ST.KITTS ISSUING CBI PASSPORTS FOR MINORS WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT, WHICH COULD BE USED TO FACILITATE PARENTAL KIDNAPPING (INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION)

In our search to obtain further information on specific cases involving the illegally discounted sale of Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports by the St. Kitts CIU at the price of $80,000, we were contacted by an individual who stated that she has seen correspondence and evidence confirming that her husband paid that amount, and that he obtained an SKN CBI passport for their minor son totally without her knowledge and consent. This is an extremely disturbing development, and indicates that the approval process contains a fatal flaw which could facilitate parental kidnapping, which is often conducted across international frontiers, and is a serious felony.

This is relevant because the parties are in the middle of a contested divorce, and parental kidnapping, the illegal removal of a child by the non-custodial parent, is every mother's nightmare. We constantly see stories where Western mothers, married to a father with Middle Eastern background, learn that their minor child has been taken, without their authorization, to the father's birth country, and that he thereafter refused to return him to the custodial parent, in a country where the mother has little or no rights in court to secure his return.

To accomplish this crime, the father would have had to have had the complicity of both the passport vendor/consultancy, and the St. kitts CIU agency, for the mother's verified signature for a minor child is a legal requirement on an application. The fact that this was accomplished covertly means that the CBI application process could be accomplished without a face-to-face with both parents, which is a recipe for fraud, or worse. We wonder how Les Khan could approve such negligent conduct, and must assume it was intentional. Faron Lawrence also owes us some answers.

If the St. Kitts CBI agency can issue a passport to a minor without the mandatory consent required, we are now wondering what other illegal "shortcuts" the individuals responsible for processing and approving the applications engage in, in their quest to collect the government charges in the lucrative program. Is it not time for an external audit of all St. Kitts CBI passport application files, to ascertain whether other illegal tactics the CIU engaged in are illegal, immoral, Human Rights violations, or represent a Clear and Present Danger to applicants, third parties, the global banking structure, terrorist financing, or other threats to peace and security?