LABOUR GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA PLANS TO IMMUNIZE ONE OF ITS OWN, WHO FACES EXTENSIVE LITIGATION IN THE UNITED STATES FOR NEGLIGENCE IN MEDICAL TOURISM

Doctor Joseph "Joey" John

A scheme, by the sitting Labour Party of ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, to place one of its own, local physician DOCTOR JOSEPH JOHN, in office after the upcoming national elections, as GOVERNOR-GENERAL, has become public knowledge. Johns, who is engaged in dodgy Medical Tourism in Antigua, is reportedly the subject of extensive civil litigation in courts in the United States, alleging professional negligence. His experimental cancer treatment program has come under attack by the medical establishment, and resulted in claims by his patients in American courts.

The obvious aim of the Labour plan is to immunize Doctor John, who as Governor-General will become immune under Antiguan law for any criminal charges, which are believed to be pending and threatened against him at this time. Should the Labour Party, which has been under attack for corruption and money laundering, Doctor John would most likely face criminal prosecution; he is a known Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party member. His controversial Antiguan knighthood, in the face of fraud allegations, has also drawn critics.

Doctor John was appointed AMBASSADOR AT LARGE and Advisor to Antigua Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE a decade ago, as part of Browne's policy of doling out diplomatic passports to members of the Labour Party who do not discharge actual responsibilities as working diplomats, but who then can engage in international travel without have their baggage and documents examined by customs officers. Exactly what governmental advisor benefits a private physician can deliver to the Government of Antigua has always been a question, as have a large number of diplomatic passports given to private businessmen in Antigua, and the facilitation of corruption has long been suspected as the true reason for this widespread practice.

REPORTS CLAIM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAS ANNOUNCED PLANS TO RESCIND THE DIPLOMATIC VISAS, AND ALL TRAVEL PRIVILEGES, FOR 26 SENIOR CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENT LEADERS.

Antigua PM GASTON BROWNE

This information, which came after details appeared recently claiming that Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE has had all his visa privileges to enter the United States revoked, was seen multiple times on social media. The grounds were said to be that the individuals named threatened the security and prosperity of the United States.

In what must be considered an extension of the current American visa restriction policy, a denial of the ability of those named to "own or control critical assets" was mentioned. Whether this means that sanctions will be imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), or some other American regulatory or law enforcement action, we cannot say.

The report included specific information regarding individuals who hold office in Antigua; it stated that a half dozen Antiguan officials, as well as a senior local businessman are included on the list of names of those whose visas will be terminated. We shall make every effort to verify this information, but wish to point out that the United States, as a matter of policy does not confirm single cases where it has revoked visa privileges of foreign leaders.

NEW CONTROVERSY IN MALTA OVER A BAN ON FOREIGN LETTERS IN NAMES REMINDS US OF THE TRICKS MONEY LAUNDERERS USE TO HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT

Media in the Republic of Malta has recently been covering the issue surrounding the government's intention to ban the public registration of foreign characters in names. BAN ON FOREIGN LETTERS IN NAMES TRIGGERS LEGAL THREAT https://lnkd.in/eSvmcst5 We are reminded of our prior coverage of the problem, in connection with Citizenship by Investment (CIP/CBI) passports: MOST INDIVIDUALS OBTAINING CBI PASSPORTS COME FROM COUNTRIES USING NON-LATIN ALPHABETS REQUIRING FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE IDENTITY CONFIRMATION. https://lnkd.in/eiqJF23s

We note for compliance officers at international banks that money launderers often choose to substitute a single non-latin letter, accent, or other departure from their original legal name, to confuse and confound database searches, resulting in a negative result for a high-risk individual . They also make such small alterations in corporate names, to confuse compliance officers into thinking that they are dealing with a well-known, legitimate entity, when the opposite is true.

Always pay attention to details when examining an individual or corporate name; does it include diacritical marks not normal to Western European script or typeface? are there one or more letters that are different than the standard Latin alphabet? Laundryman have been known to substitute a single Cyrillic ( Russian) letter, to foil name searching.

Read both of the above articles for important information, please.

CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT (CIP/CBI) PROGRAMS MUST HAVE REMOTE ADMINISTRATION TO ESCAPE THEIR LEGACY OF CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING

The severe visa restrictions that the United States has placed upon ANTIGUA and BARBUDA and the COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA, created due to the unacceptable situation surrounding those states' extensive Economic Citizenship/Citizenship by Investment programs, will not be rescinded so long as the rampant corruption, fraud and money laundering that has infected them since they were organized continues to plague their operation. Just today, we learned that government agencies are being offered bribes by prospective clients, to disregard the information in due diligence reports, and issue the passports to unqualified and high-risk applicants.

