ANTGUA'S FUTILE NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUE, TO LINK THE LIFTING OF VISA RESTRICTIONS TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF DEPORTEES, FALLS FLAT

Apparently, Antigua's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, thought that he could condition his country's acceptance of foreign nationals who were being deported from America to a removal of the U.S. visa restrictions imposed upon Antiguans last December 15 by President Donald Trump. In his arrogance, Browne had this condition precedent inserted into the nation's White Paper.

Unfortunately for Antigua, the ploy fell flat. This comes on top of the exposure as government propaganda Browne's repeated statements that the visa restrictions would be lifted as of July 1st. That date has come and gone, and the restrictions remain in full force and effect, to Browne's supreme and total embarrassment.

The sooner Antiguans learn that there's only one way the visa sanctions will be lifted by the USA, and Browne has refused to do it. ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA: THERE'S ONLY A SINGLE SOLUTION THAT WILL GUARANTEE THE REMOVAL OF PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICAN VISAS, BUT NEITHER OF THEIR AVARICIOUS GOVERNMENTS CAN BE TRUSTED TO DO IT

https://rijock.blogspot.com/2026/07/antigua-and-dominica-theres-only-only.html

COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS VERY BAD NEWS FOR GASTON BROWNE AND ANTIGUA'S VENEZUELAN MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANIZATION

Alex Saab Moran/Abelardo De La Espriella

If you do not follow Latin American politics, be advised that Colombia's Presidential Election has resulted in the elevation of right-wing nationalist lawyer and politician ABELARDO GABRIEL DE LA ESPRIELLA OTERO to the office of President. President-Elect De la Espriella, of the Defenders of the Republic, a conservative, hardline political movement, holds dual US and Colombian citizenship, and is a diehard supporter of President Donald Trump's policies. Trump supported him in his election campaign over his opponent. 

Colombia's newest president's law firm has offices in three cities in Colombia and in Miami; he owns a home in Miami's pricey Pinecrest area, previously lived on Brickell Avenue and his four children were all born here. De La Espriella has had a long relationship with what is known as the Magic City. 

Most observers believe De La Espriella, known as EL TIGRE (the Tiger), and elected on an anti-crime platform, will come into office in August during a period of escalating violence from various left-wing criminal organizations, especially the ex-FARC Mafia, which never disarmed after the November 2016 peace agreement brokered by Cuba.

For many years, De La Espriella has represented the Colombian career money launderer ALEX SAAB MORAN, presently in custody in the United States. Moran has a pending case in the Southern District of Florida, while his primary former client, ex-President NICOLAS  MADURO MOROS of Venezuela has his own case in Federal Court in New York, and both are expected to be indicted again in a pending new financial crime case, to be filed in Miami.  

Information from a closed civil case in Florida confirmed that there were transfers of more than $370,000 made in 2014, while De La Espriella was actively representing Saab as his attorney, connected to a controversial housing project that Saab was involved in.The transfers came from Antigua-based and majority government-owned GLOBAL BANK OF COMMERCE, one of the indigenous banks alleged to have been used by Saab to clean the proceeds of Venezuelan narcotics transactions linked to Nicolas Maduro.

Legal experts in Miami are betting that De La Espriella will persuade President Trump to give Saab Moran immunity, a pardon or some other form of relief, after he provides the Department of Justice with evidence and first-hand testimony against Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne's alleged Venezuelan money laundering operation that he assisted Saab with, using Global Bank of Commerce, CARIBBEAN UNION BANK, two offshore Antiguan banks controlled by Saab, and ASA BANK & TRUST, an offshore bank in Dominica also owned by Saab. 

After indictments are secured against Browne and others in Antiguan government, the consensus of opinion is that Saab will be given safe passage back to his native Colombia, his Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card safely in his hands. Browne will want to retain a competent American criminal defense attorney ASAP. 

ST.LUCIA MINISTER RICHARD FREDERICK ARRESTED IN CASE WITH INTERNATIONAL RAMIFICATIONS

Richard Frederick

RICHARD FREDERICK, the controversial Saint Lucia criminal defense attorney and politician, who is presently MINISTER WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, was reportedly arrested in St. Lucia, in a case that has international implications. Frederick, whose career has been rocked repeatedly by scandal, and whose U.S. visa on his diplomatic passport was revoked more than a decade ago, has long been linked to narcotics trafficking, as well as being a relationship with American law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

As soon as more details are available, we shall update our readers accordingly.

