Rumors that the new airline service between Antigua and West Africa on Antigua Airways is being used by money launderers to bulk cash smuggle narcotics profits into Caribbean tax havens continue to fly around St. John's, the two island nation's capital. The airline, a joint venture between the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and a Nigerian company, and which offers flights to Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria, is known to be carrying purchasers of Antiguan Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports, but arriving passengers at VC Bird International Airport who hold other passports may avail themselves of a convenient visa-on-arrival scheme.
According to reliable sources in Antigua, the bulk cash smuggling operation is under criminal investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) office in Atlanta, and there appears to be a connection to Nigerian nationals involved in the 2019 $20m money laundering and bank fraud Indictment there, known as the Air Peace case, for the Nigerian airline of the same name.
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