCourcey King, which have continued before succeeding Attorney Generals Sir David Simmons QC, Mia Mottley QC, Dale Marshal QC, Fundel Stuart QC, Adriel Brathwaite QC and again Dale Marshal QC all possessing irrefutable “Material Evidence” confirming Fitzgerald Callender deceased Estate fraud herein by numerous Attorneys at Law and Civil Servants.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">20. Despite the foregoing’s paragraph 18 above herein, on the <b>12<sup>th</sup> day of March 1976</b> Supreme Court Registration Department Granted Limited Grant of Letters of Administration Cum Testamento Annexo de Bonis Non, issued <b>29<sup>th</sup> October 1976,</b> to Mrs Lillian Drakes, limited to part of the <b>Estate of GERALD CALLENDER</b> (deceased), namely Pegwell, Christ Church, specifically devised and bequeathed California Guest House Property, and, another property at Pilgrim Road Christ known as Bungalow New York.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">21. Former Deputy Supreme Court Registrar Attorney at Law Mr Keith Anthony Emmanuel Mayers QC is also a former “Law Student” of The Honourable Society Inn of the Middle Temple, London England, and also 1996 deceased Parliamentary Ombudsman Clifton Browne colluded and concealed evidence of Carrington & Sealy Solicitors wrongdoings in Fitzgerald Callender deceased Estate</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">22. Attorney General Sir David C. Simmons QC</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> was called to the Bar of England & Wales, Lincoln Inn, in <b>November 1969, approximately a year before Frank DeCourcey King's 24<sup>th</sup> of November 1970 Call to the Bar of the Middle Temple and a year after Billie Miller was called to the Bar in November 1968.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">23. Six years following the commencement of this 1976 fraud</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, Mrs Eleanor Anita Callender Stewart, legitimate daughter of 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964 Fitzgerald Callender deceased, granted her relative, Mr Oswald Perkins of Reece Road, in the parish of Britton’s Hill, Saint Michael, a <b>Power of Attorney signed 12<sup>th</sup> April 1982 by USA Notary Public Mr. William Turner.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">24. Attorney at Law Mr Keith A.E. Mayers QC possessing an accurate Certified Copy of Fitzgerald Callender's deceased last Will & Testament to the ESTATE OF FITZGERALD CALLENDER and not to the Estate of GERALD CALLENDER failed to obtain a Grant for his client Oswald Perkins on behalf of the testator legitimate daughter Mrs E.A. Stewart!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">25. Mr. Keith Mayers QC did not obtain a Grant for Oswald Perkins because of Lillian Drakes Limited Grant and Mrs Eleanor Anita Callender Stewart's inherited Asset was then occupied, and rented by Carrington & Sealy Attorneys at Law to Mr Wilson King former renter of Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest-House.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">26. Mr Wilson King, Frank DeCourcey King's brother was irrefutably employed by Carrington & Sealy Attorneys at Law receiving errand payments certified by Christopher Arthur Blackman QC, in August 1995 Estate Account Payments of Gerald Callender (deceased).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">27. Investigations reveal Edwin Callender was none other than the testator's youngest son also named after his father Fitzgerald Callender. He was born on 6th June 1934 and died 10<sup>th</sup> day of March 1992, buried in <b>Calverton Cemetery NY 11933, Section 67 Site 1938, USA.</b> His sister <b>Eleanor Anita Callender Stewart</b> died of a broken heart four (4) years earlier in <b>April 1986.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">28. Fitzgerald Callender double-crossed his sister Eleanor Anita Callender Stewart from the 12<sup>th</sup> of April 1982 Represented by Attorney at Law Mr. Keith Mayers QC, who stated in his 06th January 1994 letter to the Claimant he could not obtain Letters of Administration for Mr. Oswald Perkins because the Estate was riddled with too much complications.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">29. Fitzgerald Callender and his wife Alfretta Couse Callender had two sons and three daughters from their 11th August 1923 marriage and none of them, Joseph Ernest Callender, Eleanor Anita Callender “nee” Stewart, Thelma Callender, Velma Callender “nee” Moses and Fitzgerald Callender are mentioned in Mr McClurg and Edwin Callender falsified supreme Court Probated Will of Gerald Callender Estate; issued as Fitzgerald Callender deceased proper last Will & Testament Estate of GERALD CALLENDER (deceased 18th May 1964.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">30. Despite the foregoing above herein Alfretta Callender, Velma Callender Moses and Fitzgerald Callender Inherited Assets and their names and Succession Duties and Inland Revenue Taxes are all Certified Paid in 1966 Estate & Succession Duties Clearance Certificate Statement of Account “D”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">31. I am advised and verily believed from irrefutable <b>“Material Evidence”</b> the “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House” Upon the recorded date in Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Conveyance N0.798 of 14<sup>th</sup> July 1967 was not sold as specified in that said Conveyance.