WHAT WILL ANTIGUA DO WHEN THE CIP GRAVY TRAIN RUNS DRY? LAUNDER DRUG PROFITS AGAIN, LIKE IT DID FOR ALEX SAAB MORAN AND NICOLAS MADURO MOROS?

Although Antigua's Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE, has repeatedly declared that he will not obey the European Union Directive, and terminate his country's rogue Citizenship by Investment (CIP) economic passport program, by June 2028, the EU's stated consequences for noncompliance will be severe; the total and complete loss of visa-free entry into its Member states for all Antigua passport holders, CIP or native born.. That will make Antigua CIP passports essentially un marketable, as 99% of the buyers purchase them solely to enter the EU without visa application.

So what now, Antigua & Barbuda? If both recent history is any clue, a return to the laundering of the proceeds of narcotics crime through indigenous banks is the probable choice. It wasn't so long ago that the new-indicted Colombian money launderer for the Maduro Cartel, ALEX NAIN SAAB MORAN, named Economic Envoy by Browne himself, had free reign, using the two Antigua-registered offshore banks that he controlled, a government-owned bank, and the leading private financial institution, to achieve his goals. Financial pirates, every one of them.

Antigua's dark past as a center for American drug money laundering back in the period starting around 1980 is well known to people in my age group, but those younger should know that there was a reason that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) designated it as a Non-Cooperative Country or Territory (NCCT).

Of course, the whole thing may be academic, as two major American Federal criminal prosecutions (Maduro in SDNY, Saab Moran in SDFL) and one more in preparation for filing, could result in indictment of senior Antigua government officials, and cause the premature termination, with prejudice, of the CIP program. We cannot say what the future holds for Antigua, but it is not good news for the Average Antiguan, who will undoubtedly suffer economically, as well as otherwise, as 2026 turns into 2027; Stay tuned.

WE EXAMINE DOMINICA'S ECOTOURISM FUTURE AFTER CBI

Although most media is currently focused upon the economic issues surrounding the possible 2028 termination or modification of the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program of the Commonwealth of Dominica, many Dominicans see their country's future income stream coming from ecotourism, based upon its abundant natural capital. Government programs, international NGO support, and an entrepreneurial, environmentally conscious, community-based, innovative and outward-looking private sector, all are contributing to a future broad-based prosperity. We have surveyed a number of Dominicans engaged in these promising projects and enterprises, and wish to report to our readers on the status of several which we find of important interest from an economic point of view, and which we believe will drive a new and lucrative ecotourism business to the tropical island nation. Public-private partnerships, where government facilitates future tourism, could usher in a significant increase in visitors, for come for a specific reason; the country's natural resources.

The partnership between the Sperm Whale Reserve and Project CETI; Dominica has become a globally important center for sperm whale conservation and research. The Sperm Whale Reserve gives Dominica a genuinely distinctive, and unique, conservation asset, paired with Project CETI, which  brings together artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, linguistics and marine biology, in an effort to understand and translate sperm whale communication. An important factor: CETI is developing local capacity, through marine conservation fellowships, in collaboration with Dominicans. Beyond conservation this natural asset project has the potential to attract high-value tourism.

Coral Restoration and Marine Conservation; the coral restoration work associated with Oceans Forward, Nature island Dive and Simon Walsh, are prime examples of local citizens using science and practical conservation to protect one of Dominica's most valuable natural assets. Coral nurseries, and disease response and restoration work are a direct connection between environmental stewardship, scientific knowledge and the long-term economic viability of recreational diving and marine tourism for Dominica.

Geothermal Energy; Dominica's geothermal program, where its ambitious renewable energy project, funded through a number of sources, including the World Bank and other governmental development partners, is a significant development. Those contributors assist with prescribed procurement processes, environmental snd social safeguards, reporting requirements and external scrutiny. Global attention to this unique project will place Dominica in the forefront of renewable energy, increasing potential tourist curiosity. 

