COMPLIANCE OFFICERS, REMEMBER THAT THE THREATS FROM CHINESE CAREER CRIMINALS WIELDING CARIBBEAN CBI PASSPORTS ALSO COME FROM ST. LUCIA

While the media focuses upon the scandal surrounding the issuance of thousands of St. Kitts CBI passports, through Caribbean Galaxy, the Chinese company alleged to have knowingly accepted bogus identification from Chinese nationals, some of whom have already been arrested in the US, UK, Singapore and elsewhere, a good compliance officer instinctively knows that money launderers generally carry multiple forms of valid identification while engaged in international travel, to disrupt any possible subsequent criminal investigation, and to eliminate the establishment of a pattern which a sharp compliance officer might tumble to, during a due diligence query. When I was engaged in money laundering I, like the individuals that are cleaning cash today, was careful to employ this trick routinely, to cover my tracks. It is standard operating procedure.

You can expect these same Chinese career criminals whose activities have been facilitated by their possession of those St. Kitts passports, to not only have more than one, under different aliases, but they will also have CBI passports from that other East Caribbean jurisdiction whose CIP unit has also literally been in bed with Caribbean Galaxy, the East Caribbean state of St. Lucia. If you read Caribbean news, you know that the country's Deputy Prime Minister is so afraid of his Chinese masters, that he has ignored his constituents' pleas to disclose the actual number of passports issued through Caribbean Galaxy.

Therefore, you can expect that, now that the negative global publicity about SKN CBI passports has alerted compliance officers to the criminal abuse of St. Kitts passports, all those Chinese laundrymen, sanctions violators, narcotics traffickers, intelligence agents, and other of the Usual Suspects, are trotting out their St. Lucia CBI passports during their operations; Watch for them. It's not just about St. Kitts anymore. Try to think like a money launderer if you want to catch them in the act.