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">32. Noticeably, the California Guest House Property was rented for<b> $60.00 monthly</b> by Carrington and Sealy Solicitors to Frank DeCourcey King's brother, Mr Wilson King, his wife Eva King and their daughter Beverly King. <b>Beverly King married Peter Drakes, the son of (Administrator) Mrs Lillian Drakes.</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">33. Wilson King and Eva King </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">separated and both moved into two other specifically devised and bequeathed properties of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) situated Corner of London Road and Liverpool Road and the Corner of Manchester Road and Liverpool Road in Britton’s Hill in the parish of Saint Michael.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">34. Following the King’s departure from the California Guest House Property, Carrington and Sealy Solicitors continuously illegally rented the property to others, including <b>Fairy Valley Plantation Manager Mr. Mark Corbin</b> married a Parish Land, Christ Church relative of the Claimant, and they resided in the California Guest House property with their son who grew up and became a <b>Barbados Police Officer, </b>and is now<b> </b>presently an Attorney at Law<b>.</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">35. Mr Wilson King and Eva King's $60.00 Monthly Rental </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">of the “Specifically Devised and Bequeathed”<b> “California Guest House” </b>is recorded on<b> Page No. </b>of Barbados Government Christ Church Rates Book. This is further certification that the property was not sold by Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King to Deputy Marshal Kenneth W. Griffith. It certifies as I revealed the said Frank DeCourcey King Conveyance No.798 dated the 14<sup>th</sup> day of July 1967 is a forgery, also Deputy Marshal Griffith $21.600.00 14<sup>th</sup> March 1968 Sale of the property to Ralph Cameron Prescord. These fraudulent Conveyances were done in or about 1976 and were back-dated to 1966.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">36. <b>Mrs Lillian Drakes Limited Grant of Letters of Administration to the Estate of GERALD CALLENDER (deceased) 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964,</b> is repeated on several Supreme Court Probate Documents stipulates (1964 DECEASED) made his <b>last Will 10<sup>th</sup> day of December 1972.</b> NOTE: Deputy Marshal Griffith's letter is dated 10<sup>th</sup> December 1996.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AND I FURTHER MAKE OATH AND SAY as follows:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">a. On the 14<sup>th</sup> July 1967 / 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967 the said Frank DeCourcey King was not appointed Chief Marshal and, on the dates, he is certified residing in London, England studying law.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">b. The said Chief Marshal F.D. King Conveyance N0.798 of 1967 is a forgery and as a result the fraudulent acts of the person’s name therein or other person’s unknown.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">c. There is no “Documentary Evidence” on “Record” in the Supreme Court Registration Department or Archives of Barbados recording the existence of the said <b>$1.245.36 Debt </b>or Judgement to Wilkinson & Chandler Limited or a Judgement against <b>FITZGERALD CALLENDER (deceased)</b> or GERALD CALLENDER deceased or instructions to the Chief Marshal to sell the said property.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">d. I am further convinced of the fraud as an Application for Leave to issue Writ of Execution must be supported by an Affidavit which must identify the Judgment or Order – is for payment of money, stating the amount originally due under it, and the amount due at the date of application. The Affidavit must give such other information as necessary to satisfy the Court that the Applicant is entitled to proceed to execution on the Judgment or Order in question. Chief Marshal King did not possess any Court Order or permission for the Execution of Pegwell, Christ Church specifically devised & bequeathed California Guesthouse, property of <b>Clinton Nurse and Ernesta Nurse was not notified of the sale.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">e. I am further convinced of the fraud and malpractice recognition Estate & Succession Duties Paid and <b>Provost Marshal Acts 1904 /06 Section 50</b> makes it abundantly clear an execution is wrongful where there is neither authorized nor justified by the Writ of Execution or by the Judgment under which it is issued or where the Writ is issued maliciously and without reasonable cause. Frank King was not only in England studying Law from <b>the 5<sup>th</sup> day of May 1967 to the 24<sup>th</sup> November 1970</b>, he was at no period in his entire life appointed Barbados Chief Marshal and Sargeant-at-Arms.