These are only a few of the many attractions that Dominica offers, and which can function as the replacement for CBI income in the future, should it disappear, although I believe that it could essxily be replaced by income derived from a Residency by Investment (RBI) program, where ecotourism is the driving force. Ecotourists captivated by all that Dominica has to offer will want more than a brief visit. make irt easier for them through an RBI program.

Some call this the Alternative National Development Model; where natural capital is a productive national asset - Adding up Dominica's whales, reefs, forests, rovers, biodiversity and renewable asset as a magnet for North American, European and Asian tourist business. It is conservation treated as an economic strategy, and it will work.

 

  

SAINT KITTS CBI PASSPORT HOLDER DAN BILZARIAN, LINKED TO HIS FUGITIVE CAREER CRIMINAL FATHER'S BUSINESS, RUNS AN AMERICAN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY CAMPAIGN BASED UPON ANTI-SEMITISM, CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND PURE HATE

If you are following Florida politics this season, you know that DAN BILZARIAN, the comical macho, gun-toting former poker gambler media figure, who generally is seen in photo shoots in the company of adoring women, recently ran a failed campaign in a Republican primary, seeking a Congressional seat in Washington.

While he may be a cartoonish, oddball character to some, in truth and fact, this Saint Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment (CBI)passport holder is a virulent antisemite who spewed his oral poison, as the main part of his campaign rhetoric, into the public sphere, openly seeking the votes of young American males, by tying the Gaza War into an anti-Jewish delivery that could never be mainstream in American politics, but which insulted the intelligence of the voters; his campaign was an utter failure. His campaign was truly the personification of evil, and it deserves to be summarily thrown into the dustbin of history, feet first, and discarded even in the world of radical politics.

The troubling thing is that we do not know what he was really trying to accomplish with his hateful effort. The son of the American career criminal, fugitive from justice and former corporate raider PAUL BILZARIAN, also a Saint Kitts & Nevis economic citizenship passport holder, he has been linked to his father's latest Federal Indictment, in the Central District of California, as the alleged beneficial owner of a company which his father used, it is claimed, to evade the $180m judgment the United States holds against Paul for decades.

Was this political campaign part of a deranged plan by his father gain influence in Washington, and perhaps gain a Presidential Pardon, or something worse, and effort to export antisemitism from Saint Kitts, to create a dissenting voice in Congress, on the part of China? Longtime readers of these articles are familiar with China's powerful influence in the government of Saint Kitts & Nevis, achieved through a Chinese-controlled CBI consultancy that dominated the country's economic passport industry, which basically kept the nation's dysfunctional economy afloat by funding the government's bloated budget.

Did China orchestrate this political obscenity, as an exercise of its vaunted Soft Power efforts in the Caribbean? We cannot say, but we will be watching the Bilzarians very closely in the coming year.

FOR FURTHER READING;

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/convicted-corporate-raider-his-longtime-accountant-and-vaping-company-charged

NEW PENDING RESTRICTIONS THAT PRECLUDE EASTERN CARIBBEAN EXPAT CITIZENS FROM BRINGING THEIR SPOUSES TO THE UNITED STATES ARE BUT ONE MORE NEW RESTRICTION ON ALL FIVE CBI STATES

 

MEHUL CHOKSI'S INDIAN ATTORNEY ARRESTED IN LONDON WITH CASH; WAS THIS MONEY EARMARKED FOR TERRORIST FINANCING?

Choksi and Aggarwal 

Reports from London confirm that VIJAY AGGARWAL, known to be the principal Indian attorney for the fugitive $2bn financial fraudster MEHUL CHOKSI, has been arrested in the UK, with a large amount of cash, at his London residence. The lawyer, who was not authorized to work in the UK, has been linked to Choksi's British assets and reputed criminal network there.

