CRUCIAL EVIDENCE OF FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING IN SAINT LUCIA'S CIP PROGRAM SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE NEXT WEEK

Readers who have been following the unfolding developments in the Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport sales scandal, can take advantage of advance warning that crucial damaging evidence of fraud and money laundering in that program is scheduled to be disclosed next week on DBS Saint Lucia Television, during Lissa Joseph's upcoming weekly interview program..That evidence is also scheduled to be delivered to the European Union and the United States Treasury. Damning incriminating information, implicating CIU head McClaude Emmanuel, Deputy PM Ernest Hilaire, and Prime Minister Philip Pierre, is to be presented at her interview program. A senior government minister has contributed and provided significant information about the PM, DPM Hilaire and CIU leader Emmanuel. We note that CIU insiders also provided information about the misconduct of these named senior SLC government leaders.

 A substantial amount of this important information will corroborate the fact that McClaude, Hilaire and even Prime Minister Pierre, had full knowledge of, and participated in, the fraudulent conduct wherein illegally-discounted citizenships were offered, sold, processed and issued, complete with passports.

PM Pierre openly admitted that he will continue to support both Caribbean Galaxy and Bemax, and stated that he intends to protect the actions of Deputy PM Hilaire, who leads the CIU, and allows the agency to process and approve the illegal applications. He has full knowledge of the situation. The Prime Minister is saying that so long at the Government gets government fees, he will ignore the fact that Galaxy is receiving passport sales funds outside the country, effectively breaking the requirements of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) that he signed. So long as the Government gets its $20,000 fee, he ignores the fact that Galaxy sells under the legal price of $200,000, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement, with the other Caribbean nations. The senior minister who has supplied substantial information, and who has confirmed that the PM tacitly supports the illegal passport sales operation,  has stated that he is shocked by his conduct; the Cabinet is reportedly seeking to learn his identity.

 The Prime Minister has a sworn fiduciary duty to his constituents. His refusal to protect the integrity of the banking system will be fully exposed next week. A senior minister has confirmed that the general policy of the Pierre Administration is to get cash quickly, and that it doesn't matter if the CIP program, crashes later. The release of this evidence will create a shakeup in the country's financial system next weekend, including in the Cabinet, and at the Bank of Saint Lucia,  eventually crashing the CIP and exposing the role of the bank in the Chinese money laundering scandal. BOSL's correspondent bank, TD Bank, was recently sanctioned and heavily fined by regulators

A final note: today on Spin News, Rick Wayne, Saint Lucia's most prominent journalist,  warned that he already had access to key information that will have a devastating effect, when released next week. 

WILL NEW EUROPEAN BORDER POLICE NOW SNARE CHINESE MONEY LAUNDERERS HOLDING ST. KITTS & ST. LUCIA CBI PASSPORTS, TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT?

Several EU members states have hurriedly instituted internal border checks at their national frontiers this year, with their adjacent Schengen Zone neighbors, due primarily to domestic political pressure.They are seeking to control illegal immigration, the arrival of Islamic terrorists, transnational organized crime, increased risks due to wars in the Ukraine and the Middle East, and other emerging threats to domestic stability. Temporary measures are authorized, for national security reasons, as exceptions to the Schengen Agreement. Germany and seven other Schengen signatories are currently operating border controls.

Given that a significant number of arrests have been made, in the United States and elsewhere, of Chinese money launderers, financial criminals, and suspected intelligence agents and industrial spies, all holding Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports issued by East Caribbean states, especially Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Lucia, sold at illegal discounts by two Chinese companies, you must assume that a number of these career criminals have used these identity documents to enter the EU, visa-free, and are currently working inside Europe.

When they cross national borders within the Schengen Zone, they will now find themselves subject to border checks, Remember, many of them are not fluent in English, which will raise suspicions among the border police. What about that load of dirty cash or suspicious financial instruments concealed in their automobile? If they are barred from entry, border guards noting that they have just been refused admission next door, and are being returned, may choose to detain them and their transport. You can venture a guess about what will eventually happen.

Whether the Schengen Agreement is itself in jeopardy in the Europe has been a matter of debate in recent months. Should it be abolished, Money laundering through the smuggling of bulk cash or financial instruments will become more difficult, as well as dangerous, as I can testify to from personal experience during the pre-Schengen period, but that's a discussion to be had if and only if Europe decides to turn turn the clock back, for national security reasons. Right now, I am looking to see just how many Chinese money launderers are caught in the act, at some obscure border, where they least expected it to happen.

