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

MORE DISTURBING FACTS EMERGE IN ANTIGUA'S ALFA NERO SCANDAL

                                

If you didn't have the opportunity to watch last night's panel discussion, conducted by investigative journalist NIKKI PHOENIX, featuring three Antiguan attorneys and yours truly, regarding the ALFA NERO Antigua yacht scandal, you missed an outstanding detailed analysis of the issues. We learned that the government of Antigua was offered $67m for the seized Russian Yacht, valued at USD$150m, but curiously accepted a much smaller $40m offer. Moreover, $4m of the purchase price was not delivered at closing, and only when issues were raised did part of the unpaid balance get remitted. A suspicious $450,000 "referral fee," paid to an Antiguan diplomat, also was part of the unfolding scandal.

The most disturbing aspect of the new information revealed at this discussion is the fact that the yacht is mysteriously now being offered for sale, by the new owners, at a price substantially higher than it was sold for by Antigua. Was the entire sale a sham, intended to benefit undisclosed senior members of the Government of Antigua, specifically to benefit Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE, who is reputed to have received a secret "commission" at the rate of 50%?

Antigua attorney VERE BIRD III raised the important point of who will pay for the ultimate disposition of the Russian claims that the vessel, which contained an extremely valuable art collection, was illegally sold. The mysterious missing government file, which cannot now be found, the fact that the sales proceeds does not appear in government accounts, and the disclosure by the country's digital information head that all the data on the sale have been wiped from digital records, all add up to a criminal conspiracy to enrich certain parties hiding in the shadows, including by not limited to GASTON BROWNE. We doubt that the answers will ever surface, and the people of Antigua will most likely end up paying the bill for the illegal sale, and diversion of proceeds from, a Russian luxury yacht that Antigua had no legal right to sell whatsoever.

Our thanks to DR. KEN SAMUEL, VERE BIRD III, and the HON. SHERFIELD BOWEN, for their active participation on the program, and Nikki Phoenix for moderating.

Here is my segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8HAMdHndlU&t=6s

IRAQI WAR CRIMINALS LIVING IN THE UK, ENTERED WITH SAINT KITTS CBI PASSPORTS, USED BRITISH SUBJECTS AS HUMAN SHIELDS IN KUWAIT IN THE GULF WAR

What really gets me about the law in the United Kingdom is the fact that there are Iraqi nationals formerly with Saddam's regime, residing in London, who the authorities won't extradite to face justice in Iraq, because British authorities fear they will face "inhuman or degrading treatment" there. These are the same individuals who committed murder, torture and Crimes Against Humanity for Saddam, and left with millions of US Dollars in cash. These individuals entered the UK with SAINT KITTS & NEVIS CBI PASSPORTS, issued by then SKN CIU Chairman LES KHAN; why isn't Khan serving time in a UK prison today? Because the British Government has no spine.

LES KHAN and CARIBBEAN GALAXY's YING JIN

The ultimate insult is that some of these Iraqi officials, who committed a documented 2000 war crime against British citizens, actually used British citizens as human shields in Kuwait during the Gulf War, and later got immunity from prosecution from the UK government. Will someone please explain that to me?

US MILITARY STRIKES ST. LUCIA DRUG TRAFFICKERS; HALF A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE WASHES AHORE IN SAINT VINCENT

For those people who have dismissed the United States' current counter drug campaign in the Eastern Caribbean as Big Stick colonialism, this week's news should provide a wake up call regarding the truth. This week, an American drone attacked a vessel carrying a huge load of cocaine en route to North America, resulting in the death of three individuals, some of whom have been identified as citizens of SAINT LUCIA. After the attack, an estimated USD$500,000,000 of cocaine washed up on the beaches of Saint Vincent. So you see, the danger is real; the drug threat continues to constitute a Clear and Present Danger to the United States, to authorize the strong American naval presence in the region.

 The Labour Government of Saint Lucia, including its Prime Minister, PHILIP J.PIERRE, who has been accused of associating with his country's organized crime cocaine gangs, to assist him with election fraud and the buying of votes at National Election time, in exchange for immunity from criminal prosecution, is strangely silent about the news. Sources in Saint Lucia advise that PM Pierre regularly receives drug profits to supplement his campaign fund, and that he does not fear the US Department of Justice, so long as he is able to repeatedly buy his reelection, and thereby foil and possible extradition to America, but we wonder what he thinks about what happened to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whom Pierre closely associated with?

THE REAL REASON WHY CARIBBEAN LEADERS ARE SILENT, DESPITE UNIVERSAL AMERICAN RESTRICTIONS ON VISAS AND GREEN CARDS, AND TUMULT ON THE HIGH SEAS

Readers who have been asking why St. Kittts Foreign Minister DENZIL DOUGLAS, St. Lucia Investment Minister ERNEST HILAIRE, Antigua Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE, Dominica PM ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, and all the other senior leaders of the Five Eastern Caribbean states with CBI programs, are curiously silent, notwithstanding the imposition of severe restrictions upon the ability of their citizens to enter or reside in the United States; the answer is simple. All of these leaders have extremely large bank accounts, real estate holdings, and other significant properties in amounts that far exceed their legitimate income and assets, and which were obtained through bribes, kickbacks and other forms of financial crime, and the U.S. Department of Justice knows precisely where they are located; all of this information was revealed during Discovery proceedings in Federal Court, and shared with the DOJ by the plaintiffs in civil litigation.