Aggarwal, together with the controversial British attorney, MICHAEL POLAK, has been representing Choksi, who recently dismissed a civil suit there, against the alleged kidnappers of Choksi in Antigua, where he had used his Antiguan Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport to evade extradition to his native India for five years. Choksi is currently in custody in Belgium, awaiting his imminent extradition to India, to face multiple serious criminal charges. A major issue surrounding Aggarwal is whether he is involved in providing financial support to a number of separatist organizations in India that have been designated as terrorist entities, meaning we are talking about allegations of terrorist financing, using Choksi's assets, to create political chaos within India. Is he looking to create a situation where he can make a deal with Indian authorities, in exchange for his cessation of providing financial support to terrorism?

We are continuing to follow this unfolding story, and will report back to our readers as more details emerge.

HAS THE APPROACHING TRIAL DATE OF MONEY LAUNDERER ALEX SAAB MORAN RATTLED ANTIGUA'S LEADER?

For those readers who are not aware of the fast-tracked progress of the latest Federal criminal case pending against the Colombian money launderer (and close associate of former Venezuelan President NICOLAS MADURO MOROS) ALEX SAAB MORAN, it is presently scheduled to go to trial in U.S. District Court in Miami, Florida on NOVEMBER 16, 2026. Saab is accused, this time, of being a money launderer engaged in an international financial conspiracy involving the concealment of millions of dollars tied to the Venezuelan government food import project known as CLAP, and oil reversal schemes that resulted in the illicit diversion of an obscene amount of money abroad for his clients. He was removed from Venezuela earlier this year, after the country's current president removed him from a major Cabinet position and turned him over to U.S. law enforcement, who took him into custody.

Contrast and compare Saab's situation with the 2027 trial date of Maduro in Manhattan, and one might now understand the pointedly erratic behavior of late of the sitting Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, GASTON BROWNE, whose conduct recently has been the subject of widespread attention. It bears mentioning that Saab, formerly Browne's designated Economic Envoy, is alleged to have engaged in major money laundering activities within Antigua's financial system, on behalf of his Venezuelan clients in Maduro's narcotics trafficking cartel; he controlled two Antigua offshore banks, and conducted a substantial amount of illegal money movement through two of the country's principal local banks, one of which was government-owned and controlled.

Given that Saab has a long and sordid history of cooperating with American law enforcement, to keep himself from the consequences of his use of the American financial structure to move and clean narcotics profits, and the proceeds of other criminal activity, legal observers in Miami believe that, as his trial date approaches, Saab will provide Substantial Assistance to the Department of Justice, to reduce the possibility that he spends the rest of his life in an American prison, and that such cooperation will implicate Browne, as well as several other senior government officials who worked with him in his laundering activities in Antigua. 

Since details of any such assistance will be sealed, so long as Browne and other Antiguan targets remain outside the custody of American law enforcement agencies, we will not be privy to such information, and will only learn of its existence after he has been arrested. Whether this will occur under the same circumstances as Maduro's removal from Caracas, we cannot say, but the threat of this occurring would explain Browne's strange conduct in recent weeks. Does he fear the proverbial knock on the door in the middle of the night by an American special operations team? We cannot say, but we will be watching.

CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAMS AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH

"We who Labor here seek only the Truth, " is posted behind the judicial bench in many of the courtrooms here in Miami-Dade County, and it came to mind when my recent article, covering a number of the infrastructure projects completed with Citizenship by Investment (CBI) funding, created a firestorm of controversy, from readers who wondered whether I had abandoned my two decade opposition to the money laundering, fraud and corruption that has long been associated with the administration of such programs in the five Eastern Caribbean states that have offer Economic Citizenship; That is simply not true.

To be blunt, my sometimes scathing exposure of financial crime in CBI programs will continue, but as I am a proponent of also complete disclosure of the truth, even when it might meet with disapproval in some quarterers, I chose to name the CBI projects in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Please do not ignore those achievements because the administrators of the program have allegedly been linked to corruption and financial crime. The statements appearing in the pro-investment migration press, to the effect that I am supporting those leaders, is not correct. In truth and in fact, I continue to be an advocate for a replacement of the corrupt Dominica Labour Party, as the achievements I have detailed have been accomplished despite the party's illegal diversion of CBI revenue, and other financial crimes, which is another truth.

