DOMINICA FINDS A BACKDOOR INTO CONTINUING TO SELL RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS CBI PASSPORTS THROUGH TURKEY

If you were paying attention this week you may have seen that the Foreign Minister of Turkey, in a public announcement that was ignored by western media, announced that his country welcomed any and all Russian Oligarchs, including those that have been sanctioned by the EU, US and Canada. He actually invited them to move their obscenely large yachts to Turkey, as it is outside the jurisdiction of the European Union, where sanctions supporting their seizure and forfeiture threaten them.

Why is this important, you ask ? Because at the same time, the leaders of the Commonwealth of Dominica have literally gotten into bed with a major Turkish company that sells its Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passports, met with the company's ownership, and reportedly even visited the company inside Turkey. to further consolidate the relationship.  That is Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, with the Mellat Turkey leaders, on the company's Twitter webpage. It doesn't get much closer than that. 

Here is there situation:

 (1) Turkey opens the door wide for sanctioned Russian Oligarchs, seeking their wealth, notwithstanding that they are international pariah, due to their financial support for Vladimir Putin.

(2) Dominica embraces a leading Turkish CBI passport sales company, and meet with its leadership, abroad.

(3) Dominica, which has a long and sordid history of welcoming Russian Oligarchs, and taking 

their Dollars, to sell them the prized passports, which give visa-free access to Europe, stands ready to quietly accept new Russian business (at higher rates, of course, due to the world's condemnation of Oligarchs).

(4) Russians, with aliases, and with their place of birth changed on the CBI passports they buy from Dominica, anonymously enter Europe, with their wealth intact, defeating both the letter of the sanctions law, and the world's efforts to rein them in.

 

Given the Dominica, reeling politically from the exposure of its recent live affair with Syria, and sale of CBI passports to that terrorist state which supports Russia, has no moral compass, and will sell to just about anybody with USD cash, can one reach any other conclusion ? Perhaps its time for the Western democracies to take a stand against this madness, and teach Dominica something about international responsibility.