PASSPORT CRIME IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR CARIBBEAN PEPs

Bank Compliance officers who have taken the denials made by the defendants in the CBI RICO case against Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in the East Caribbean at face value, and taken a wait-and-see attitude until the evidence and proof of fraud and corruption appear in court, are just fooling themselves. I have been not only an observer, but a former participant in Caribbean crime for decades, and passport misuse by senior officials is rampant and continuing. It exists because,among Caribbean PEPs, there is no accountability, nor any moral fiber in government to stop the illicit bribes & kickbacks that officials accept while supposedly working for the people who have elected them to office.

If you are a regular reader of my work, you know that for at least a decade i have published direct evidence of PEP misconduct. Look at the date on the attached diplomatic passport from Dominica, issued to the then-serving Prime Minister of St. Kitts. Why do you think he needed it? To evade customs inspection during international travel, especially when he was depositing the proceeds of crime, or making real estate investments abroad. Caribbean PEPs have been cooperating among themselves s long as their countries have been independent, exchanging favors that facilitate corruption. They have typically used methods and techniques I knew as a money launderer, and they are adept at them.

The filing of the RICO suit should be a wake-up call for compliance officers not sure whether they should advise their banks to close correspondent accounts for Caribbean jurisdictions that are obviously facilitating corruption and money laundering, and that carry with them an unacceptable level of risk. Allowing dirty money to transit through those accounts represents Willful Blindness, which is a serious offense here in the United States. Govern yourselves accordingly, please.