FRAUDSTERS CREATE BOGUS NEW YORK CITY LAW FIRM, COMPLETE WITH FICTITIOUS IMMIGRATION COURT ON VIDEOCONFERENCE, TO CHEAT CLIENTS OUT OF HUGE LEGAL FEES

                               

Remember that 2019 case in France, regarding the fraudsters who impersonated the French Foreign Minister via video, and who defrauded wealthy businessmen out of millions, who believed they were aiding in terrorist kidnapping cases? 
FRENCH FRAUDSTERS IMPERSONATE FOREIGN MINISTER, TAKE €8m FROM VICTIM

The bogus French Foreign =Minister

Well, someone has taken a page out of that playbook, and set up not only a bogus New York City immigration law firm, but a dummy immigration court, complete with robed judges and law enforcement officials, all via videoconference, to fool clients into paying up to six figures for a "successful" immigration proceeding. The defendants advertised on social media, and everything was done remotely, with some victims actually appearing remotely, as these "lawyers" won their immigration cases.

The victims, believing that they were the beneficiaries of some very astute legal advice and counsel, neglected to attend to their bona fide immigration cases, and one was about to be deported as the result. Two of the defendants were arrested as they were about to use one way tickets back to Colombia.

The one glaring mistake that I note the fraudsters made was that they conducted the entire "court hearings" in Spanish; US court hearings are conducted entirely on English. They face some serious charges: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Wire Fraud,Money Laundering Conspiracy, and False Impersonation of an Officer or Employee of the United States. If convicted, it will be many years before their release and immediate deportation abroad. (Yes, they themselves are not citizens).

I wonder what the now-imprisoned French fraudsters think of these American criminals, stealing their concept of staging bogus officials appearing remotely, defraud victims of their money.

EXTENDED WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL CAUSE THOUSANDS OF FRIGHTENED CBI PASSPORT HOLDERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO RELOCATE TO THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES

Damage is widespread throughout the Gulf State

The Iranian missile attacks upon the supposedly safe Gulf states, where dire conditions faced by tens of thousands of individuals who hold Citizenship by Investment passports issued by the five Eastern Caribbean CBI & CIP states,(ST. KITTS, ST. LUCIA, DOMINICA, ANTIGUA & GRENADA) could drive those High Net Worth Individuals to immediately relocate out of the Middle East, for their own personal safety, with all of their immediate and extended families, all of whom are economic passport holders. Remember, even distant relatives, minor children, cousins and others all hold CBI passports, and their families will be bringing them along, seeking a safe haven from the war.

The impact of this human wave of emergency immigration, which is occurring due to a lack of knowledge as to how long the war between the US and Israel, and Iran, will last, and how widespread the attacks on Middle Eastern countries will ultimately extend to, is a major factor in this urgent travel to the safe Caribbean states where entry is guaranteed due to possession of economic passports of CARICOM countries. Immigration authorities in the CBI Caribbean states, who have only a small contingent of agents and office staff, will be totally overloaded will the unexpected volume, and delays in processing arrivals will completely break down at the region's tiny airports.

What effect this mass influx of individuals, many of whom have no residences in the region, do not speak English, and will bring with them extended families, we cannot say, but as they must be accepted due to their citizenship status, chaos may be the result, as residential facilities, the small local economies, health care, and other infrastructure may be strained to the limit by the new refugees.

We will have monitors in place in the region, who will reports back to us on all unfolding developments in this new Caribbean crisis.

CARIBBEAN CBI PASSPORT HOLDERS WONDER IF THE NEW UNITED KINGDOM ETA POLICY WILL RESULT IN BEING DENIED ENTRY

After seeing how Norway artfully blocked Caribbean CBI passport holders from visa-free entry, without requiring any policy changes, by employing an obscure law requiring personal appearance to pick up a passport, insiders in the investment migration industry are wondering if a similar ploy will be the case with the new United Kingdom ETA ( Electronic Travel Authorisation) rules, which became effective on February 25, 2026.

For those who believe UK Migration and Citizenship will be unable to spot them as holders of economic (investment) passports, simply checking all the passports of the five Eastern Caribbean CBI-passport states, and looking at those individuals whose place of birth is other than the country that issued the passport, will result in 99% of those in that category.