WILL WE SEE THE EMERGENCE OF A CARIBBEAN SPRING AMONGST THE ONE PARTY WEST INDIAN STATES WHOSE CITIZENS SEE A DETERIORATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE, DUE TO CORRUPTION?

Read this editorial, appearing this week on Caribbean social media, and ask yourself, will these unhappy constituents of what are dysfunctional democracies, reach the point when they choose alternatives to normal political change? The present United States government must certainly be noticing the unrest, some of which is correctly based upon rampant corruption, and relationships with China. What will happen? We cannot say, but we will be watching.

A LONG EIGHT YEARS LATER, A CORRUPT MALTA STILL HAS NOT PURSUED THE BAD ACTORS AT PILATUS BANK, LEAVING €130m OF DEPOSITOR MONEY IN LIMBO

A legal sore that fails to heal, leaving former clients' millions frozen indefinitely, in a country where justice is trumped by corruption, and the guilty go free to go about about their business. Depositors at the long closed money laundering and Iranian-owned PILATUS BANK pine for their lost deposits, as Malta's archaic criminal justice laws, which protect only the country's financial criminals, pretend to administer justice, while it eludes those foolish enough to place their money in a dodgy bank that came into existence under suspicious circumstances. The country's Compilation of Evidence procedures are nothing more than a legal obscenity.

Eight years the case has languished in legal limbo; nobody will ever be charged, and so long as it remain pending, the deposits cannot be released. To make matters worse, the primary offender's criminal case, brought in the United States, was dismissed by Federal prosecutors in New York for alleged government misconduct, which may very well have been an intentionally staged action, to cover up a covert deal with the defendant, denying any accountability by its Iranian ownership, which facilitated its crimes through the ever-present use of Caribbean economic (CBI) passports.

Personally, legitimate investors who plan to move funds into Malta have only themselves to blame when things go south; compliance officers should just blacklist the entire country, as it continues to operate as the European Union's sole racketeering enterprise masquerading as a sovereign member state. Perhaps the eventual rise in sea levels will solve the EU's biggest money laundering open wound.

ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA: THERE'S ONLY A SINGLE SOLUTION THAT WILL GUARANTEE THE REMOVAL OF PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICAN VISAS, BUT NEITHER OF THEIR AVARICIOUS GOVERNMENTS CAN BE TRUSTED TO DO IT

                                

Donald Trump's American Presidential Directive of 15 September, 2025 on the imposition of major U.S. visa restrictions on Antiguan and Dominican passport holders was crystal clear: it's all about the flaws, defects, loopholes and systemic corruption in their respective Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) economic passport programs. Objectively, this is not in dispute; nor is the validity of the serious American National Security concerns that resulted from the passports issued pursuant to those rogue programs.

Unless and until both EC CBI states undertake a complete and total revision and reform of every aspect of their economic citizenship programs, the United States will rightly, continue to administer and strictly enforce the visa restrictions, including requiring the Draconian bond in those rare cases where
it actually grants a visa. Getting a visa in Antigua is a tough slog; I am aware of a single case, where a special university scholarship applicant actually had to secure the support of a United States Senator to get her application granted.

Although I have zero confidence that, under the present Labour governments in office in both Antigua and Dominica, that their Prime Ministers will ever concede that their rogue programs need a complete overhaul, I present here what they must do to insure that the United States will restore the normal visa privileges that it has so effectively revoked.

(1) The CBI programs must be physically operated from abroad, either from North America, or Europe, where Banking Best Practices, in both due diligence investigations, as well as verification of Source of Funds and Source of Wealth, as well as effective Customer Identification Procedures (CIP), are observed, without exception. Both countries' programs have far too long a dark history of money laundering, fraud and corruption to be ever trusted again. The lure of easy money, to any nation with a dysfunctional, marginal economy that only relies on tourism to survive, is just too powerful for West Indians to resist.