THE EUROPEAN UNION CONSIDERS TERMINATING VISA-FREE SCHENGEN ACCESS FOR ALL FIVE EAST CARIBBEAN CBI/CIP STATES, AFTER SEEING REPEATED CHINA MONEY LAUNDERING SCANDALS IN 2024

Regulators in the United States may be pointedly ignoring the money laundering, fraud and corruption scandals publicly exposed by the filing of the MSR Media RICO case in Federal Court in Florida, but across the Pond, in the European Union, they are not only paying close attention, but they are actively pondering whether to terminate the visa-free access to the Schengen Zone currently enjoyed by St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia and Grenada, all of which offer Citizenship by Investment programs. 

We have observed a significant expansion of the EU's monitoring of the unfolding CBI/CIP scandal, which originated in St. Kitts and St. Lucia, and has now further spread to Dominica and the remaining EC states, involving the illegally-discounted sale of passports by two Chinese companies, the CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP and HENG SHENG DEVELOPMENT, and the diversion of billions of dollars from CBI sales to Mainland China, funds which by law were required to be delivered to the treasuries of the countries sponsoring the passport sales program. An additional scandal, involving an Eastern European criminal enterprise known as BEMAX, linked to Saint Lucia, has caused further concern bordering on alarm.  

Readers who are following the EU's present court action, seeking to cancel the CBI program of the sole remaining Member state that has such a program, Malta, know that the European Commission position is that applicants for passport sales programs must have a direct connection to their adopted jurisdiction, and they cannot represent a national security threat to the EU. The thousands of sales of Chinese nationals, who neither speak English, nor ever settle or even visit their new Caribbean home. Add to the problem the number of Chinese CBI passport holders found to have been engaged in global criminal activity, it is not difficult to understand the growing EU concerns, and the likely response. Those concerns have been confirmed by multiple reliable sources in Europe.

The complete lack of any significant corrective action by either Saint Kitts or Saint Lucia governments, to respond to an out-of-control situation through reform, which is contributing to the problem, may very well have hastened an EU decision to end Schengen access to those EC passport-selling states, such as the UK did last year for Dominica. Many observers believe that there will be a decision by the European Union sooner, rather than later; we will be watching.

WILL MALTA'S TERRORIST FINANCING OF HAMAS THROUGH BITCOIN NOW BE EXPOSED, AND WILL THERE BE ARRESTS IN VALLETTA?

If you are a regular reader of my articles, you may recall my 2021 article,MALTA'S MONEY LAUNDERING PILATUS BANK WAS SENDING BITCOIN TO HAMAS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, in which I discussed an organized terrorist financing operation, after Hamas publicly solicited Bitcoin, after traditional avenues for funding were blocked. Although there has been little information released by the Israel Defense Forces, we know it has seized a huge amount of Hamas' financial records.

The question becomes whether sufficient details regarding the reportedly massive amounts of cyber currency transferred from Malta to Hamas will become public knowledge after the Gaza War ends, and whether Maltese prosecutors have the political will to charge the bad actors involved? While we have regrettably accepted that the directors of Pilatus Bank will never be charged with money laundering, is their terrorist financing activity so damn egregious that Malta's current Attorney General (or the next one) has no choice but to indict? This will provide a golden opportunity for the EU to see whether the Republic of Malta actually follows the Rule of Law, or is merely a criminal organization, masquerading as a Member state of the EU.

Here is the original 2021 article mentioned above:

The Attorney General: The current Malta Attorney General is Dr Victoria Buttigieg B.A.,

HOW QATAR FINANCED HAMAS, WITH THE ABLE ASSISTANCE OF AMERICAN BANKS

As a compliance officer who has been dedicated to countering the financing of terrorism since before 9/11, it turns my stomach, every time I see a photograph of a Palestinian in Gaza brandishing a new US One Hundred Dollar Note.

First, because I know that it was the Palestinians in Gaza who voted Hamas into power a known (and OFAC-designated) brutal terrorist organization nearly twenty years ago, hoping that it would be less corrupt than the Palestinian Authority. Not only did they get something even worse than the PA, they now have a completely devastated territory, which will take decades to rebuild. Who will pay for that?