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">f. By a <b>Conveyance dated 29<sup>th</sup> October 1976</b> wherein the said Lillian Drakes is purported to have transferred the property at Pilgrim Road known as <b>Bungalow New York</b> in accordance to the said last will to Edwin Callender, the son of the deceased.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">g. Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Conveyance N0.798 of 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967 was arrived at in complete disregard of Regulations of Law, violating Contentious Probate Proceedings Order 76 R1 / 1 and must be regarded as nil & void inasmuch the said Chief Justice Signature and Deputy Registrar Signature were made in Block Capital Letters upon the Grant of Administration to Executor Norman Legall.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">h. I became further convinced of the fraud and malpractice recognizing <b>08<sup>th</sup> February 1967</b> Grant of Letters of Administration to Norman Legall and 12<sup>th</sup> March 1976 Letters of Administration to Mrs. Lillian Drakes were both made to the <b>Estate of GERALD CALLENDER</b> (deceased) and cannot be used to Represent the <b>Estate of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased).</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">i. The (ILLEGAL) Estate Representatives (Carrington & Sealy Attorneys at Law) refuse to give a copy of Fitzgerald Callender deceased last will to the estate beneficiaries or have the deceased will read to the legitimate beneficiaries since Fitzgerald Callender's 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964 death.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THE CLAIMANT CLAIM</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1. <b>The CLAIMANT, JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE,</b> hereby claims the <b>Authorization of the Will of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) 18<sup>th</sup> day of May 1964,</b> as a beneficiary of the deceased WILL through Succession of the <b>CLAIMANT’S</b> mother, <b>Ernesta Nurse deceased 26<sup>th</sup> May 1991</b>, Succession Act Barbados.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2. <b>The CLAIMANT,</b> Administrator to the Estate of Fitzgerald Callender deceased seeks “Compensation” from the deceased date of death on behalf of Pegwell, Christ Church beneficiaries named in the deceased will, further “Compensation from 1989 to date” covering loss of earnings stress and Costs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">3. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> herein claim the <b>Claimant Inherited Legacy,</b> the specifically devised & bequeathed property known as California Guest-House, situated in Pegwell, in the parish of Christ Church, identified in Fitzgerald Callender deceased will and Barbados Inland Revenue Estate and Succession Duties Clearance Certificate Section 28 (3) of the Succession Act.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">4. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> herein claims “Interest from the testator date of Death” to whatever period an ASSENT of the Property is made in the <b>CLAIMANT</b> Favor, according to the wishes of the testator which are of paramount importance.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">5. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> herein claim the <b>“Rental Monies Collected”</b> on the specifically devised and bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">6. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> herein claims <b>“Rectification of Assets”</b> of the CLAIMANT Specifically Devised & Bequeathed Inherited Legacy in the deceased will.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">7. <b>The CLAIMANT</b> herein claim the <b>“Chattels”</b> that were part and parcel of the Estate identified in the <b>WILL of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased</b>) as the California Guest House.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THE CLAIMANT PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDERS</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">a. A declaration for the recession of the 14<sup>th</sup> July 1967 Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King and Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith Conveyance N0.798 of 1967 contract of sale regarding Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House. That contract was fraudulently executed by persons named therein or other persons.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">b. A declaration that the said Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Conveyance N0.798 of 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967 to Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">c. A declaration that the said Chief Marshal Frank DeCourcey King Conveyance N0.798 31<sup>st</sup> August 1967 and Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith be deemed null and void.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">d. A declaration that Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith Conveyance N0.932 / 996 / 289 14<sup>th</sup> March 1968 Sale of the Specifically Devised and Bequeathed Pegwell, Christ Church, California Guest House to Ralph Cameron Prescord (since deceased 2011) was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">e. A declaration that Deputy Chief Marshal Kenneth Wilford Griffith and Ralph Cameron Prescord Conveyance N0.932 / 996 / 289 14<sup>th</sup> March 1968 be deemed null and void.