CARIBBEAN CBI & CIP JURISDICTIONS, WANT TO GET AMERICA OFF YOUR BACK? SWITCH YOUR APPROVED CURRENCY FOR APPLICATIONS FROM GREENBACKS TO THE EC DOLLAR AND THE CHINESE YUAN, OR CONTINUE TO FACE THE THREAT OF AMERICAN MONEY LAUNDERING INDICTMENTS

I have been getting a lot of pushback this week, responding with scathing comments to my articles discussing money laundering, fraud and corruption in GRENADA, SAINT KITTS & NEVIS, ANTIGUA & BArBUDA, DOMINICA AND SAINT LUCIA. For all those individuals in the investment migration sector, for so long as the Eastern Caribbean CIUs push the Proceeds of crime through New York banks, exposing them to serious violations of the Money Laundering Control Act, I will be reporting on unfolding events, so matter how damaging they be to your sales of economic citizenships. I write for compliance officers, who need to know, with specificity, the who, what, where, when and why of CBI transactions that threaten their banks.

I leave it to historians to eventually determine if Kittitian Ambassador Billy Herbert's decision, back in 1983, to require applicants to the world's first CBI program to remit payment in US Dollars, placed the Eastern Caribbean on a dark path which will not end well, but it is humbly suggested that all CBI jurisdictions immediately switch the type of currency required for payment to the Eastern Caribbean Dollar (XCD), and the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY), so that your clients' funds, and the Proceeds of Crime, steer completely clear of the American financial structure. I say this in all seriousness; find another financial system so that American banks can reduce their risk levels accordingly.

RUSSIANS WIELDING CBI PASSPORTS TO CONCEAL THEIR NATIONALITY POSE A CHALLENGE FOR COMPLIANCE OFFICERS DUE TO POTENTIAL SANCTIONS VIOLATIONS

Visa-free access to the United Kingdom and to the Members of the European Union, by Russian nationals is not new; Russians have employed Maltese IIM (CBI) passports to enter Europe without scrutiny for many years, whether to engage in money laundering or fraud, or to place illicit wealth out of the reach of their own government, Russians have long used CBI passports to access European financial institutions.

However, since the invasion of the Ukraine, and the resulting widespread imposition of Western sanctions, we have seen Russian nationals gravitate towards securing Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports to ease their entry into Europe. Some Russians have even become stakeholders or developers, as well as passport holders such as we have seen in Grenada, but others have chosen to change their nationalities through CBI passports obtained in Dominica, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda.

Compliance officers in jurisdictions that have major sanctions regimes in place are faced with a difficult task; making certain that each Caribbean passport holders, for a CBI-issuing country is not, in truth and in fact, a Russian, and therefore potentially subject to being a threat as a sanctions violation for the bank which chooses to onboard him or her. Given that one can often acquire a CBI passport under an alias, with a bogus date and place of birth, the task of identifying the client becomes extremely difficult, given the usual pressures from New Accounts to approve a possibly affluent new client bringing business to the bank.

I hate to be the one to suggest profiling new customers, but any obviously not native-born West Indian who is presenting a passport from one of the five Eastern Caribbean CBI or CIp states must be subject to strict enhanced due diligence, to rule out Russian or Belarusian nationality. To do anything less means that you are possibly onboarding a sanctions violation in progress, Compliance officers: Be careful out there.

THE USE OF CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS TO FACILITATE TERRORIST FINANCING THROUGH MONEY LAUNDERING

While we have written extensively on the use of Maltese CBI passports by money launderers and bulk cash smugglers to funnel cash to HEZBOLLAH and HAMAS, we have not as yet explained the value of CBI passports, issued by the five Eastern Caribbean states with economic passport programs, as facilitators of what is defined as terrorist financing. Visa-free access to the Members of the EU and to the UK allow the holders entry to financial structures which are artfully employed to convey both the Proceeds of Crime, as well as Donations and funds extorted from expats living the the Diaspora, into fronts in the Middle East, that ultimately end up in the hands of Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organizations.