We await the screams and cries of those individuals who spent six figures to enter the UK visa-free, and are now blocked from even obtaining a ticket to Heathrow Airport. Remember, the same thing is happening in Fall 2026 with the European Union.

Whether these events will be an existential threat to Caribbean CBI we cannot say, but we will be watching.

VICTIM OF UNREGULATED ANGUILLA SHELL COMPANY SCAM REPORTED DETAILS, BUT HAS BEEN IGNORED IN INTERNATIONAL FRAUD

Allow me to put the facts in the victim's own succinct and concise words. Given the prominent position of INFINOX in the industry, we cannot understand the brazen theft of a customer's middle six figure profit, and the fact that Anguilla regulators, who are charged with oversight and supervision, have not taken the appropriate steps to enforce the law, and aid the victim.

Follow our continuing investigation, step by step, through our analysis and commentary, as it unfolds here.

US TIGHTENS VISA RULES; SINGLE ENTRY, ONLY VALID FOR 90 DAY PERIOD; OLD RULES NO LONGER IN FORCE

Issued by the White House

There has been a new decree from President Donald Trump: In addition to imposing a complete ban on Caribbean nationals emigrating to the United States, from the five CBI Eastern Caribbean states, America has now placed severe limitations on the issuance of visitor visas for citizens of ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, and the COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA. Only single entry visas will be granted for nationals from those countries, and they will be valid for 90 days. The prior 10 year, multiple entry visas will not longer be issued, due to what is stated was widespread abuse of that privilege. Visas for St. Kitts, St. Lucia and other Eastern Caribbean states remain paused at this time

The grounds for all these restrictions, which was stated in the Presidential Action, is the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport sales programs being operated by the five Eastern Caribbean States.

$ 3bn CHINESE MONEY LAUNDERING KINGPIN ESCAPED SINGAPORE CRIMINAL DRAGNET BY ONE DAY USING HIS VANUATU CBI PASSPORT TO CHEAT JUSTICE

Information released this week in Singapore, regarding one of the principal Chinese players in the three billion dollar Singapore money laundering operation confirmed that he escaped the massive arrests by only one day, by leaving Singapore with his VANUATU Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport to exit with impunity. The details came out in connection with testimony from one of his subordinates, who was assigned the storage of the fugitive's $7m liquor collection, after he fled to avoid criminal prosecution for the money laundering of illicit mainland China gambling profits.

While we do not wish to portray all CBI passport holders as bad actors, a large portion of the world's transnational criminals arrested around the world are found to be holding, and employing, CBI passports to facilitate their offenses. we also remember that some of the other money launderers arrested in the Singapore case held ST. KITTS AND NEVIS passports. Compliance officers should always institute enhanced due diligence procedures on any customer or client or third party or counterparty, found to be using a CBI or CIP passport for identification or account opening.

ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER ACCUSES UNREGULATED ANGUILLA SHELL COMPANY OF MISCONDUCT FOR SEIZING HIS SIX FIGURE PROFITS IN INFINOX OFFSHORE SCANDAL

We have received a new report from an Asian reader who, after reviewing our recent investigative series on Anguilla, has detailed a tale of his CFD trading at INFINOX, through its offshore facilities. He asserts that, after he made a profit of USD$650,000, his funds were illegally seized, and his entire trade and transaction history deleted All his subsequent efforts to recover his funds have been in vain.

Of interest is the fact that, when he sought relief through the Mauritius regulator, he learned that the appropriate corporate entity is an Anguilla company. Inquiries from Anguilla regulatory authorities appear to have been totally ignored by INFINOX, and his next move is UK supervisory regulators, as although he was dealing with a Mauritius-licensed entity, it now appear that iut was an regulated Anguilla IBC. Our investigation continues.

WTF? FINCEN WRONGLY RESCINDS ITS LANDMARK ADVISORY ON MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIME CAUSED BY SAINT KITTS & NEVIS CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS; IF ANYTHING, THE SITUATION IS WORSE TODAY THAN IN 2014, DUE TO THE CARIBBEAN GALAXY SCANDAL

What on earth is going on over the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)? Someone over there has now rescinded its groundbreaking Advisory FIN-2014-A004, entitled PASSPORTS OBTAINED THROUGH ST. KITTS AND NEVIS CITIZENSHIP-BY-INVESTMENT PROGRAM USED TO FACILITATE FINANCIAL CRIME, whose content remains painfully accurate today, and was the first real FinCEN countermove against the widespread use of CBI by financial criminals.