Second, I know that the currency of the realm in the Territories, since they are not a state and don't issue their own, is the New Israeli Shekel (NIS), so why on earth did the State of Qatar choose to pay them aid money in USD? Qatari authorities knew that the Gazan would have to change the greenbacks into currency that they could use on the street, and Hamas, which had the money service business monopoly would exact an obscenely high fee to change the hundred dollar bills into Shekels. Thus Hamas was able to divert funds to build those hundreds of miles of tunnels, buy arms and ammunition, and all the other tools and implements of war. Thank you, State of Qatar, for knowingly financing the worst terrorist organization on the planet. it would easily have purchased Israeli currency on the open market for distribution. Does that make the Emir a war criminal?

Finally, the greedy American banks that supplied all those greenbacks also have their share of blame. Should we publish the names of the large US banks that sent multi-million dollar shipments of currency, when they knew that Qatar was funding Gaza "relief" with Dollars?

That's why those photographs make me angry.

LAWSUIT AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL ASSERTS MONTREAL MANAGEMENT HAS A DE FACTO MONOPOLY ON CBI CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, DUE TO ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF PRIME MINISTER ROOSEVELT SKERRIT

A civil suit filed on September 24, 2024 in the High Court of Justice of the Commonwealth of Dominica, alleges that the country's Prime Minister, ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, has corruptly and illegally placed MONTREAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS in a favorable position where it is the only approved contractor and developer of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) projects in Dominica, that it has illegally diverted funds that should have been placed into the Government's Consolidated Fund, into its private accounts, and that Montreal Management committed a number of other acts which are illegal under the laws, regulations and procedures of Dominica.

Entitled Burney Ryan, Claimant v. The Attorney General of Dominica, Respondent,* and entered as a Constitutional Claim, the prayer for Relief requests what amounts to a request for a Declaratory Judgment, where the Court makes a judicial determination and finding that what Prime Minister Skerrit did, in awarding Montreal Management, owned by ANTHONY HAIDEN, which amounts to sole exclusive rights as the only authorized developer of CBI projects in Dominica, is a violation of the statutory and Constitutional law of Dominica.

Ryan's allegations regarding the conduct and actions of  Roosevelt Skerrit are scathing; he accused the PM of blatant Conflict of Interest, in his dealing with MMC and Haiden, specifically:

"a. The Prime Minister has overseen the payment of over EC$32,000 per month as

rent for a palatial mansion allegedly owned by Anthony Haiden and widely believed

to be funded with CBI money as the official residence of the Prime Minister.

b. The Prime Minister is building a palatial mansion for himself, his second multi-

million-dollar home, with funds that have not and cannot be explained while

calls for public accountability and transparency regarding same have been largely

ignored and gone unanswered.

c. The Prime Minister claimed he received a gift of land while serving as Prime

Minister. This transfer of land was the subject of allegations of undervaluing for the

purpose of underpayment of land transfer taxes. The land was later sold for over

EC$700,000.00 to Anthony Haiden and/or his affiliate company Mercury 

Properties." (Claim at P.5)

The action is replete with multiple quotations, from public statements made by Skerrit, which are reported to be either deceptive, untrue, or promise transparency and financial disclosures that never materialized. Skerrit has, according to the filong, never satisfactorily advised his constituents exactly where Haiden and MMC are keeping the funds it collected, and allegedly illegally retained for their own use. Many of the allegations are supported by quotations taken from media interviews, newspaper articles and other sources that appear for the purposes of confirmation.

The Claim concludes:

                                                                (Claim at P.33)

Opposition Leader Linton, in a recent interview on DBSTV in Saint Lucia, charged that of the approximately ten billion EC dollars that the CBI program generated in recent years, at least seven billion never was deposited into the Consolidated Fund, as required by law, and is missing. Linton also stated that he has consulted with Philippe Martinez, of MSR Media, on the prospect of Dominicans bringing a Class Action lawsuit against the financial institutions that allowed and permitted MMC to divert funds that should have gone to Dominica, to recover damages equal to that which has been lost.

Whether this is only the first effort to use the courts in Domnica to rein in what us clearly official corruption of the highest order we cannot say, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. Dominica's CBI program has been plagued with corrupt activity for two decades, ever since the current Skerrit administration came into power. There were multiple reasons for the United Kingdom's Foreign Office removing visa-free access for Dominica CBI passport holders, and for the Bank of America blocking further deposits of CBI application payments through its correspondent accounts, but corruption was a major one. The program cannot survive without massive reform; we shall see if this litigation encourages it to proceed.