That is why, aside from small public statements by Caribbean leaders condemning President Trump for America's visa restrictions, and the naval counter drug campaign (which this week took the lives of Saint Lucia citizens allegedly engaged in drug trafficking), the leadership has pointedly refrained from angering a resurgent America, whose new foreign policy directly affects each and every West Indian who wishes to visit the United States, or reside there. Add the arrest of Venezuelan dictator NICOLAS MADURO from office, and Caribbean leaders wonder which amongst them might be next, as their close personal relationship with the Venezuelan dictator could have unintended consequences for them, resulting in one or more of them standing the dock in an American courtroom, charged with money laundering, fraud and violations of our anti-corruption laws .

US warship in St. Lucia waters

So, we trust that our readers now understand why the Caribbean leadership now stands mute; they fear the loss of their ill-gotten gains, and their freedom, at the hands of the American goliath.

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ANTIGUA'S ALFA NERO SCANDAL, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

FRIDAY 7 P.M. EASTERN TIME; ON FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE. WATCH ME EXPOSE THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT THE MISSING MILLIONS AND ANTIGUA PRIME MINISTER GASTON BROWNE'S PRIMARY ROLE IN THE COVERUP.  

Here's the link for Friday's Program:

https://www.facebook.com/morningsip268/

MEET SAINT KITTS FOREIGN MINISTER DENZIL DOUGLAS, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT CHINA INTO THE CARIBBEAN, AND PAIN TO THE CITIZENS OF THE FIVE CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT STATES

Denzil Douglas

This is former Saint Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister DENZIL DOUGLAS, currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Industry, Commerce, and Consumer Affairs. It was Douglas, a bare-knuckle old school Kittitian politician, who invited Chinese-controlled passport sales companies into his region's lucrative Caribbean Citizenship by Investment industry, and facilitated the massive fraud whereby billions of dollars were permitted to be diverted directly to the Hong Kong coffers of China. Douglas is the father of the systemic cheating of the patrimony of Caribbean constituents out of CBI income through fraud, money laundering and corruption, and who skimmed off millions of US Dollars through bribes and kickbacks from China, for his role in the scam. Once he opened the door, and let the Chinese in, they obtained tens of thousands of SKN passports, and moved on to do the same to the other four Caribbean CBI states, with the results that we are seeing now in 2026. And the people in the Caribbean wonder why the US is now becoming hard on CBI and has placed visa restrictions on them.

I have been covering Douglas since he left the premiership back in 2015. Having brought Saint Kitts' passports into disrepute, he conveniently travels using a diplomatic passport issued by the nearby Commonwealth of Dominica, which curiously shows him as a native-born Dominican.

He returned to power in 2022 in the present government, as Foreign Minister with powerful additional portfolios for International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, after bringing the present SKN Prime Minister TERRANCE DREW, into power, he cheated the adroit political advisor that he brought in to win the election out of his six figure fee, again demonstrating his total lack of honor and ethics.

All the visa and passport heat that the five Caribbean CBI states are taking, from the Trump Administration, and the UK and EU governments, over the national security threats posed by China, whom Douglas invited in the region, due to his greed and avarice, is strictly due to his getting into bed with the CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, which raped the CBI program there and in Saint Lucia, and which resulted in HENG SHENG's subsequent and successful penetration of the Caribbean. West Indians, the reason you cannot visit your relatives in New York and elsewhere, is Denzil Douglas, the architect of your present dire political, and soon economic, distress, and it's about to get worse for you.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

DIPLOMAT FROM ANTIGUA SACKED FOR ACCEPTING ILLEGAL USD$450,000 REFERRAL FEE IN SALE OF RUSSIAN SUPERYACHT ALPHA NERO

The yacht ALPHA NERO

In the government of Antigua & Barbuda's Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE, you really have to go over the top with your corrupt actions, to be called on the carpet for it, and JOHANN HESSE, a consultant who holds a diplomatic passport naming him ambassador to the AFRICAN UNION, did just that. Hesse, through his business partner, accepted as USD$450,000 "introduction fee", in connection with the suspicious (if not outright illegal) Antigua Government sale of the Russian Superyacht ALPHA NERO. Hesse was sacked by PM Browne for this conflict of interest violation, and breach of his duties. It has been speculated that the illicit payment would have been accepted, had Browne been personally cut into the deal, and received a portion thereof.

Like many of the Antiguans appointed to be diplomats, complete with diplomatic passports that allow the holder to evade customs and immigration controls when entering other countries, the position is totally bogus, and doesn't meet the requirements of the United Nations' Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Antigua is neither a Member, nor even an Observer State, at the African Union, which is a group of African countries in a loose international organization, with no international status, duties or power. Hesse uses his diplomatic passport to facilitate his completely private business affairs. He is no more a bona fide diplomat than I am.