(2) Effective supervision and enforceable regulation of the companies selling passports in the world's Investment Migration industry, whose members have no professional oversight, must be conducted from outside the Caribbean, by whatever onshore agency is operating the CBI programs detailed above.

(3) A comprehensive White Paper, containing a Blueprint of how the CBI laws and regulations of Antigua and Dominica are to be modified and corrected to meet these new requirements, must be drafted and delivered to Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State for his agency's review and feedback, to be coordinated with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Otherwise, the visa restrictions will continue for the forseeable future. Choose well, Antiguans and Dominicans.

THE LAST TIME I WAS IN NEVIS, IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT AS A TOURIST

My decade as a career money launderer, while it resulted in a period of time as a guest of the Bureau of Prisons, it also left me with a skillset regarding money laundering tradecraft that I have subsequently applied as a consultant to media outlets seeking to use that dark knowledge for investigative purposes, in order to expose financial crime. If you ever saw the groundbreaking series that Al Jazeera's Washington DC office did on corruption in the Citizenship by Investment program in Dominica, I was the technical adviser on that program. Those journalists went on to examine the economic citizenship scandal in Cyprus; their story ended up causing that government to terminate the program altogether.

Not long after 9/11, I was engaged by one of America's three major networks to expose the ongoing money laundering industry in Saint Kitts, being operated by local attorneys there. If you read my autobiography THE LAUNDRY MAN, you know that I spent a substantial amount of time there, moving and cleaning the proceeds of narcotics crime for American clients working in Miami, and engaged in trafficking. My goal was now, however, to implicate Kittitian lawyers on camera, while actively engaged in advising them on laundering money for foreign clients. You may remember someone later did the same thing in New York City, showing that some American lawyers weren't themselves above doing the same thing.

I had a client from the old days, long since reformed, who looked a lot like Bin Ladin; he also had a prominent scar on his neck from a bullet wound, when he was once left for dead in a drug transaction gone bad. That was my choice for "customer" who would be seeking money laundering advice. We paired him up with a young lady from a New York company that specialized in covert surveillance. She was to be his current romantic partner, and she was discreetly wired up for video and audio, on her purse and hat.

So as not to alert our targets, the production team and yours truly stayed at the Four Seasons in Nevis, coming over each morning to hit our targets in downtown Basseterre. Our recording equipment was secreted in a nondescript van which was close enough to various lawyers' offices to pick up the signals. as our duo visited several attorneys, delivering intentionally transparent stories about how they needed to hide money offshore from prying eyes.

We stung several lawyers, as well as a sitting magistrate, all of whom implicated themselves in short order. The footage was outstanding, but after we returned, network counsel killed any chance of airing the story, fearing lawsuits from the lawyers, and possible blowback from the government of St. Kitts & Nevis, so the program never was broadcast. That's the last time I had a reason to visit Nevis.

DOMINICA REVOKED 68 PASSPORTS PURCHASED AT AN ILLEGAL DISCOUNT, BUT CONTINUES TO ALLOW ITS CONSULTANTS, AT SAAD AHSAN IMMIGRATION, WHO SOLD 19 OF THEM TO PAKISTANI NATIONALS, TO MARKET ITS CITIZENSHIPS; WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

                        

Meet AHSAN KHALIQ, the owner of SAAD AHSAN RESIDENCY & CITIZENSHIP, whose firm continues to be an authorized seller of Dominica CBI citizenship, notwithstanding that the Minister for Citizenship revoked the passports of nineteen Pakistani nationals for purchasing at an illegal discount. If you thought that was merely an oversight, think again, for Khaliq holds a Diplomatic passport issued by Dominica, which he brandishes to show prospective CBI customers how he is operating under official authority. In truth and in fact, Dominica freely allows its passport sellers to break its CBI laws and regulations, and to violate the Memorandum of Agreement, to which it is a signatory. When it comes to Dominica CBI, anything goes.

For readers who wish to actually see the relevant portions of CITIZENSHIP DEPRIVATION ORDER 2024:

Perhaps Dominica's Prime Minister ROOSEVELT SKERRIT might wish to explain to the new regulatory body, the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority (ECCIRA), why it has failed to adhere to the international agreement he signed, and which binds Dominica, as it does the other four EC CBI & CIP selling states. No wonder the United States so distrusts Dominica's CBI program that it has essentially suspended the ability of Dominica passport holders to secure visas to visit America.