Also, Dominica frankly sits alone as the Caribbean CBI state with a substantial number of completed projects; I have found that Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda have few concrete results to show for all the millions of US Dollars that have found their way into government accounts; do not lump me into the category of those who are cheerleaders for those programs, which I have condemned, and will continue to call out as having failed in their obligations to fulfill the stated original program goals.

Given that the European Union policy on shutting the door to CBI in 2028, if there is a chance for the benefits of the Dominica program to continue, perhaps a transition to Residency by Investment (RBI) program could allow infrastructure projects to continue. As the EU allows RBI among its Member states, it might be the solution to the region's problem, regarding a substitute for much-needed government revenue. Whether this will come to pass, we cannot say, but the people of the Eastern Caribbean states must have financial security, and we trust that it can be found, in the short term. There can be no debate over whether that statement is absolutely true.

MEHUL CHOKSI'S UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SUIT AGAINST THE ALLEGED KIDNAPPING CREW, DISMISSED

 

If you were wondering what became of that civil suit that the fugitive diamond fraudster MEHUL CHOKSI, filed in the United Kingdom in 2024, against the Government of India and the crew that Choksi alleged was involved in his failed kidnapping from Antigua, it has been dismissed by agreement of the parties. You may re all that the Court ordered that the Claimant, a non-resident, to comply with an order requiring him to remit to the Court a substantial cost deposit, which we reported here:  WILL CHOKSKI'S UK CIVIL SUIT AGAINST INDIA BE DISMISSED FOR HIS FAILURE TO TIMELY PAY THE £677,000 COST DEPOSIT?  According to the text of the stipulated Consent, which is the grounds for the Dismissal, he failed to pay that sum into the Court Registry. The Order appears above.

Choksi, having failed in his opposition to extradition from Belgium, where he was detained on the authority of a warrant issued by the Government of India, is awaiting removal to his native country for trial. Choksi has been charged with obtaining the equivalent of USD$2bn in bank loans through fraud, and other crimes and offenses. His flight to Antigua, where he had secured a CIP passport notwithstanding being under criminal investigation, exposed the bogus nature of the country's Due Diligence investigation process. The scandal was made worse when Choksi, with obvious Antiguan government collusion, was able to evade extradition for several years, using the country's corrupt court system to delay matters indefinitely.

We are looking forward to seeing that justice will finally be done in the Choksi case, after an extensive delay which he created, in a futile effort to avoid justice in the courts of India. 

INVESTMENT MIGRATION-FINANCED PRESS PLANS TO SHOOT THE MESSENGER (GREGOR NASSIEF) WHO PUBLICLY EXPOSED DOMINICA'S CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL CBI PASSPORT SALES PROGRAM

If you have been following the news, regarding the public disclosures made by the prominent Dominican hotelier Gregor Nassief, then you know he sent fourteen letters to Dominica's Prime Minister, ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, demanding reform of the country's rogue CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT (CBI) program. That news has sparked a firestorm of very public controversy over his detailed analysis of the systemic corruption, mismanagement and dangers of not only Dominica's program, but the international threats which all five Caribbean CBI & CIP passport sales programs pose, as all have succumbed to corruption, fraud and money laundering, which impact the global financial structure, and the national security of a number of Western democracies.

Our sources have confirmed that the major CBI passport sales consultancies who covertly fund and finance online news services, whose goal is to disseminate pro-CBI infomercials, as well as blatant disinformation and propaganda from outside the Caribbean, have all sent to Mr. Nassief extensive correspondence, in identical multi-page letters, requesting comments on unsubstantiated allegations of corrupt practices and sexual harassment at his hotel establishments. These captive media reportedly plan to publish an " expose" of his businesses and personal life, which is the character assassination method, known as "Shoot the messenger," which they generally engage in when there is any exposure of corrupt and illegal practices of CBI. 