We recently published a list of all the Antiguan"diplomats," and American and British compliance officers would do well to insure that none of them are bank clients, lest their bank be exposed to potential money laundering liability, or other possible criminal exposure, by assuming their client or customer does not have funds from his private business flowing through his accounts.

WE TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE PEPS OF ANTIGUA WHO USE DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS FOR MONEY LAUNDERING, FRAUD AND CORRUPTION ON BEHALF OF GASTON BROWNE AND HIS LABOR PARTY

AS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SURFACES ON ANGUILLA IBC SCANDAL, COMPLIANCE OFFICERS SHOULD CONSIDER BLACKLISTING THE JURISDICTION FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES

We have just now received additional details regarding the situation in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which we intend to share with our readers, but we consider that information so egregious, that we urge our compliance officer readers to act as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) used to do with such cases, and blacklist it as a Non-Cooperative Territory.

While regulators no longer place a blanket blacklist on a jurisdiction for serious cases of rampant money laundering, financial crime, fraud and even official corruption, it is up to individual compliance officers, now working under a mandatory risk-based compliance regime, to make that decision, as it applies to their bank or non-bank financial institution. When conditions permit, we will specify the grounds for our statement regarding the threat level represented by the jurisdiction's international business corporation and Registry.

NIGERIANS BUYING EXPENSIVE CARIBBEAN CBI PASSPORTS, DENIED THE U.S. VISA THEIR INVESTMENT MIGRATION VENDOR PROMISED THEM, DEMAND A REFUND PLUS MONEY DAMAGES FOR THEIR PLIGHT

The word is out in Nigeria, amongst the wealthy individuals who forked out hefty fees to obtain a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport from vendors selling SAINT KITTS & NEVIS citizenships. When they go to a U.S. Consulate abroad to secure that American visa, which was promised to them by their passport sales consultancy, they find out SKN passport holders are now redlined, and they comes home empty handed. plus, those Nigerians who have already received U.S. visas in the past, now find that they have been revoked, or not renewed.

We are hearing that the Nigerian clients of many of Dubai's principal investment migration companies are demanding full refunds, as well as money damages. The reason for the money damages, say their attorneys, is because they purchased their passports at illegal discounts, and this incriminating detail surfaces when they applied (unsuccessfully) for a US visa; that's Passport Fraud, and now they are barred from forever getting an American visa in any other way. Whether the person who sold you that Caribbean passport at an illegal discount has exposed himself to American criminal charges is beyond the scope of this article, but I understand the U.S. is examining that issue.Lucious Gab-Umoden, LU GOLD CEO, may want to look into that.

CEO Lucious Gab-Umoden

So, consider this a warning to a Nigerian holders of Saint Kitts AND Saint Lucia CBI passports; do NOT go to an American Consulate, seeking to get a U.S. visa, as you may end up biting off more than you can chew. I many wonder how many Dubai-based consultancies, like HENG SHENG, close up, only to reopen virtually under another corporate name, with new bank accounts but the same client base.

INDIA FEARS THAT MEHUL CHOKSI'S UK LAWYERS WILL UNWITTINGLY DEPOSIT CLEANED CRIMINAL PROCEEDS INTO THE COURT REGISTRY IN THE PENDING BRITISH CIVIL SUIT

Michael Polak

Reports from India have confirmed that there are well-placed fears, on the part of the Government of India, that the team of British lawyers headed by barrister MICHAEL POLAK will unwittingly deposit cleaned criminal proceeds into the court registry, in the civil case where Choksi alleges he was kidnapped, in an abortive Indian attempt to bring him home to face fraud charges. The High Court has now required him to place £677,000, for costs, in the event he loses the case, after declaring that there has been insufficient evidence produced to date to prove his sensational allegations of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by India.

India has claimed in the media that Choksi is behind the acquisition of assets by third parties under his control, using his funds, which were obtained through bank fraud, and that these assets would now be produced as legitimate sources of funds for the required cost deposit. As Choksi's lead lawyer, British barrister MICHAEL POLAK, is a human rights campaigner with little or no experience in money laundering and financial crime cases, India's concern appears to have a factual basis.

Furthermore, in its most recent opinion, the court openly questioned Choksi's ability to produce legitimate funds, and even wondered aloud how he was paying his attorneys. We echo that concern, and believe that the Court must initiate an inquiry into both Source of Funds for the proposed cost deposit, and the Source of Wealth for the attorneys' fees which were used to retain Mr. Polak.

Some legal observers, who have been watching the lengthy legal proceedings surrounding Choksi's extradition, in Antigua as well as Belgium, believe that the UK civil suit was only filed to give him leverage in his ultimate criminal case in India, when it comes to sentencing. They believe the kidnapping allegations are a fictional contrivance employed as a purely tactical move by his international team of attorneys. My 2023 Investigative Report concluded that there was evidence of Choksi's failed plan to escape to extradition-free Cuba, where he had a residence already set up for his arrival.