Antiguans who are asking when, or even if, the American visa restrictions will be lifted need to understand, as do all the other Eastern Caribbean CBI states, SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, DOMINICA and GRENADA, that the US, UK and the EU aren't going to allow the current programs, which they deem unacceptable, for a wide variety of valid reasons, which we have painfully documented, to continue to enjoy their previous privileges for much longer. New European screening programs ( ESTA, ETA, etc.) will serve to block CBI passport holders, whether visa-free travel legally exists or not.

The solution is top-to-bottom reform, and to have the programs administered remotely, with oversight, rather than allow them to continue to wallow in their current unsupervised corruption, which has spawned global financial crime by bad actors with CBI passports. It is the only way to truly conduct effective, and corruption-free due diligence, screening and AML/CFT at the banking best practices level. And we mean administration in a Western country, far from the culture of corruption that has been a feature of life in the English-speaking Caribbean since independence, not moving the programs to an unregulated venue like Dubai, where high-risk applicants can still worm their way into being accepted, as we have seen of late with SAO TOME's remotely-administered program; US or UK-based locations, where strict supervision by regulators can actually occur. Sao Tome''s remote administration is accepting Russian and Iranian applicants, two high-risk, sanctioned jurisdictions; That should not be happening. Remote must be in a controlled environment.

Therefore, without an effective, properly administered CBI program, remotely operated and completely controlled from abroad, and not susceptible to local pressures and opportunities for bribes and kickbacks by greedy governbment officials and staff members, Caribbean CBI faces an existential moment, and the current United States government, no stranger to abrupt and lethal action, will steamroller over the jurisdictions that don't reform through professional. remote operation. Let's see whose Caribbean programs are still acquiring clients in 2028, if they fail to make this move to remote.

ANTIGUA MUST REFORM ITS CORRUPT CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT (CIP) PROGRAM THIS YEAR BEFORE THE UNITED STATES WILL REMOVE THE CURRENT VISA RESTRICTIONS PLACED UPON ITS CITIZENS

Although the current government of ANTIGUA and BARBUDA has gone to great lengths to assure its people that the major restrictions imposed by the United States on visa entry are only temporary, in truth and in fact they are the direct result of the country's mismanaged and corrupt Citizenship by Investment (CIP) program, and those restrictions will not be lifted until and unless a major reform is instituted. The United States, )and for that matter, the European Union) has zero confidence in the current Labour government in place in Antigua to ever clean up CIP; only with a new government in place is there any reasonable expectation of a successful negotiation, resulting in a lifting of the current status, will occur. The money laundering and fraud which has been characteristic of the present program must become a thing of the past.

Furthermore, given the level of corruption in the agency operating the CIP, mismanagement, lack of control over agents abroad, and utter failure of due diligence, there will need to be administration of at least part of the tasks involved by external, independent operators, to insure that the bribes and kickbacks which have fatally infected Antigua's CIP no longer plague the program.

If Antiguans sincerely want to regain the ability to freely travel to the United States, free from the financial burdens of obtaining an expensive bond, and without the severe conditions that America has now imposed, then it is up to them to use the power of their votes to usher in a new government, not tainted by corruption as is the current one, so that they can move forward to favorably resolve their present visa situation.

HERE IS THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS PARDONED SINCE JANUARY 20, 2025

If you are conducting a due diligence inquiry on someone whose white collar conviction appears to have been erased by the present administration, you can find the record here, on the DOJ Pardon website list, for 1/20/25-present.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present

LITIGATION BY UNHAPPY PILATUS BANK CUSTOMER REMINDS US THAT NEITHER MALTA NOR THE UNITED STATES OBTAINED JUSTICE FOR A MONEY LAUNDERING PRIVATE BANK OWNED BY IRANIANS

Negarin and Ali Sayed

We see that a Kiwi billionaire, unhappy that his deposits in Malta's now-shuttered PILATUS BANK have been frozen for the past eight years, with no relief in sight, has brought a suit to recover his funds. This brings back painful memories of an Iranian-owned Maltese private bank, whose owner and CEO used their Caribbean Citizenship by Investment passports ( from Saint Kitts and Dominica) to facilitate a major EU money laundering enterprise, with a convenient low-key UK branch, and that neither Malta's corrupt leadership, nor the US Department of Justice, delivered justice for the victims.

