SAINT LUCIA'S ARROGANT DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ERNEST HILAIRE IS THE FOURTH RICHEST INDIVIDUAL AMONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN THE FORMER BRITISH CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES

As part and parcel of our continuing investigation of corruption in the Citizenship by Investment (CIP) programs in the five East Caribbean states that sell passports, we have been calculating which senior government officials, at the ministerial level and above, have become multi-millionaires through the  illicit payment to them of bribes & kickbacks for each any every citizenship sold in their respective jurisdictions. 

We have taken published government figures, information obtained from confidential sources, and conservative estimates given from industry experts and former insiders, and come up with a short list of the officials who have collected the most cash from their criminal careers as facilitators who have used their authority to approve an obscene number of applications, often in numbers that exceed the total population of the states that they are charged to lead.

While we have decided to defer publishing all our findings of fact and conclusions, for the time being, it has come to our attention that there is one individual who stands out among the rogues' gallery of sinners, whom we wish to bring to the attention of our readers, simply because his illegally-derived wealth is all out of proportion to the small CIP role his country has previously played among the five East Caribbean states; It is Saint Lucia's Deputy Prime Minister, ERNEST HILAIRE, who we have determined is the fourth richest Caribbean government official, in all the English-speaking former British Caribbean territories that are now independent states. His incestuous relationship with former Bank of America banker-turned SKN CIU head, turned-Galaxy CEO, LES KHAN, is one of the principal reasons for his ultra-wealth status, which you will hearing much more about in future articles. Khan is  missing in action, as we have assembled all the facts.

Les Khan

DPM Hilaire, whose extraordinary amount of illicit wealth would frankly shock most readers, has managed to secrete much of his ill-gotten gains abroad, both via investments through shell companies, by using nominees and assignees, and in cold hard cash hoarded overseas. He has accumulated literally a King's Ransom in assets, for the proverbial rainy day when he hopes to quietly leave Saint Lucia forever, and live a life of utter luxury, at the cost of the constituents that he has misrepresented all these years.

So the question becomes this: will the long arm of law enforcement reach out and touch him, before he has the opportunity to spend all that dirty cash in the capitals of Europe, or will he cheat justice? Only certain government officials, who are outside of the Caribbean, know the answer to that question, and they, for the time being, are not talking.