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*Case No.: DOMHCV2024-0192.      

WILL ERNEST HILAIRE PUT SAINT LUCIA ON THE BLACKLIST?

"I won't answer that question."

The latest scandal, involving his approval of an Eastern European company known to be engaged in organized crime to be a CIP-approved developer (being one in which the CEO was arrested), has focused further attention on ERNEST HILAIRE, Saint Lucia's Deputy Prime Minister, who has the portfolio for Investment. Hilaire, who has delayed for more than two months to deliver to his constituents details of the thousands of illegally-discounted sales of economic citizenships by Chinese-owned CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, and has lost favor with several influential members of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, in order to mitigate the international political and economic damage that his leadership of the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) has caused. It is interesting to note that neither Hilaire nor McClaude were permitted to explain to the press McClaude's mysterious trip to Washington, DC.

There are well-founded fears that the unfolding CIP scandal will cause the EU & UK to conclude that the Saint Lucia Government has no control over Hilaire's  activities in the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU), and that Government there will soon decide to cancel SLC's prized visa-free entry privileges to the EU & United Kingdom. Such an act will render Saint Lucia less competitive in the tough migration investment industry. Additionally, Hilaire's failure to have the CIU conduct proper due diligence on CIP applicants, and the subsequent placement of unvetted application funds through the Bank of Saint Lucia, and into the correspondent accounts of BOSL's American financial institution partners threatens De-Risking, account closures, which would devastate a local economy that is dependent access to the American banking system. From inside the CIU,whistleblowers are sharing documents with us, because they fear what he is doing. Hilaire is putting at risk all the other Citizenship by Investment programs in the region, with his conduct.

Hilaire's repeated dissembling, when asked by local media to respond to critical domestic and international issues, and his arrogance in the face of demands for truth, has alienated him from elements of senior political as well as governmental leadership, due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead Saint Lucia out of the CIP crisis, which is now under a direct threat to its continued existence. His open allegiance to the Chinese CIP stakeholders, CARIBBEAN GALAXY, and desperate efforts to cover up systemic corruption, money laundering and fraud, can only result in Saint Lucia being blacklisted by international agencies involved in Anti-money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), which will crash the tourism industry, and deter foreign investment.

Whether the country's Prime Minister, Philip Pierre, has the political will to remove him, and replace him with someone who can reform the CIP, save the correspondent banking relationships, and restore international confidence in the Government of Saint Lucia, we cannot say, but if he fails to act, expect that the fears of his Labour Party leaders for the worst will come to pass. Hilaire is taking the whole country down.

      

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF QATAR GETTING VISA-FREE ACCESS TO THE UNITED STATES

Last week's announcement, regarding the awarding of visa-free entry privileges to the United States, to passport holders from the State of Qatar, was disturbing. While I understand the political rationale for the action, one wonders whether the Secretary of State bothered to consult the Secretary of the Treasury, and the leaders of OFAC and FinCEN, before making that command decision. He may come to regret it.

I can think of a number of potential problems that this former money launderer has with Qataris evading US visa application scrutiny to enter America:

(1) HAMAS of course, which is resident there. How many Hamas terrorist financiers, intelligence agents, or even violent actors, will be able to transform themselves into a version of a Qatari national that will fool the computer programs granting visa-free access via ESTA? A computer cannot gauge whether the holder speaks the Qatari version of Arabic whe he opens his mouth.

(2) Corrupt actors gaining easy entry, in person, into the American financial structice; who has forgotten FIFA corruption, or payments made to Israeli politicians?

(3) What about enterprising Qarari fraudsters from the Middle East, who have never been arrested, locals hired by Russian and/or Chinese white collar criminal organizations, to make entry into the Continental United States?

Because of my "colorful" work experience, I do foresee problems down the road for US law enforcement, from this decision. Let us only hope that those readers of this article, who work for the FBI, DHS and Treasury, are among them on this Monday.

LATITUDE AND RIF TRUST BREAK UP; ARE THEY UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION?