Moreover, the American criminal case against the bank's owner, ALISADR HASHEMINEJAD, was dismissed under circumstances that raised suspicions that he struck a deal with US law enforcement or its intelligence agencies to allow him to walk free, and continue to live in the United States, with his extended family? This notwithstanding that his father, Mohammad Sadr Hasheminejad, considered by many to be the Iranian Bill Gates, is a major supporter of the regime. Alisadr's sister, NEGARIN NEJAD who is reportedly a US citizen, also acquired a Saint Kitts Passport, pictured here. He attended her wedding last year. She was an unindicted co-conspirator in the SDNY criminal case against her brother. What really happened here? I am reminded of the other major Iranian case in Federal Court in New York, against REZA ZARRAB a/k/a RISA SARRAF, which reportedly ended with a confidential deal with the Central Intelligence Agency, and Zarrab now living very well in South Florida.

What about all those Pilatus Bank customers, whose deposits have been frozen since 2018? In this case, justice delayed is most certainly denied.

FOR FURTHER READING:

ENTIRE FAMILY OF INDICTED IRANIAN PILATUS BANK OWNER HAS ST KITTS CBI PASSPORTS, LIVE IN USA

https://rijock.blogspot.com/2020/02/entire-family-of-indicted-iranian.html

WILL THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF MALTA'S PILATUS BANK NOW BE CHARGED ?

https://rijock.blogspot.com/2020/03/will-officers-and-directors-of-maltas.html

COMPLIANCE OFFICERS PLEASE NOTE: AI INQUIRIES USED TO CREATE INFORMATION THAT YOU SEND TO YOUR LEGAL COUNSEL ARE NOT PROTECTED BY ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

If you are not reading the reports on recent case law, regarding the use of artificial intelligence to create material you send to your attorney to aid in your defense, or for any other purpose connected with your work, please note that most of the decisions have held that your AI research is NOT protected by attorney-client privilege, and it is not considered part of the Work Product privilege either. To make matters worse, the courts have generally ruled that there is "No Expectation of Privacy" when using AI, so that defense will not work for you either.

Therefore, when preparing material for your counsel, in connection with any matter which constitutes preparation for litigation, think twice before accessing that chatbot, before you send your material to your lawyer; just saying. Let your lawyer or law firm do the damn AI search, and do not try to create a privilege by stating in your transmittal to your counsel that you conducted the research under their supervision and direction, for I have no confidence that this ploy will succeed either. Therefore, stay away for AI, in my humble opinion, when it comes to creating material which has any chance of being transmitted to your lawyer, for any purpose, lest you find out, to your dismay, that your private litigation strategy can be accessed and read by opposing counsel. be very careful here; your love affair with AI may come back to bite you in the back.

WANTED IN THE U.S. FOR MONEY LAUNDERING, WILL THIS NIGERIAN LAWYER AND AIRLINE OWNER ENGAGE IN CORRUPT ACTIVITY AGAIN IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA?

Antigua's Prime Minister and the Fugitive from Justice

Meet ALLEN ONYEMA, the Nigerian attorney who owns local airline AIR PEACE and 70% of LIAT AIR; he is a wanted fugitive in the United States, in a $20m Federal case, charging money laundering, bank fraud, obstruction of Justice, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. UNITED STATES vs. ALLEN ONYEMA, Case No.: 1:19-cr-00464 (ND GA).

Onyema, who is also a close friend of Antigua's Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE (Antigua owns the balance of Liat Air stock), is alleged to have delivered, via Air Peace flights to Antigua, a significant amount of illegal campaign contributions to Browne's ruling Antigua & Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP), in advance of the last national election, held in that country on 2023, and these illicit funds were reportedly used to pay voters to vote only for Labour candidates, to pay cash bribes to a number of potential candidates for office, so that they would change their party affiliation, and to cover massive political campaign expenses, which included distributing handouts to people so that they would refrain from voting. All these illegal acts, which constitute voter fraud, we conducted by Browne's Labour Party officers.The fear this week, among election observers in the Caribbean, is that Onyema has already sent bundles of cash to Labour, having arrived in Antigua on Air Peace airliners during their infrequent flights from Nigeria, and that the Labour Party will seek to spoil the will of the people of Antigua through voter fraud.

MEHUL CHOKSI, ANTIGUA'S POSTER BOY FOR CIP CORRUPTION, MOVES EVER CLOSER TO JUSTICE WITH APPEALS COURT NOW ADVISING BELGIAN GOVERNMENT TO EXTRADITE THE $2bn FRAUDSTER TO INDIA

Resignation 1 by ALEX CEPPI www.alexcepppi.com

Time is running out for MEHUL CHOKSI, the Indian diamond dealer who defrauded PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK out of the equivalent of more than two billion dollars, then was protected by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, who sold him a Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport while under criminal investigation, and thereafter allowed him to artfully delay extradition for several years in the country's corrupt court system, through judicial rulings in his favor alleged to have been secured through the payment of significant bribes.