WILL ANY OF THE DEPOSITORS WHO HAD FUNDS IN NEVIS' HAMILTON BANK RECOVER THEIR MONEY?

We are advised that some of the litigation filed by depositors at HAMILTON RESERVE BANK could result in final judgments on or about September 15. Some of the plaintiffs, who allege that they have not been able to withdraw any of their funds from the bank, have also sued the local regulatory agency, the FSRC, the Nevisian Minister of Finance, who is currently the Premier, and the Attorney General.

The question becomes, who will recover their funds, and who might be unsuccessful? The allegations of failure to supervise the bank, on the part of the regulator and the minister, add an additional unknown to the possible outcome. Will the Government of Saint Kitts & Nevis, seeking to avoid the international damage which might emerge from any proof of negligent supervision, pay off some of the claimants, leaving others with only an uncollectible judgment? or will the Premier himself step in, and see if some, but not all, of the alleged victims are paid, either from bank assets or even government funds, to save his political career? Right now, there are far too many unknowns to be able to answer that question.

We will continue to monitor the litigation, and update our readers accordingly. New readers might want to review our prior coverage of the litigation.

VISA RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED LAST DECEMBER UPON ANTIGUA WAS THE DIRECT RESULT OF A ROGUE CIP PROGRAM; DO NOT LET THE ABLP PROPAGANDA MILL DECEIVE YOU IN THINKING IT WAS BECAUSE OF ANTIGUA'S DEPORTATION REFUSAL

If you have actually read the official United States ruling imposing major restrictions upon the ability of Antiguans to obtain a visa to enter the United States, you know that the sole reasons are directly connected to the country's Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport program. Public statements made this week, by Antigua's Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE, claiming that the reason was his failure to accept third country deportees, is untrue, and made for purely political purposes to confuse Antiguans, and divert them from the painful truth. We consider this to be misleading propaganda specifically designed to deceive them.

The Presidential Policy Statement, which is enforced by the Department of State, as the visa issuing authority, specifically states that the Antiguan government's deficiencies in screening and vetting applicants, is the true reason for the sanctions. the ability of inadequately screened, or even unscreened, applicants constitutes a direct National Security risk to the united States. Many individuals from high risk countries, and even jurisdictions designated State Sponsor of Terrorism, have received Antigua CIP passports, which allow them to apply to enter America, greatly increasing the risk that they will engage in white collar crime, money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing and terrorist acts against the United States.

Therefore, Antiguans must understand, and accept as fact, that, so long as Antigua maintains and operates a flawed and defective CIP program, the visa sanctions imposed by President Trump og December 15, 2025 will not only remain in place, they may be modified or even increased. Unfortunately, we do not see the Government of Antigua taking any substantive action to clean up and reform the CIP program, so do not plan any visits to the United States for the foreseeable future. Clean up your program, or accept the current situation for the indefinite future.

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THE ANATOMY OF DENIAL: ANALYZING THE "FACILITATOR'S PLAYBOOK" PART 2

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The concept behind the network is simple: a team of former Homeland Security agents, former CIA officers, former DEA agents, former FBI personnel, and former members of the U.S. military investigate major issues and report the news through a series of podcasts and investigative programs.

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Proud American Studios has already conducted interviews with several senior officials in the Trump administration, including Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Tom Homan, Sebastian Gorka, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The network has a clear editorial focus. In addition to covering national politics, it seeks to expose what it describes as hostile foreign influence directed against the United States, particularly from China, as well as Marxist propaganda throughout the Western Hemisphere. These issues are examined in The Western Hemisphere, hosted by former U.N. Ambassador Ian 'Patches' Liburd.

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Following its rapid growth, Proud American Studios is preparing a series of major investigative documentaries focusing on drug trafficking networks operating in the United States and throughout the Caribbean, along with other issues affecting U.S. national security.