Eric Major, Latitude Group CEO & Chairman

                    

For Migration Investment observers who have been puzzling over the recent separation of RIF TRUST and LATITUDE, two prominent industry players who several years ago merged their global operation, you need not wonder any longer; a confidential source from RIF leadership in Dubai, in a recent interview with myself, has disclosed that Latitude CEO ERIC MAJOR, was engaged in the action of approving, and facilitating the CARIBBEAN GALAXY scheme of illegally-discounted citizenships of Saint Kitts & Nevis, and of Saint Lucia.The same source at RIF Management advised during the interview that this was the principal reason for the breakup, as RIF's conservative management strongly disapproved of any conduct which would expose the company to any possible civil, or even criminal, liability, as a matter of long-standing company policy. Whether any of these citizenships sold with illegally-reduced pricing were purchased by individuals from banned or blocked jurisdictions may also be a major contributing factor. Clearly, RIF Trust blamed Eric Major and Latitude for the wrongdoing which occurred at the company.

Whether there will be litigation resulting from the separation, we cannot say, because we were unable to obtain confirmation that RIF TRUST has yet made a decision on whether to pursue their dispute in the courts, but given that the Prime Ministers of the Eastern Caribbean states that maintain CBI/CIP schemes have universally affirmed that they will be cancelling all illegal citizenships, it will be assumed that extensive litigation by unhappy passport holders will shortly affect RIF, which blames Major for  all the illegal transactions. This means that RIF litigation against Latitude and Major remains a strong possibility. Given that any civil litigation by and between the parties will for the most part, be publicly-available information, we will be closely following the course and progress of any such legal dispute, when it is filed. 

 Media reports claim that RIF had become a subsidiary of Latitude; although we are unfamiliar with UAE law on the subject, regarding how this will affect any litigation, we were unable to find any public announcement regarding whether court approval was requested, or obtained, for the Demerger.

Mimoun Assraoui, RIF Trust CEO

The dispute between the two entities is further complicated by the fact that the Prime Minister of Saint Kitts & Nevis has ordered the Director of Public Prosecutions, ADLAI SMITH, to open a criminal investigation into what he termed "irregularities," and directed that all the criminal investigators retained, save one, be from outside Saint Kitts, to insure that there would be no possibility of Undue Influence or Conflict of Interest. Our sources in Saint Kitts have reported that contracts for illegally-discounted amounts, from Caribbean Galaxy, originating from RIF & Latitude, are in the possession of Saint Kitts authorities. Will RIF Trust and Latitude still be in business, if their clients' citizenships are all revoked? We note that Eric Major refused to respond on our repeated written inquiries and requests for comments.We anticipate delivering further reporting on this important subject, as soon as we confirm additional information in our possession.

SAINT LUCIA IGNORES ARRESTS, CIU ALLOWS COMPANY ACCUSED OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN EASTERN EUROPE TO START CONSTRUCTION OF CIP PROJECT

Aleksander Majijlovic, bonding out after his arrest.

Philicia Pierre, who approved him for the CIP

If you read our recent article, regarding the latest disturbing disclosures about Saint Lucia CIP,

SLC PRIME MINISTER PIERRE , DEPUTY PM ERNEST HILAIRE, LAWYER THADDEUS ANTOINE, AND THE ENTIRE SAINT LUCIA CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAM ARE IN BUSINESS WITH EASTERN EUROPEAN MAFIA,  you know that a known Mafia figure, ALEKSANDER MAJIJLOVIC, recently arrested in Europe on multiple criminal charges connected to organized crime, owns BEMAX, which reportedly has a contract with the Saint Lucia CIP program, to develop a real estate project known as Rock Hall Housing Development. When questioned by SLC media, Deputy Prime Minister Hilaire claimed that he was "not aware" of Aleksander's arrest, as well as of the seizure of contraband by Montenegro law enforcement, in coordination with EUROPOL, which occurred several months ago. Hilaire completely lost credibility with that statement, as he is the minister ultimately responsible for CIP.

Obviously, at this point, Saint Lucia Government is now "Fully Aware" of the situation, but notwithstanding the public disclosures about the criminal conduct of Majijlovic and Bemax, this week, construction commenced on Rock Hall. Local press has published several images from the site, showing that preparation is now actively underway. What's wrong with this Picture? Under generally accepted CIP industry policies and standards, risk management approval would have been a firm requirement before any construction began.