The case exposed the corrupt role of Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE's Labour government in directly facilitating the denial of justice, which has not gone unnoticed amongst potential foreign investors, who require that the Rule of Law be adhered to in jurisdictions where they consider investing. The Choksi scandal is but the latest example of how the current Labour government has used frequent changes in assigned judges, repeated appearance of new counsel, and the acceptance of frivolous and dilatory appeals to delay justice in extradition cases for as long as a decade, under circumstances that suggest corruption, malfeasance, and undue executive influence over assigned judiciary. The Court of Appeal in Belgium, which denied Choksi's legal efforts against extradition to his native India, to face the music, notified the Interior Ministry of Belgium on April 3, 2026 to process him for extradition, on six charges that include criminal conspiracy, forgery and embezzlement. There are now no legal impediments to his extradition, which is currently projected to occur sometime in May.

WILL THE UNITED STATES RAISE THE TRAVEL ADVISORY ON SAINT LUCIA TO A LEVEL WHICH WILL DISCOURAGE AMERICANS FROM VISITING THE COUNTRY?

The serious concerns that the US Department of State has reportedly had regarding the Eastern Caribbean country of SAINT LUCIA, after a national election seriously flawed by widespread vote buying, and alleged vote tabulation manipulation by government officials, on top of other major reasons, the result of which may manifest itself in a pronounced elevation of the official US DOS Travel Advisory to a level that would, in essence, soundly discourage Americans from leisure travel there. A rumor to that effect has been received.

We have seen punitive measures implemented of late, by the State Department, against other Eastern Caribbean states whose actions the United States Government has found to be contrary to its national security interests, and Saint Lucia's rogue Citizenship by Investment (CIP) has sold passports to a reported tens of thousands of Chinese national, all without being previously qualified through sufficient due diligence investigation in advance, which the U.S. considers a clear and present danger to its security. Additionally, the skyrocketing number of homicides taking place annually in Saint Lucia, attributed to gang violence, the presence of firearms shipped in the U.S, narcotics shipments transiting the island, and cooperation between elected politicians and gangs, all concern American officials, and could easily serve as the excuse for raising the Threat Advisor to Three, which is a recommendation not to travel there. Such an act would have a serious effect, not only on tourist arrivals, hotel stays and extended visits, but it could have the knock-on effect of causing scheduled travels by American flag airlines there, if business drops off significantly in rapid order. Given what has become of late the rather brusque way that the US has conducted international relations with the Eastern Caribbean states that issue economic citizenships & passports, Saint Lucians may indeed be in for a rough ride, and a shock to their tourism-centric economy. While we have no actual confirmation that this is in the cards, the risk that this will occur must be recognized.

ANTIGUA AT THE CROSSROADS

With a snap election having been called by its Prime Minister for the end of the month, Antigua and Barbuda has come to a fork in the road of future economic and political development: it can elect Opposition (UPP) candidates, who have promised to reverse the dependence on China, and strengthen ties with the United States, would result in increased tourism, agriculture and infrastructure construction, meaning more jobs, or it can elect to remain with the existing Labour Party, which means status quo on low standards of living for much of the population, and increased isolation from the US, due to CIP issues, and because of continued alignment with the Peoples' Republic of China.

Antiguans are painfully aware that their PM called the election because he fears serious political and legal clouds on the horizon for their country, due to inevitable additional American measures to rein in the CIP dangers, to uncover corruption problems that impact the United States financial system, as well as issues involving Browne personally. There are external business entities, American as well as expat Antiguan, that have hesitated to bring investment to the two island nation, due to concerns over corruption and threats of governmental interference, but who have promised to bring jobs and new commerce, provided they are comforted by the installation of a new, clean government, without Labour's extensive baggage. The United States also seeks a reformed Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport sales program, without the specter of corruption, properly and professionally administered, focusing upon improving the lives of Antiguans. A new government could instill American and European confidence in such a program, and make progress in the restoration of the American visa access privileges that Antiguans previously enjoyed.

Clearly, Antiguans have a clear choice to make at election time; partnership with the United States, in mutually beneficial expanded tourism, increased construction and agriculture projects, bringing additional employment, or remaining within China's orbit, insuring future problems with America, and continuing economic doldrums that only benefit the privileged few. Choose well, Antigua & Barbuda.

WHERE DID THAT PHOTO COME FROM?