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READ DOMINICA'S CBI GUIDELINES THAT IT REFUSES TO ENFORCE, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT THAT IT SIGNED

 

Here it is, plain as day, Dominica's CBI regulations for its sales agents, who received formal notification back in 2019 that they violate them upon pain of "AUTOMATIC BLACKLISTING." If you wanted to know why the Commonwealth of Dominica is completely ignoring the agents who break its laws, the termination of UK visa-free admission, more than two years ago made Dominica CBI less competitive than its SKN and SLU neighbors, so with a wink and a nod, Prime Minister ROOSEVELT SKERRIT signaled to its salesmen abroad that anything goes. Hence the almost universal use of deep discounting, uop to 60%, to sell Dominica CBI ahead of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia, passports.

Read this document carefully; you will see that there are a half dozen other legal requirements that agents abroad are consistently failing to abide by, yet they are still selling Dominica. When will this end?

WILL A FUTURE DOMINICA GOVERNMENT REVOKE ALL THOSE ILLEGALLY DISCOUNTED PASSPORTS?

What I am seeing, and my sources confirming, is that these three PAKISTAN-based CBI consultancies are selling DOMINICA citizenships at deep discounts from the legal minimums:

SAAD AHSAN IMMGRATION
FORECAST IMMIGRATION
MW IMMIGRATION

If and when there is regime change in the Commonwealth of Dominica, which could come, due to (1) the visa sanctions imposed by the USA (2) The two-year old termination of visa free status by the UK, and (3) ETIAS somtime this Fall to the EU, will the next Dominica government rule that these heavily discounted passports are void Ab Initio? That is precisely what I would do, notwithstanding that a prior government had accepted them. What will happen in Dominica?

THE ANATOMY OF DENIAL; ANALYZING THE FACILITATOR'S PLAYBOOK

"The interactions with Momil Khan and Neda Azarmehr are textbook examples of what I term 'The Facilitator's Denial.'

In my latest investigation into the systemic rot within certain CBI circles, I have encountered two distinct responses that perfectly illustrate the 'Facilitator’s Playbook.' When exposed, the actors behind these schemes rely on two primary tactics: Rebranding and Strategic Disengagement.

The Case of Momil Khan: Rebranding a Violation

When confronted with documented evidence of illegal discounts—a direct violation of the 2024 Memorandum of Agreement (MoA)—Momil Khan’s instinct was to label the act an 'overly ambitious marketing approach.' This is a classic attempt to sanitize a legal transgression. Selling a nation’s sovereignty at a deep discount is not 'marketing'; it is a systemic attack on the integrity of the program.

The Case of Neda Azarmehr: The 'Service Provider' Shield

Neda Azarmehr’s defense is even more revealing. She claims her involvement in the Grenada project was 'strictly limited to promotional and documentation support.' In the world of international financial crime, this is the standard defense of the facilitator. Facilitators rarely hold shares or decision-making power; instead, their role is to provide the veneer of legitimacy through marketing and documentation that allows fraudulent schemes to attract victims. 

Her admission that she 'severed all involvement' only after 'concerns arose' raises a critical question: What were those concerns, and why were they not identified during professional due diligence before the 'promotional support' began? To claim to be a mere 'service provider' while the machinery of a project is being questioned is an attempt to enjoy the profits of promoting illegal discounts and prices without the burden of accountability.

The Common Thread: Accountability vs. Ignorance*

Both Khan and Azarmehr attempt to hide behind professional terminology—'marketing oversight' or 'documentation support'—to evade the ethical responsibility of their roles. They want us to believe they are passive bystanders in a system they actively promoted.

Public accountability does not require a shareholder certificate; it requires an analysis of who provided the engine for these schemes. 

The evidence—the illegal price lists, the promotional campaigns, and the records of involvement—will remain *until the very day justice arrives. These are not 'false allegations'; they are the public record of a culture of impunity. 

Facilitators who operate in the shadows of legality must understand: promoting illegal discount prices is not a marketing error; it is a systemic attack on the integrity of CBI programs. By engaging in this predatory price war, facilitators like Momil Khan, Neda Azarmehr, and others are not just 'selling passports'—they are laundering the process and endangering the travel freedoms of every legitimate citizen of these nations."

Read also: https://rijock.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-untouchable-facilitators-why-rcbi.html?m=1