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">f. A declaration that the said Conveyance N0.932 / 996 / 289 14<sup>th</sup> March 1968 hereof be cancelled and the original destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">g. A declaration that the 19<sup>th</sup> day of August 1995 will of Ralph Cameron Prescord was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud in “Conflict of Interest was made by the CLAIMANT Attorney at Law Mr Justice Colin A. Williams QC – Appeal Court Judge (since deceased July 2007).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">h. A declaration that the 19<sup>th</sup> day of August 1995 will of Ralph Cameron Prescord regarding Pegwell, Christ Church “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed California Guest House Property (renamed Allandale by Ralph Prescord) be deemed null and void.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">i. A declaration that the 13<sup>th</sup> day of August 2012 Supreme Court Probate of Ralph Cameron Prescord will to Allan Scott Prescord be cancelled and the original destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">j. A declaration that the testator Executor Norman Legall 27<sup>th</sup> January 1966 Grant of Letters of Administration to the will of GERALD CALLENDER dated 10<sup>th</sup> September 1962 was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">k. A declaration that the said Norman Legall 27<sup>th</sup> day of January 1966 Grant of Letters of Administration be cancelled and the original destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">l. A declaration that Mrs Lillian Drakes 18<sup>th</sup> September 1975 Power of Attorney was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">m. A declaration that Mrs. Lillian Drakes 18<sup>th</sup> September 1975 Power of Attorney be cancelled and the original destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">n. A declaration that Mrs Lillian Drakes 12<sup>th</sup> March 1976 Limited Grant of Letters of Administration to 18<sup>th</sup> May 1964 deceased GERALD CALLENDER Estate was obtained under fraudulent circumstances and as a result of fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">o. A declaration that the said Mrs Lillian Drakes 12<sup>th</sup> March 1976 Limited Grant of Letters of Administration be cancelled and the original destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">p. A declaration Chief Justice Marston Gibson QC 08<sup>th</sup> November 2017 actions stopping the Supreme Court Marshals in Execution of Madam Justice Margaret Reifer 17<sup>th</sup> June 2017 Court Order was “Malicious”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">q. A declaration that Chief Justice Marston Gibson QC 08th November 2017 actions were unlawful and the Court Marshals will resume “Execution of the said Court Order.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">r. A declaration that the property, the “Specifically Devised & Bequeathed California Guest House”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> situated at Pegwell in the parish of Christ Church be given over to “Legitimate Beneficiaries or their Successors” in accordance to the last will of Fitzgerald Callender (deceased) through Succession Act Barbados.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s.<b> Costs.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">t. Exemplary damages against the Defendants.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">u. Cost for Legal Attorneys and Representatives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">v. Cost for hardship and suffering from 18th May 1964.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">w. Cost for further and other relief.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">x. Cost for loss of earnings.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">y. Cost for loss of use.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">z. Damages against Chief Justices Sir Deny Williams QC, Sir David A.C. Simmons QC and Sir Marston Gibson QC misconduct.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">z1. Punitive Damages.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Dated March 2024</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">______________________</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> CLAIMANT</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I, JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> certify that all facts set out in this Claim Form are true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I, JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> make this Affidavit ) </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In support of my application herein. )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> ) </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">SWORN TO</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> by the Deponent the said )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">At the