ARE THERE MORE UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE AT SAINT LUCIA'S BELEAGUERED CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT UNIT?

If you read our recent article, Was it Nepotism or Corruption, at Saint Lucia's CIP unit, that was Responsible for the Issuance of  Thousands of Fraudulent Passports?*(August 23, 2024), you know that we have identified the CIP Unit's Risk Profiler as an individual who does not appear to have the education, training or experience for that critical position. That article, which has not resulted in the public production of any evidence to the contrary, but drawn Government efforts to censor news about the Unit and its staff, reminds us that there is no publicly-available information about the qualifications of the other approximately ten staff members who process, and ultimately approve, CBI economic citizenship and passport applications.

Given that the RICO case alleges that literally thousands of applications, featuring deeply-discounted illegal sales prices, have been processed and approved by the Unit, does not then the Saint Lucian public, as well as the correspondent banks in the United States that accept CIP deposits, deserve to know whether those other staff members have the necessary professional and vocational qualifications to work in a CIU? Given that there are reports indicating that the Unit has not disapproved any of the applications sent in by CARIBBEAN GALAXY  REAL ESTATE LIMITED, is it not time to examine the CIU personnel, to determine if minimal professional industry standards are being observed and followed?

At the very least, the situation demands that the names, qualifications, including relevant work experience, of each and every CIU staff member, as well as supervisory personnel be made public.a s well as the term of their contracts, and salary and benefits. These are publicly-funded government positions and the people of Saint Lucia deserve to know what they are getting for their money. Transparency at the CIU must now be the order of the day, given the serious allegations of fraud, money laundering and corruption in the pending RICO case.

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