We will be closely following these efforts of these propaganda media services to disparage the one individual who, after more than a dozen private efforts to force Dominica to clean up it CBI program, went public with all of Dominica's dirty CBI laundry. Individuals who trust media to obtain honest assessments of the virtues and abilities of economic passports are subject to mass media misstatements of material facts about CBI, especially the negative issues purchasers could face in the uncertain future of second passports' ability to enjoy visa-free entry to jurisdictions denied to citizens of many countries in the developing world, or nations judged to be high-risk. Learn which media whose rosy pictures of passports' attributes to ignore, and who is behind a well-orchestrated program to deceive CBI consumers. 

WILL THE EUROPEAN UNION NOW TERMINATE VISA-FREE ACCESS FOR DOMINICA FORTHWITH, AS THE CBI STATE CONTINUES TO ALLOW ILLEGAL DISCOUNTS?

SAINT LUCIA AND DOMINICA CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL DISCOUNTING OF PASSPORT SALES; BLUMINA IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH THEM

For all those in the investment migration industry who are busy assuring their new clients that the new Caribbean regulatory agency, which is intended to supervise the five Eastern Caribbean CBI and CIP states, is working, we note that a few months ago, those five countries held the CARIBBEAN INVESTMENT SUMMIT 2026, in Saint Lucia, between May 6th and May 9th. The esteemed Guest of Honor was the CEO of Amman, Jordan based BLUMINA CITIZENSHIP AND RESIDENCY, BASHAR AL DAOUD. We know this because Daoud posted photograph oF the event on his SOCIAL MEDIA, showing him next to Prime Minister PHILIP J. PIERRE, and several other senior Caribbean government leaders.

As most professionals in the economic passport sales business know, Bluemina is known as essentially the founding father and originator of the illegal deep discounting practice on the pricing of second passports from the Caribbean; he also serves as the designated Marketing Agent for Saint Lucia's CIP program. Saint Lucia, together with the Commonwealth of Dominica, are engaged in the illicit dumping of discounted of passports, fast-tracking their applications as rapidly as their CIU staff can approve them, as they desperately seek to maximize revenue, ahead of the ordered June 2028 EU-ordered termination of all Caribbean second passport programs.

All these fancy international industry programs, the purpose of which is to present what have been referred to as Silver Bullet Solutions to prospective purchasers, are little more than shiny misrepresentations of the truth, offering buyers something with absolutely no substance in an industry with a dark future, whose customers will be acquiring an "asset" with a probable expiration date, subject to revocation by a successor government or court, and having no substance. In essence, they are selling iceboxes to eskimos, at illegal prices.  How can any consumer have any faith in anything these people do? 

TERRENCE CROSSMAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SAINT KITTS-NEVIS-ANGUILLA NATIONAL BANK, TERMINATED FOR MISCONDUCT

Our sources in Saint Kitts and Nevis have reported that TERRENCE CROSSMAN, the Managing Director and First Vice Chair of SAINT KITTS-NEVIS-ANGUILLA NATIONAL BANK, has been terminated, with prejudice, for misconduct. Crossman has been accused of overcharging the bank in its purchases from a company in the United States which he controlled, which the bank learned after conducting an internal investigation.

Crossman, appointed by the Labour Party government of Prime Minister TERRANCE DREW, and who earned EC $90,000 a month as MD, as part of a two year contract for EC$2m, at first had the balance forfeited, but later, due to political pressure, was paid the remainder owed on the EC$2m contract . It has been rumoured that, due to his involvement in payments from in the CBI, the bank feared he might make incriminating statements, such as have been made by former Saint Kitts CIU CEO LES KHAN. He was formerly the Chief Executive officer of the country's Sugar Investment Diversification Foundation (SIDF), where he was also terminated, in 2016, following an internal investigation conducted there into the foundation's finances.The SIDF would not disclose the reason he was cashiered.

This is just one more incident in Saint Kitts and Nevis, which the government has tried to keep quiet, but which has exploded into a public scandal.