Someone asked me where the original photograph was taken, by whom and why. Famed Miami portrait photographer Jeffrey Salter took it for an article that appeared in the Times of London, when my autobiography THE LAUNDRY MAN (Penguin Random House UK) was first published.  https://lnkd.in/ekjtqbxN

The location was underneath the Powell Bridge on Miami's Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne. You can see the Port of Miami in the background; on the far right, the high-rise buildings of South Beach peek out behind the gantry cranes at the port. Whether this isolated spot was the venue for my covert money laundering events during the tumultuous "Miami Vice" period of the 1980s must remain buried forever, I am afraid, especially since the city fathers have chosen to ignore that colorful part of Miami's history, but it has served as a rendezvous for those whose business must remain in the shadows.

AS AMERICA MOVES ITS ATTENTION TOWARDS CUBA, THAT REGIME'S EASTERN CARIBBEAN ALLIES SHOULD BE WORRIED

Resignation 2 by ALEX CEPPI

The President of the United States bluntly used the word "conquest," recently, when referring to his short-term political and military intentions post-Iran War, and given the close relationship that has existed for decades between Communist Cuba and the Eastern Caribbean states, they should be concerned that they face possible sanctions when America targets Cuba for regime change.

Donald Trump, when taking office in January 2025, reinstated Cuba's status as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and his administration, led by Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Secretary of State, has openly advocated regime change there. Whether we will see a naval blockade, or even military action, to topple the regime we cannot say, but given the unexpected American attack on Iran, which was a radical departure from decades of American foreign policy, something unusually aggressive could occur, after the Iran situation stabilizes. The terrorist designation can most certainly be used to justify offensive action against Cuba. Given the fact that some of the Eastern Caribbean states have soundly rebuffed America's request that they cancel their use of Cuban doctors and medical services, which the US has shown constitutes human trafficking, and the US also disapproves of the education of Caribbean nationals, including several of its current senior leaders, inside Cuba, given that individuals who have received this training often retain an open political association with the Communist regime after returning home, these can be cited as reasons for American action. All this could serve as a pretext for sanctions, or some other form of punitive actions against the Caribbean states, within an American broad-based campaign against the Cuban government. Given that, due to national security risks caused by the improper issuance of economic passports by several of the EC states, the region is already facing a form of sanctions, the imposition of additional economic, social, and political sanctions against the Eastern Caribbean states, as a component of an American move against Cuba, to further isolate it in the region, and facilitate regime change, is a foreseeable event. The fragile, tourism-centric economies of the Eastern Caribbean states would suffer greatly if the US, whose vacation visitors constitute the vast majority of tourists, and whose airlines and cruise ships keep Caribbean economies more or less afloat, were reined in by the American government. These countries would be well advised to transfer the affiliation of their pro-Cuba leadership to the United States, and break ties to Cuba now, to avoid a possible economic nightmare, caused by their longtime political love affair with a Communist regime in the region.

MALTA'S EMBATTLED PRIME MINISTER CALLS AN EARLY ELECTION, FEARING THAT THE SPECIAL WITNESS TO BE CALLED IN THE DAPHNE ASSASSINATION TRIAL WILL DRIVE LABOUR FROM POWER

Witness 4 by ALEX CEPPI www.alexceppi.com

ROBERT ABELA, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta, will reportedly soon call for a national election, one year early, due to his concerns about blistering witness testimony, expected at the upcoming trial of Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination defendant YORGEN FENECH, which could drive the sitting Malta Labour Party for office, if the election were to be held at the normal scheduled date in 2027. An individual scheduled to testify, having first-hand knowledge, who has been dubbed the Special Witness by the media, is expected to implicate a number of senior Labour Party leaders in the fatal terrorist bombing of the country's premier investigative journalist, including Prime Minister JOSEPH MUSCAT, who resigned in disgrace in 2020. We are aware of the identity of the Special Witness, but believe that to disclose that information, ahead of trial testimony, would not be in the best interests of justice, and may violate Maltese law.

Longtime readers of my Malta news coverage know that I have sources within the Labour Party unhappy with Abela's lack of leadership, and his complete lack of decision-making skills. As we have repeatedly reported, he routinely relies upon his father, former Maltese president GEORGE ABELA, with whom he frequently consults with, to make the hard decisions, and who truly runs the show in the OPM.

Our information is that PM ABELA will publicly announce the early election on May 1, during local festivities, with the election date to be set for June 11, due to the five week delay required by the Constitution. Whether JOSEPH MUSCAT will be indicted, as the direct result of the forthcoming testimony of the Special Witness, or instead be forced to flee into exile, with his wife, MICHELLE MUSCAT, we cannot say, but we will be paying close attention to the news of the Fenech trial testimony.