If anything, the unlawful sale of tens of thousands of SKN passports by the Chinese controlled company, CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, to dodgy Asian financial criminals, intelligence agents, sanctions evaders, and people engaged in industrial espionage for China, has made the situation worse than a decade ago, and the Trump Administration has, if anything, ratcheted up its focus on that corrupt Eastern Caribbean state in 2026. So what happened here?

America's bankers expect more from their primary AML/CFT regulatory agency than this complete lapse of judgment, but given that most senior leadership there only use it as a stepladder to a subsequent lucrative career in the private sector, rather than stay on for a decade or more, I guess we should not be surprised. FinCEN, reinstate Advisory 2014-A004, forthwith, so that compliance officers will continue to correctly regard CBI passports as high risk.

HOW MONEY LAUNDERERS VIEW IBC SHELL COMPANIES: "USE THEM, ABUSE THEM AND LOSE THEM"

"Prime Minister Gaston Browne says about 13,500 international business companies have been removed from the corporate registry as authorities move to strengthen compliance and oversight in the offshore sector." (Antigua Newsroom, 24, February, 2026.)

If you learned last week, on Nikki Phoenix' program, that 13,500 international business companies (IBC) were struck off (administratively dissolved) in Antigua and Barbuda, you know from my response that many of these corporations, most of whom were certainly formed by money launderers, had already fulfilled their illicit purpose, and were intentionally allowed to expire, before any serious beneficial ownership and officer information was disclosed to regulators. All this nonsense emanating from Antigua's Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE, to the effect that the dissolution of this large number of companies was evidence of compliance success on the part of his government were merely covering up the fact that Antigua remains one of the most lax offshore jurisdictions for financial criminals.

In my old line of work, cleaning the proceeds of crime for narcotics traffickers, the modus operandi was to efficiently use, abuse and lose companies, way in advance of any reporting requirements imposed by regulators. Laundrymen are well aware of the Window of Opportunity which exists, between the formation of and IBC, and the date in which mandatory information must be delivered.

Therefore, the measure of anti-money laundering in any financial services jurisdiction is not how many dodgy shell companies have been allowed to expire, unmolested by local authorities, but how many money laundering prosecutions have been brought, and in Antigua, the answer is generally zero; I rest my case.

AMERICAN-OWNED COMPANY, HAVING LOST $50m DEPOSITED IN NOW TOTALLY INSOLVENT HAMILTON RESERVE BANK, SUES NEVIS REGULATOR, MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO RECOVER ITS FUNDS

One of the recurring nightmares that anyone who tempts the fates, and places large amounts of their capital in any offshore bank located in a Caribbean financial center has is waking up one morning to find that your millions of US Dollars are gone, and as there is no government insurance or other means of security, the loss is total and permanent. I can tell you from personal experience that it is a devastating, potentially life-changing event that I never want to wish on anyone.

A company, having deposited fifty million at Nevis-based HAMILTON RESERVE BANK, a dodgy offshore institution where a number of its clients have lost their funds, has taken the extraordinary step of filing suit, in a Caribbean court, against the local financial regulatory agency, the Minister of Finance, and the Attorney General, asserting massive violations of the NEVIS INTERNATIONAL BANKING ORDINANCE.

The victim, US-owned INTERCOASTAL FINANCE LTD. alleges that the defendants failed to properly supervise Hamilton's operations, which resulted in a breach of their duty to actively protect depositors and the public, and then later, when issues arose, failed to take control of the bank and its assets, neither revoking its banking license, nor properly winding down the bank's affairs.

In essence, the plaintiff asserts that the defendants were negligent, and violated banking statutes. They blame Nevis Premier MARK BRANTLEY, whom they allege secured their banking license, notwithstanding a clear conflict of interest, and whose political rise was supported by the bank.

Whether this litigation will ultimately affect the NEVIS ISLAND ADMINISTRATION, and result in the people of Nevis having to financially pick up the tab for governmental malfeasance, and this scandal have a knock-on effect on the Caribbean financial structure in general, is a major concern in the region. the case could severely impact the attractiveness of Caribbean offshore financial centers to new foreign investors, who will point to this scandal as evidence of instability, and look to financial services providers elsewhere. Even if a solution is eventually found, Nevis may not easily recover, and if other investors and clients of the bank go down this road, the consequences for Nevis will be catastrophic. 