THE ILLEGALLY DISCOUNTED DOMINICA CBI PASSPORTS FOR OPEN SALE AT RICHKEY CAPITAL; THE UNREGULATED CHARADE MARCHES ON

In the UAE, the hits just keep on coming. RICHKEY CAPITAL is offering them at $89,000, and warning their prospective clients that the price will soon do up $21,000, unless they buy IMMEDIATELY, in a classic take on marketing arrogance. The Government of Dominica apparently does not care who breaks their laws, since CBI fund the construction of their new international airport, and patyments are slow coming in. Should the country's Prime Minister ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, who allows this illicit madness, be cashiered? You be the judge, but no banker will be accepting Dominica passports as proof of identity, if he or she has any sense. These passports could end up revoked, which won't stop the holders from using them as identification.

HOW WILL U.S. PROPOSAL OF $100,000 VISA FEE FOR POST-UNIVERSITY FOREIGN STUDENTS TO WORK IN AMERICA AFFECT EXISTING CARIBBEAN STUDENTS?

While ANTIGUA and BARBUDA and DOMINICA must now live with the reality of visa restrictions that, in essence, prohibit most of their students from attending American colleges and universities, now President Donald Trump has added another obstacle to the mix: he plans to impose a USD$100,000 payment upon foreign students who are graduates of American colleges, who wish to remain in the United States, to work for three years, under an existing program.

This means that 99% of the recent and new Antiguan & Dominican college graduates will not be able to stay on an accept employment, as the astronomical cost will make their participation impossible. Even if a foreign student somehow get that precious student visa to attend an American college, he or she will have no chance to stay on after graduation, to enter into gainful employment.

They will have to return home, which to Caribbean students who come from one of the five CBI passport-issuing states, which will be terminating their programs in 2028, causing a large number of individuals in government jobs to be furloughed, for lack of funding, and those experienced jobseekers will have an advantage over the new graduates. They will most likely be either underemployed, or even unemployed, as the result.

Bad economic news seems to continue for Antiguans and Dominicans, everywhere that they turn, all relating back to their longtime choice to keep corrupt CBI programs, which have incurred the wrath of the current American government, in place for far too long. The people are now reaping the whirlwind of their decision to retain in office leaders who failed to heed the warning signs from America, the UK and the EU.

THE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE TO PHYSICALLY STOP MONEY LAUNDERERS AND FRAUDSTERS FROM USING THE FACILITIES OF A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION

Which one is the money launderer entering your bank?

As a former career money launderer (10 years experience), I know how easy it is, with the right credentials, for anyone to enter a financial institution, to move money, commit a fraudulent act, or even provide financial assistance to a terrorist organization America's success rate with stopping such criminal acts, in real time, is abysmal, looking at the statistics.

If you are following the most recent developments in the use of next generation facial recognition software, you know that it is becoming more common for certain types of establishments, that serve the general public, to employ closed circuit cameras connected to such platforms, to be able to identify and target specific persons, so that such individuals can be either banned, removed, or closely monitored, to ascertain whether they pose a distinct threat to the premises, its staff, its operations, or could be collecting intelligence or information deemed to be possible existential or commercial threat.

Now take that existing solution, and apply it to financial institutions open to the general public. Could commercial banks use facial recognition software to identify potential financial crime threat actors, as they enter the premises, and therefore reduce the risk that they succeed at the tellers' windows, or with the account representatives, through the use of an alert system, advising staff that a dangerous individual was indeed inside the bank? I know you might consider there to be both privacy concerns, accuracy concerns, and even due process issues, but remember this: the law does not require that banks must offer their services to all persons, without exception. Banks can, and often do, deny services on a risk management basis.

As to what must be in that unique facial recognition platform, which will give a specific bank's security team the ability to know who the bad actors are, especially those who have never been convicted of a crime, I have a specific answer to that question, which I learned from my laundryman days, but disclosing it here in a public sphere, would give away the edger which banks need to stop financial crime in real time, in its tracks. They are the methods money launderers use to keep from getting caught in the first place. If you are a bold risk management professional who is not afraid to travel new roads, reach put to me, and we can have that conversation. I can be found at: miamicompliance@gmail.com