Such terrorist funding, with bogus or controlled charities, as well as front companies, as the recipients, often through cooperating third countries, such as Turkey/Turkiye, passes out of Europe right under the eyes of bank compliance officers. Middle East laundrymen, acting on behalf of terrorist organizations, armed with CBI passports, enter the European financial structure with impunity, properly clothed as international trade businessmen, or charitable funders, and exploit the system. CBI passports issued by Grenada, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Dominica and Antigua & Barbuda are all tools of laundrymen working for terrorists.

While nobody in the EU is going to come right out and say it, countering money laundering is one of the major reasons Europe is fed up with being a facilitator of terrorist financing through money laundering. It may officially chose the grounds of failure of CBI passport to have an actual relationship with the jurisdiction where they obtain their passports, but underneath it all, money laundering is one of the principal reasons to block visa-free access to Europe.

CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP HAS A FRONT COMPANY IN DUBAI SELLING ILLEGALLY-DISCOUNTED SAINT LUCIA PASSPORTS -IT IS A BOGUS LAW FIRM WITH NO ATTORNEYS IDENTIFIED, AND NO NAMES ANYWHERE, TO DECEIVE THE INVESTING PUBLIC

In most civilized countries, it is a crime to pose as an attorney, and offer legal services to the public. PRIME LEGAL CONSULTANTS, ostensibly located somewhere in Dubai, UAE, is offering to sell Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports of Saint Lucia, at an illegal discount, on terms banned by a Memorandum of Agreement, signed by Saint Lucia in 2024, through a bogus "installment loan" scam, where the future payments will neither be expected nor made. Look at the quote furnished to a prospective client, in 2025. Prime is a known front for CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, a Chinese-owned company implicated in thousands of illegal transactions, involving fraud, money laundering and corruption, both in Saint Lucia, as well as in nearby Saint Kitts & Nevis.

There are no names of what are said to be "legal professionals" on the website, because there are NO lawyers or attorneys at Prime. It is a front for one of the investment migration industry's most brazen fraudsters, one which has diverted billions of US Dollars into accounts in the People's Republic of China, while moving its base of operations to the freewheeling business environment of the United Arab Emirates, where its officers are immune from extradition for their offenses.

By the way, the next time a passport sales consultancy extols the ability of its "legal professionals" and "legal experts," ask they why they are not using the terms Attorney or Lawyer. It might be because the individuals selling you a second passport are not duly admitted to the practice of law in the jurisdictions where they want you to purchase that citizenship and passport. It may also be that they are not attorneys at all, but commission salesmen, dedicated to persuading you to buy their offerings, without full disclosure, or any disclosure. Look up the term Charlatan in your online dictionary, and govern yourself accordingly

UNDER ITS CUBAN EDUCATED, AND CHINESE BACKED LEADER, PRIME MINISTER TERRANCE DREW, SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING THE NEW CUBA

He is often compared to the authoritarian ruler of Venezuela,  NICOLAS MADURO, and he is hell-bent on turning the corrupt government of Saint Kitts and Nevis into a second Cuba. He is SKN Prime Minister TERRANCE MICHAEL DREW, under whose reign freedom of speech and civil rights are in grave danger in that tropical paradise, based upon the Cuban and Venezuelan political model.

Drew was raised in a challenging environment, and his relationship and admiration for the anti-semitic teachings of Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, color his actions. His professional and educational training in Cuba, and his deep personal attachment to the Cuban regime, as well as his support for the HAMAS movement should tell the US State Department all they need to know about Prime Minister Drew's political beliefs, which are essentially Marxist, and contrary to the principles of democracy.

Drew's political standing is in a difficult place at the moment, as his deep involvement in the Money Laundering fraudulent Chinese jail infrastructure project, has been exposed by MSR MEDIA, and is reportedly under investigation in the United States.

This week, he fired from a prestigious position at the hospital, one of his most loyal supporter and friend, Jefroy Morrishaw, who has declined to make false and untrue statements on behalf of Drew on many issues, including Drew's false extortion allegation, where he claimed he had been a victim of , which was a complete fabrication, to deflect from Terrance Drew's role in the CBI fraud.