Registration Office <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Whitepark )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bridgetown <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Saint Michael )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">On the day of March 2024</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Before Me <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> ) <wbr></wbr> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">______________________________<wbr></wbr>________ )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Legal Assistant</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> )</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">______________________________<wbr></wbr>__________)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">BARBADOS</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">CV: 1266 of 1997</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AMENDED AFFIDAVIT AND STATEMENT OF CLAIM</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">BETWEEN CLAIMANT JERRY MERVRIEL NURSE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AND DEFENDANT (1) CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR BLACKMAN QC</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">AND DEFENDANT (2) ATTORNEY GENERAL DALE MARSHAL QC</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Prepared for filing by:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Jerry Mervriel Nurse</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(Acting as his own Attorney)</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Personal Representative to the</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Estate of Fitzgerald 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6e_tUzB8ZeOrUoexLYy7hDbcGPoqu39sT-PrU-N0UXx_cM2Lj_ZHKQhOpJddiPotXTYX6kUrdJdJJR6DtQ4eka8FlsbiTlEW1p1Zi1m0GVC6HvDb9zQUhS4n_8kx_5IA5RkCi4wrCoPOfZ49TLLyiRlwdmzNMs-zycE95fatL5c4ArfBxKnTdMhAarnA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6e_tUzB8ZeOrUoexLYy7hDbcGPoqu39sT-PrU-N0UXx_cM2Lj_ZHKQhOpJddiPotXTYX6kUrdJdJJR6DtQ4eka8FlsbiTlEW1p1Zi1m0GVC6HvDb9zQUhS4n_8kx_5IA5RkCi4wrCoPOfZ49TLLyiRlwdmzNMs-zycE95fatL5c4ArfBxKnTdMhAarnA=w496-h640" width="496" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br />It appears that America's powerful real estate Special Interests can no longer bully FinCEN around. The anti-money laundering agency this week FINALLY to action to require reporting of cash purchases on real estate, after decades of dithering around. Whether the delay was due to improper Congressional influence upon the agency, due to repeated campaign contributions we cannot prove, but the day will come later in 2024 when closing agents, be they lawyers or title companies, will be required to file what is being labeled The Real Estate Report, on all cash residential real estate transactions.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The new regulation, which essentially extends the current area-specific GTOs to the entire United States, will give law enforcement a new and valuable tool to start closing the existing loopholes in real estate money laundering. Expect the Public Comments, by the country's real estate sales industry, as well as some developers, to be brutal, claiming excessive and expensive, as well as delaying consequences. Don't give in to those Special interests, FinCEN, for residential real estate money laundering is one of the principal domestic techniques of laundrymen to integrate dirty money into our legitimate economy, and of all people, I should know.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Compliance officers: Expect money launderers to take large amounts of client funds and make cash purchases now and during the period before the regulations take effect, and govern yourselves accordingly. Any such purchase activity, which appears to have not been regularly occurring for at least the past year, requires enhanced due diligence, to rule out real estate money laundering; Watch for it.</span></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-31593078765419156132024-02-26T07:01:00.000-05:002024-02-26T07:01:00.323-05:00MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND SPINOFFS; NOT SO FAR-FETCHED AS YOU MIGHT THINK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbBBPs4IvANZ0_M23_t12aaBY7_0czGeVf8gymdY3pdSlnM1aE_uidS9INFNirc_6UZfIk_RDPfr2XoUPsoRvfvyLCa9VFXLQMqUGY1EyvNedO6RNQy5058KgmDYyp1lXUxT9OWT70P3nL9UzhzZxd8Xjhyie0fykzzmMXZD5S7gfw3_thz461-HW-gRs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbBBPs4IvANZ0_M23_t12aaBY7_0czGeVf8gymdY3pdSlnM1aE_uidS9INFNirc_6UZfIk_RDPfr2XoUPsoRvfvyLCa9VFXLQMqUGY1EyvNedO6RNQy5058KgmDYyp1lXUxT9OWT70P3nL9UzhzZxd8Xjhyie0fykzzmMXZD5S7gfw3_thz461-HW-gRs" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the world of M & A professionals, there is a school of thought which firmly believes that the inherent risk of money laundering through Mergers, Acquisitions & Spinoffs is low. They trot out these facts: (1) the illiquidity of the acquired assets, (2) the depth of the required financial due diligence, and (3) the complexity of the transactions, as proof positive that it won't happen to in their deals. Do not rely upon those principles to ignore conducting thorough Enhanced Due Diligence for AML purposes.