FEDERAL JUDGE DECLINES TO RULE AGAINST NEW REPORTING FOR CASH RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE SALES; HOW WILL MONEY LAUNDERERS RESPOND?

                     

The legal challenge, brought by America's largest title insurers, failed last week, when a United States District Judge in Florida ruled against its Constitutional arguments. This means that, effective March 1, 2026, closing agents will be reporting all cash real estate transactions to regulators. See Case No.: 3:25-cv-554-WWB-SJH (MDFL).

The question now becomes, how will the money laundering fraternity, which has effectively cleaned the proceeds of crime through real estate transactions for decades, respond? Personally, I can think of a number of methods and techniques that will most likely be employed:

(1) Creating "financial entities," shell companies will names deceptively similar to banks and non-bank financial institutions, to fund the closings, using what purport to be mortgages and other types of financing, as the new regulation only applies to cash sales. The laundrymen will assume that the real estate agents involved don't look to closely at the "bank" extending the "loan."

(2) Working off the record directly with the seller, to have him create two closing statements, of which one is assumption of the existing mortgage, creating a phantom second mortgage (which is really cash under the table), when it is really a cash transaction.

(3) Looking for FSBO sellers ( For Sale by Owner) where there is no broker or title company , and where the seller is ignorant of the new regulation, or swayed by the offer of cash.

Remember, in the world of money laundering, you are only limited by your imagination; expect laundrymen to adapt to the new reporting requirement by driving around it, one way or the other. They will create new workarounds.

READ THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ORDER REQUIRING THE MASSIVE COST DEPOSIT IN THE CHOKSI UK CIVIL CASE

 

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IN GIBRALTAR

The chaos we have seen today at Mexican airports, and the advice being dispensed to travelers caught in the cross hairs, reminds me of the time I flew into GIB, Gibraltar International Airport, to lecture to the local compliance officers there on how money launderers operate. Apparently, they sent a welcoming committee to the airport to meet and greet me, which was unknown to me, but as I was bringing something for the attendees that Customs might want to examine, and possibly seize, for as I was not going to declare it, I had other plans.

Drawing upon my old days as a career money launderer used to artfully evading scrutiny upon arrival at dozens of international airports, I chose to embed myself in the midst of a large group of what appeared to be arriving British nationals on holiday. We call that Hiding in Plain Sight, and employing them as a screen, I was able to disappear into the crowd at the arrivals area.

When I arrived at my hotel, I received a call from a representative of the compliance association, wondering if I actually did make it to Gibraltar, and surprised that this old money launderer still had a few tricks up his sleeve.

I hope that the nervous American tourists now caught in a dangerous situation at Mexican hotels, and worried about Cartel gunmen showing up and creating possible personal threats find a way to blend into the background, and stay safe.

FINANCIAL TIMES REPORTS THAT ST. KITTS CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAM CHAIRMAN LES KHAN RECEIVED BRIBES FROM CARIBBEAN GALAXY WHILE RUNNING THE CIU

                                           

In an extensive article detailing the massive CBI illegal discounted pricing scandal, the Financial Times this week exposed the double dealing activities of LES KHAN a/k/a LESLIE KHAN, the Chairman of Saint Kitts & Nevis' corrupt Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport sales program. Khan received regular bribes and kickbacks, direct from the Chinese government-controlled passport sales vendor CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, allowing Galaxy's heavily discounted (up to more than of the legal minimum price) passport sales to be approved, according to the FT story.

The article, THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH, which we strongly recommend be reviewed by anyone with a interest in what is referred to as the investment migration industry, tracks the story of Hollywood film producer PHILIPPE MARTINEZ, whose Caribbean moviemaking operations in Saint Kitts and Nevis, MSR Media, become a participant in the two-island nation's Citizenship by Investment program. Martinez, who publicly exposed the fraud, money laundering and corruption that permeated the CBI program, and who uncovered Galaxy's central role in dominating the illegal sales of tens of thousands of passports to Chinese nationals, who used the SKN travel documents to enter the United States and commit crimes and espionage on behalf of China, opened the door to revealing the full extent of the expanding Chinese national security threat to America, through CBI.

Readers can find the article here:

https://www.ft.com/content/77670792-4ec4-4ce6-aa4d-476733813a52