Curiously, Drew's wife, DIANI PRINCE-DREW,  is the daughter of a sitting minister in the current Saint Vincent government. At the same time, Drew has approved, the Chinese-backed  airport infrastructure project, led by an individual who is a member of the Opposition in Saint Vincent, BENJAMIN EXETER. Is this Drew's wife acting as a Trojan Horse, backed by Drew's Chinese partner, to secure funding for the SVN opposition, which advocates that it will create a CBI program, when it comes into power? Saint Vincent PM, RALPH GONSALVES, who opposes CBI for  Saint Vincent, should watch his back in this matter. Details of the Saint Kitts airport CBI project were revealed by another Kittitian patriot, IAN "PATCHES" LIBURD.  

While the previous US administration frankly ignored the National Security threats posed by the events in Saint Kitts, and Nevis, the new Trump administration has already indicated that it has regarded Cuba, the Chinese threat, and Venezuela, as priorities to be dealt with through a position of strength. PM Drew will soon find himself, and his island nation, in a very difficult position.
  

WILL GRENADA BE FORCED TO CLOSE ITS BELEAGUERED CBI PROGRAM, TO PROTECT ITS USA E-2 VISA PRIVILEGES?

If you read my recent story about the plan to file a RICO lawsuit this summer, against Grenada CBI consultants and sub-agents participating in the illegal bogus loan and discounted citizenship schemes, you understand that such litigation will have far-reaching impact throughout the region. It will also radiate to the United States, where the Secretary of State has mader no secret about his opposition to China's involvement, through HENG SHENG GROUP, in Grenadian affairs, especially its increasing involvement at the highest levels of national government, meaning the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

So, the question becomes, will Grenada be required to cancel its CBI program to keep its E-2 Investor Visa program of the United States? while much of the Eastern Caribbean hastened to explain, after the meeting between EC PMs and Secretary Rubio, that there was zero pressure placed upon them regarding CBI & CIP, I believe this was merely spin control. The PMs are in the hot seat with the US, make no doubt about it. Whether IMA Grenada will be forced to be dismantled, and the program cancelled, remains an open question for 2025.

NEWS BLACKOUT CONTINUES FROM GRENADA IMA ON HENG SHENG SUSPENSION & INVESTIGATION

 

There have been no public announcements yet from Investment Migration Grenada, regarding the status of Application Acceptance Suspensions, Processing Suspensions, and the release of Investigation Findings, regarding HENG SHENG GROUP. No information has been shared with the investing public regarding the bogus owner financing scheme, and illegal discounting alleged to have occurred, on a massive and organized scale, by Heng Sheng, whose applications have not been accepted since the March 18,2025 announcement appearing above.  We have examined all the government press releases to date (as of May 15, 2025), and there is no information appearing on the website.

 

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THE EU VISA SUSPENSION MECHANISM: EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO CONTINUED VISA-FREE ADMISSION TO THE SCHENGEN ZONE?

If you haven't yet read the March 21, 2025 REPORT ON THE PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL AMENDING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1806 AS REGARDS THE REVISION OF THE SUSPENSION REGULATION, you may not be aware of the term VISA SUSPENSION MECHANISM. This is the method through which, after due analysis, visa-free travel from a third country comes to an immediate, and abrupt, halt.

The multiple and complex grounds that the Regulation, as the proposed amendments indicate, are fatal to the visa-free privileges, provides for are extremely complex, and we cannot hope to simply summarize them in a short article on the subject, but we will endeavour, in future articles ro survey them, and their probably impact on the investment migration industry, which relies upon visa-free travel into the EU as the major selling point for CBI & CIP products, from all the nations offering such citizenships, if the truth be known.

It is humbly suggested that anyone in that field should review the Report, and if necessary, seek competent legal advice in the proper interpretation of the proposed provisions of the amendments to the regulations. Yes, it's that important, whether you work in a CBI program, or are involved in the commercial or private sector of the industry, as I do not use the term existential lightly.