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When I was a career money launderer, I found that some of my clients played the Long Game; that means their perspective was several years in the future. For example, one cannot simply acquire a massive shopping center with dirty money even if it has been artfully and completely cleaned, those clients looked way ahead in their financial planning, regarding how they were going to integrate their criminal proceeds into the legitimate economy. This means making professional connections, corrupting legitimate businessmen, planting the seeds of future transactions, and acting behind the scenes, and under the financial waterline, to insure that future actions will succeed.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Just as legitimate businessmen purchase listed companies as a back-door method of registration, without the requirement for their company to do so, laundrymen acting for criminal elements that have long-term objectives can plan ahead, and successfully mergers and acquisitions, notwithstanding the generally accepted thinking of M & A specialists that it cannot happen it cannot happen in their transactions. Money launderers can have</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><a class="app-aware-link " data-test-app-aware-link="" href="http://m.ba/" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;" target="_self">M.BA</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. credentials, too, in addition to their law degrees, and they know how to use that knowledge in dark ways. Watch for them, please. for they may appear to look just like you.</span></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-6734984792649650932024-02-24T07:21:00.003-05:002024-02-24T07:21:21.654-05:00FATF DECISION REMOVING BARBADOS FROM ITS "GREY LIST" RAISES RISK THAT UK, U.S. AND CANADIAN BANKS WILL UNWITTINGLY LAUNDER THE PROCEEDS OF THE COUNTRY'S RAMPANT ATTORNEY-ORCHESTRATED PROBATE AND REAL ESTATE FRAUD<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig74n7KLKEXyZLyqlKaiwF01-6A-z81-QHhbFFjIJmFEVg8_KaAPQGhrhCwzusE5gvbNGcDfTe3RUQfcMes8oplK5Dkom_hGlABiS8bM4237gx3GZ8hMihVN0kS9vYpl-RsPP7YwDrJlIpEFWa0Zclb22Uiy7sWghigHLS8i5bUX81_K1NG_BwF_Q6vcQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="216" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig74n7KLKEXyZLyqlKaiwF01-6A-z81-QHhbFFjIJmFEVg8_KaAPQGhrhCwzusE5gvbNGcDfTe3RUQfcMes8oplK5Dkom_hGlABiS8bM4237gx3GZ8hMihVN0kS9vYpl-RsPP7YwDrJlIpEFWa0Zclb22Uiy7sWghigHLS8i5bUX81_K1NG_BwF_Q6vcQ" width="222" /></a></div><br /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This week's news, from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), included a decision removing Barbados from its high-risk "Grey List." The impact of that action, regarding increased risk that it will now present Western financial institutions that bank Barbados nationals abroad, especially its professionals and PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons), cannot be understated. Many Barbados attorneys, who have grown in number to the point where there is simply not enough legal work available there to sustain them at the high rate of income which they expect to earn, engage in probate and real estate fraud, to deprive the lesser educated working class of much of their valuable oceanfront land, which they inherit through probate. These attorneys, who act with impunity due to a corrupt government composed of lawyers, then often move their criminal profits abroad, in Western banks.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The FATF act creates a false low-risk posture for funds originating in Barbados, which could be, in truth and in fact, the proceeds of attorney fraud. Source of Funds and Source of wealth inquiries will now be perfunctory, at best, and American, British & Canadian compliance officers will approve accounts, and subsequently-made large deposits, for Barbados attorneys, without questioning them. This is a classic case of the Law of Unintended Consequences raising the level of risk for onshore banks.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-90942883232276776862024-02-23T09:47:00.000-05:002024-02-23T09:47:06.970-05:00RUSSIAN BANKS, INVESTMENT FIRMS AND VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS DESIGNATED BY UNITED STATES<h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 83, 163) !important; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24px !important; letter-spacing: 2px !important; line-height: 1.18 !important; margin: 20px 0px !important; text-transform: uppercase !important;"><br /></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 83, 163) !important; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24px !important; letter-spacing: 2px !important; line-height: 1.18 !important; margin: 20px 0px !important; text-transform: uppercase !important;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4Vl2E9R6C-eQ7gmXwcjyAhNEYLj0O8xgBKtHVCcvd8nr53pxbSKAw4YBpc4H0hTigySmkobXvh7llv0zsqeSIKReKDasFYV-AhkH0Bs1VcKMir27M5cPL0PPXXEHvuWkpWKs3yIeeZSlggA-neWNRIOCCOrOeAgzzeBVK42XA3jNRPlGo9-syMT_u4iA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4Vl2E9R6C-eQ7gmXwcjyAhNEYLj0O8xgBKtHVCcvd8nr53pxbSKAw4YBpc4H0hTigySmkobXvh7llv0zsqeSIKReKDasFYV-AhkH0Bs1VcKMir27M5cPL0PPXXEHvuWkpWKs3yIeeZSlggA-neWNRIOCCOrOeAgzzeBVK42XA3jNRPlGo9-syMT_u4iA" width="320" /></a></div><br />RUSSIA’S FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE </h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 3px 0px 10px;">The following Russia-based banks were designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Avangard Joint Stock Bank</span> is a bank headquartered in Moscow, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Bank RostFinance </span>is a bank headquartered in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Joint Stock Commercial Bank Chelindbank</span> is a bank headquartered in Chelyabinsk, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Joint Stock Commercial Bank International Financial Club </span>is a bank headquartered in Moscow, Russia. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Joint Stock Commercial Bank Modulbank </span>is a bank headquartered in Kostroma, Russia. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Joint Stock Company Databank</span> is a bank headquartered in Izhevsk, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Maritime Joint Stock Bank Joint Stock Company </span>is a bank headquartered in Moscow, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Public Joint Stock Company Bystrobank </span>is a bank headquartered in Izhevsk, Russia.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Public Joint Stock Company SPB Bank </span>is a bank headquartered in Moscow, Russia.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 3px 0px 10px;">The following Russia-based investment firms and venture capital funds were designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Limited Liability Company BSF Capital </span>provides investment banking services, venture investments, fund management, and handles large assets.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Limited Liability Company Investment Consultant Elbrus Capital </span>is an investment firm. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Limited Liability Company Orbita Capital Partners</span> is a fund management company.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Nonprofit Organization Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan </span>provides loans and grants and finances technological and industrial projects. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Guard Kapital</span> invests in Russian information technology companies.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 3px 0px 10px;">The following Russia-based fintech companies were designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393b3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Finansovye Informatsionnye Sistemy </span>develops information systems for the financial sector.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Joint Stock Company Quorum </span>develops financial software.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Limited Liability Company Crypto Pro</span> develops cryptographic software and public key infrastructure solutions. </li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Faktor TS </span>produces software and hardware for cryptographic protection of information.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Sistemy Prakticheskoi Bezopasnosti </span>develops software for secure systems.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Validata </span>designs and produces secure corporation information systems.</li></ul>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274552908642016799.post-87018653431647614062024-02-23T04:30:00.002-05:002024-02-23T11:07:43.365-05:00SENTENCING DATE FOR BVI PORT DIRECTOR, A CO-DEFENDANT OF EX-PREMIER ANDREW FAHIE, POSTPONED FOR UNKNOWN REASONS<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgERSCK-xjcHuMknTUpgPmrwUQ0i7l5N4HBipWzgShHcWiIFzXtAelG1O_ktSoIDb3NY6knFuTolGR8-7JSuf1ftPQcUnIh4ED2zpGjkXaaJvTmk3FJia1TNzKX_1GfSHySrCaCIZl1o4ZHR_QmIvYHTMJjcT-JZQqMXOfTruqZeJZCAQR5HUae5Vy-ldg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="151" data-original-width="334" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgERSCK-xjcHuMknTUpgPmrwUQ0i7l5N4HBipWzgShHcWiIFzXtAelG1O_ktSoIDb3NY6knFuTolGR8-7JSuf1ftPQcUnIh4ED2zpGjkXaaJvTmk3FJia1TNzKX_1GfSHySrCaCIZl1o4ZHR_QmIvYHTMJjcT-JZQqMXOfTruqZeJZCAQR5HUae5Vy-ldg=w400-h181" width="400" /></a></div><br />Here's a mystery for you; the sentencing of OLEANVINE MAYNARD, the former BVI Ports Managing Director in the ANDREW FAHIE money laundering and narcotics trafficking case in SDFL, has been postponed until March 28. Maynard's son KADEEM MAYNARD, whose lack of a legitimate work history and valuable transportation assets points to involvement in the region's lucrative drug trade, received 57 months after he entered a guilty plea.<span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Andrew's conviction on multiple counts has come under attack by his defense attorney, after two jurors, after the verdict as rendered and the jury was dismissed, after being duly polled to confirm each one's agreement with the verdict. A hearing has been scheduled for March 7, in what may be a unique situation with no relevant case law to guide the Court.</span><p></p>Kenneth Rijockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554435575770320149noreply@blogger.com0