The Risk Profiler for the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) PHILICIA PIERRE*, who is the daughter of Saint Lucia Prime Minister PHILIP PIERRE, and who by virtue of her position, is responsible for passing on the risk status of all contractors who partner with the SLC Infrastructure Program, and who most certainly approved of Bemax, notwithstanding the arrests and seizures, which are now public knowledge, due to media coverage, should be terminated, forthwith, for Malfeasance and Misfeasance in Office. Did she not see the news of the arrest when conducting Due Diligence? No compliance professional should ever approve project construction under this set of facts, and we call for her removal, forthwith, and that a criminal investigation into her relationship with Bemax be initiated by the Prosecutor's Office. We note that Ms. Pierre, who is known to be a United States citizen, has reportedly refused to execute the necessary declarations required under American law, regarding all bank accounts she owns and controls that exceed USD$5000, which is further indication of her possible misconduct in the discharge of her duties of office.                                                                                                                                    ____________________________________                              

*WAS IT NEPOTISM OR CORRUPTION, AT SAINT LUCIA CIP, THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF THOUSANDS OF FRAUDULENT PASSPORTS?                                

CHINA'S INFILTRATION OF THE CBI PROGRAMS IN THE EAST CARIBBEAN

The People's Republic of China's Nationality Law does not recognize dual nationality for Chinese nationals. Notwithstanding that law, the three major Citizenship by Investment passport sales companies, CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, HENG SHENG, AND GLOBEVISA, are all openly operating, not only in Hong Kong, but also in Mainland China, where they have now sold thousands of citizenships, at illegally-discounted prices. Galaxy, Heng Sheng and Globevisa all pose a clear and present danger to the countries of the Caribbean.  Given that the PRC maintain strict controls over all aspects of industry and commerce, these massive sales programs must have had official approval to be allowed to operate throughout China. Why would China allow such activities, when they violate its existing law? 

SN Foreign Minister Denzil Douglas and Galaxy CEO Ying Jim at the UN. 

While we have been concentrating upon the illegality of passport sales, in our prior articles, it is perhaps even more important to understand that a large bigger, more strategic picture has emerged. The former Saint Kitts & Nevis Minister, Dwyer Astaphan, in a recent podcast, raised strong concerns about the right to Vote of CBI citizens, and the potential political power that these new Chinese citizens will have in their country. Due to provisions in the CBI laws, which are intended to facilitate the admission of the maximum number of members of the original applicant's extended family to citizenship, including those who qualify in the future, and the children of all who have formerly been admitted, a bad actor bent on substantially increasing the number of individuals who became citizens, directly from the initial applicant, can achieve a very large number. This loophole, although obviously well-intentioned could result in massive amount of new citizens, in a sufficient amount as to control elections, and therefore government.

St. Lucia CIP head McClaude Emmanuel and Les Khan

One very ominous aspect that Mr. Astaphan brought up, was the fact that children of CBI citizens, once grown to adulthood, would qualify election for high Government office, including his country's Parliament. The fear is that such a new administration might not only favor China over the Western democracies, and be loyal to its policies, but that it might implement the restrictive type of government that China now maintains regarding its own citizens, who must adhere to strict social norms; Western human and civil rights might disappear in countries of the Caribbean under Chinese control. Other changes could also occur, such as siding with the PRC and withdrawing their diplomatic recognition of Taiwan, making China their dominant trading partner, and favoring China and the world's other autocracies in foreign relations and at the United Nations. The Balance of Power in the Western Hemisphere could even be affected.

Henri Fan of Globevisa, Faron Lawrence and Michael Martin, ex-CEO of Saint Kitts CIU

While the abuse of CBI passports by Chinese financial criminals, sanctions evaders, individuals engaged in industrial espionage, and intelligence operatives, who have been arrested around the globe, has been the primary concern of the United States and other nations, we must not lose sight of the fact that the growing influence of China in the Caribbean, whether through CBI, foreign aid programs, Belt & Road initiatives, the building of huge embassies in the region where there is zero international trade and tourism, and the supply of military tequipment, when added to the presence of advisors, represents a creeping infiltration of all aspects of Caribbean political, economic, and social sectors. That being said, we perceive the CBI threat to be the most serious, and and the one that could very well result in the existence of governments unfavorable, and perhaps even hostile, to the United States.

It is humbly suggested that America, as a matter of National Policy,work closely with the East Caribbean states, to assist them in cancelling all illegally-discounted citizenships issued and outstanding, who do not promptly pay the full balance due under the law, and use its diplomatic, legal, law enforcement, and economic agencies where and as needed to reform the various CBI programs, before the Caribbean falls victim to China's infiltration of the region's democracies.