HAMAS TRAINING CAMPS EXIST IN TURKEY, WHOSE SPECIAL PASSPORT HOLDERS HAVE DIRECT SCHENGEN ACCESS; SHOULD IT BE DESIGNATED A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM AND THROWN OUT OF NATO? THREATS TO EU REQUIRE CORRECTIVE MEASURES

The emergence of allegations that Turkey has allowed HAMAS military training camps to exist in Turkey, when coupled with the country's close association with that designated terrorist organization, and repeated instances of terrorist financing by Turkey, now require protective measures by EU Member states to reduce the threat of Hamas agents within their borders.

There are several classes of Turkish passports, especially what are classified as "Special Passports," which are widely available, that enjoy visa-free access to the Schengen Zone, and fears that trained Hamas agents, especially money launderers and explosives experts, have already entered the EU by exploiting that visa loophole, now require special protective measures at EU borders and frontiers.

Additionally, compliance officers handling Accounting Opening duties at financial institutions within the European Union are strongly cautioned to be alert for new bank customers presenting what are designated Turkish Special, Service and Diplomatic passports, all of which have visa-free entry privileges, to decline any potential clients with birthplace locations in the Middle East outside Turkey, unless Enhanced Due Diligence confirms them as low risk for terrorist affiliations.

Whether Turkey should be designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, as once contemplated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and removed from membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are issues we intend to cover in future articles, as well as the repeated inaction, on the part of the United States, to rein in its supposed ally, who is expanding its relationship with Hamas, with serious consequences for the ability of the West suppress its terrorist operations in the European Union.

TURKEY CANCELS SAINT KITTS & NEVIS VISA-FREE ENTRY, IMPOSES VISA RESTRICTIONS OF ONE TYPE OR ANOTHER ON ALL EASTERN CARIBBEAN CBI STATES, FOLLOWING EUROPEAN UNION LEGISLATION

The Government of Turkey (a/k/a Turkiye) has revoked its Mutual Visa Waiver Agreement with Saint Kitts & Nevis, and has also taken action against other Caribbean jurisdictions, which may indicate that it is the beginning of a trend. It also ruled that citizens of Dominica must hereafter obtain a visa to enter the country. There are other restrictions on Grenada, Saint Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda; they are also no longer allowed visa-free entry; they can qualify for an e-visa, which requires application and approval, after a records check, and any other screening procedure that Turkey wishes to institute. Whether e-visas for CBI/CIP passport holders will be declined is a question being asked, but no answers have been forthcoming.

Whether the recent EU action, and the ECJ ruling which essentially closed down Malta's IIM (CBI) Program, for lack of a sufficient connection between the applicants and the country whose citizenship they were acquiring, cause additional nations to revoke the visa-free arrangements that the five eastern Caribbean CBI & CIP states enjoy, is a question the lips of everyone in the Investment Migration industry, whose members receive a substantial, and in some cases clearly excessive, commission for brokering the sales of Caribbean citizenships for Saint Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Grenada. Is the honeymoon of CBI sales about to end for the five EC states.

CHINA'S ROLE BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE USE OF CBI TO EXPAND SAINT KITTS' AIRPORT IS CAUSE FOR CONCERN

Bizjets line the runway in Saint Kitts; 24/12/2024

If you have been following the marketing, to Nigerian investors,of the expansion of Saint Kitts' ROBERT BRADSHAW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (f/k/a Golden Rock), under the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program, you should know that our investigation has revealed that the project is, in truth and in fact, being quietly orchestrated by China, which means that there may be a hidden agenda for the airport upgrade, now being supervised by CARIBBEAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORP (CIDC). 

When we first noticed that the project was being actively hawked inside Nigeria, our initial concerns were that it could result in the acquisition of SKN CBI passports by Nigerian fraudsters and white collar criminals, and other unsuitable candidates for citizenship, acquiring passports with visa-free access to Europe, as well as funding from illicit sources not thoroughly vetted by Saint Kitts' notoriously inept due diligence program, which has verged on intentionally approving bad actors.

