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While legal observers wait to see which former, or even current, senior government officials in Saint Kitts, and in Saint Lucia, end up being indicted in the United States for their role in the fraud, money laundering and corruption scandal involving Citizenship by Investment passport sales, it looks like other East Caribbean leaders may very well end up in the dock in an American courtroom first. Remember the 2019 Money laundering case against AIR PEACE CEO ALLEN ONYEMA, who was charged with laundering tens of millions of dollars into the US, employing a bogus airliner Letter of Credit purchasing scheme? There have been major new developments in Atlanta in that $20m money laundering and bank fraud case.
The US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia has just filed a Superseding indictment against Onyema and one other defendant, on greatly expanded charges, and all indications are that there will be defendants named in another criminal matter, due to Onyema's alleged close relationship to Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne and his Cabinet, a number of who are allegedly also implicated in major financial crimes. The role of Onyema in the rebirth of the troubled regional airline LIAT has potential implications not only Antigua's leaders, but certain other bad actors in positions of government in a number of the other East Caribbean states, who might also be named.
We wonder how many Caribbean leaders are having trouble sleeping this week?
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