Now however, given our information regarding the fact that China is pulling the strings on the airport upgrade project, we have substantial concerns that the results may not be the publicly stated goal of supporting increased tourism, but in creating a facility with a potential military application for China. 

It is not a coincidence that BENJAMIN EXETER, the CCO of CIDC, is an important Opposition member in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, making him an adversary of that country's Prime Minister RALPH GONSALVES, who has long opposed the corrupting influence of CBI in the region, and who originally broke the news that China is behind the Saint Kitts airport upgrade project. It appears that China is attempting to portray Exeter and CIDC as a major CBI  influence in the Caribbean. Additionally, there are reliable reports that the SVG Opposition efforts to introduce CBI in that country are fully funded by China.

If you know your Caribbean history, remember that it was the ongoing rapid construction, by a large Cuban contractor contingent, of the runway in Grenada, which had come under a radical political regime, that was one of the principal factors in the international invasion in 1983. The potential future use of the Grenada airport as an airbase for Soviet heavy bombers, was correctly seen as a National Security threat by the United States. Whether history is now repeating itself, with China the emerging threat, potentially having access for its military aviation assets in the Eastern Caribbean, is an issue which cannot be ignored.

We will be closely monitoring this project, and watching for the United States' response to its progress. as part of our coverage of China's efforts to expand its political, economic, social and martial influence in the states of the Eastern Caribbean.

A NEW RICO CASE AGAINST GRENADA CBI DEFENDANTS AND ITS PRINCIPAL CHINESE SALES CONSULTANCY TO BE FILED THIS SUMMER

MSR MEDIA, whose American RICO lawsuit filed last year, charging fraud and money laundering in SAINT KITTS & NEVIS and SAINT LUCIA exposed a dark underworld of crime and corruption in the Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) industry, announced yesterday in a Press Release that it intends to file, this Summer, a new RICO action, against additional CBI defendants, and yet another Chinese-owned sales consultancy.

Given that the §1782 Discovery Application subpoena served on BANK OF AMERICA, resulted back in January 2025 in the production of what is reportedly incriminating evidence against  GRENADA parties, and HENG SHENG GROUP, it is likely that these are two of the parties MSR intends to being RICO charges against, as well as others not yet named. It is believed that a number of consultancies in the Middle East will be among the defendants.

 GRENADA suspended Heng Sheng, and opened an investigation, after information regarding the fact that a major HS sales and marketing campaign of Grenada Economic Citizenships had occurred, and was an ongoing problem. After more than two months after the announcement, there is no additional word from the Government of Grenada. about the results of the investigation.

WILL THE HENG SHENG CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT SCANDAL COST GRENADA ITS PRIZED E-2 VISA STATUS?

The unfolding scandal surrounding Grenada's principal CBI vendor, CHONGQING HENG SHENG CONSULTING SERVICES CO.,LTD., which is guilty of conducting widespread sales of illegally-discounted citizenships, employing a bogus financing scheme, to disguise its scheme, may have far-reaching consequences for Grenada, which is the only Eastern Caribbean CBI or CIP state among the five preently offering economic citizenships in the region.

The magnitude of the Heng Sheng scandal, which is considered by observers in the financial world to be as serious, if not even more egregious, than a similar case in Saint Kitts & Nevis, and in Saint Lucia, involving CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, also owned and controlled by China. The difference is that the United States has an effective tool, the Grenada citizenship eligibility for the E-2 Investor Visa, with which to express its disapproval of the HS scheme, which was facilitated by INA Grenada, in approving the applications, and allowing the passports to be issued.

The hard-nosed, even adversarial, foreign policy of the new Trump Administration State department may result in the cancellation of E-2 privileges for all Grenadian citizens, not just the CBI passport holders. This act would seriously impact the value of Grenada CBI to investors, in our humble opinion, and level the playing field in the investment migration industry. Whether it occurs most likely will depend upon the level of discipline and sanctions that IMA doles out to HS, if any; We will be watching.