FACING MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES, THE SON OF DOMINICA'S PRIME MINISTER IS GIVEN A DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT TO FLEE TO THE UNITED STATES; CAN HE BE DEPORTED BY ICE?

This is MALIK SKERRIT, the oldest son of the Commonwealth of Dominica's Prime Minister ROOSEVELT SKERRIT. After his vehicle hit a motorcycle driven by Kyan Joseph, his father created a diplomatic passport for his son, notwithstanding his age and student status, and with the help of several government law enforcement officials, spirited him out of the country before his victim died of his injuries., which therefore constitutes Vehicular Homicide or Manslaughter.The younger Skerrit, who did not possess a valid drivers' license, was immediately placed on transport for the United States; we note that he is NOT a US citizen, unlike all the other Skerrit children, whose mother arranged for them to be born in America

Malik Skerrit, according to his Linkedin page, is now a university student resident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As such, he cannot qualify as a working diplomat at an appropriate facility, as required under the Vienna Convention. Should he not be returned to Dominica, to face justice there, and with his bogus diplomatic status, he appears to be illegally in the United States, and therefore under ICE jurisdiction.

Can this clearly unqualified "diplomat" and felon, be removed from the United States, and who issued that diplomatic passport to him, which allowed him to cheat justice? We think the Prime Minister of Dominica has some explaining to do.

THE PRESIDENT OF DOMINICA CHOOSES TO SIDE WITH VENEZUELA AND CHINA, AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

China's PLA officers conduct war games in the Caribbean

The President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, SYLVANIE BURTON whose government is openly allied with the autocratic governments in Cuba, China and Venezuela, has openly called for the United States to discontinue its campaign to interdict drug trafficking and sanctioned oil distribution. Burton, a member of the country's native minority, accused the US of "bullying" the small island states of the Caribbean. Coming upon the same week that the military of the People's Republic of China was conducting virtual war gaming exercises in the Caribbean, according to the reputable South china Morning Post, there is further evidence that the Venezuela-inspired CARICOM "Zone of Peace" policy in the region, has seen open opposition from CARICOM Member states supporting American foreign policy in the South Caribbean. Burton openly sympathizes with CARICOM's pro-Venezuela side in the controversy, which is on behalf of a wanted dictator and narcotics trafficking, and opposed by other American allies who are Members. The United States regards the increasing influence of China in the Eastern Caribbean to be a National Security threat, as well as the expansion of Hezbollah's terrorist activities in Venezuela.

 

Dominica has openly allied itself with China for several years; its massive Embassy in the country's capital, Roseau, contained over 900 individuals, when evacuated during a weather emergency, and is believed to be China's principal listening post on the United States in the Eastern Caribbean. China has close to zero trade with Dominica, but it has a major presence on the island country. Dominica's paramilitary police, which is known to be extremely heavy-handed when confronting peaceful protestors, is equipped and led by Chinese advisors.

Dominica, which lost its visa-free UK entry status two years ago, and has recently been sanctioned by the United States, regarding the ability of its citizens to acquire visas to enter the US, due to fatal flaws in its CBI program, may now lose its visa-free access to the EU Schengen Zone, according to the European Commission. Compliance officers at US financial institutions should bear in mind that Dominica's principal American correspondent bank has blocked all funds transfers connected to the country's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program, and that as a result, Country Risk should be adjusted accordingly; it is also suggested that enhanced due diligence be completed, in advance of any significant wire transfers into or out of Dominica.

At least, the interview given by Dominica's President clarifies her government position, which is against the United States on the Venezuela situation.

A PHANTOM NEWSROOM: HOW A NON-EXISTENT UK NEWS COMPANY CONTINUES TO SHAPE CARIBBEAN POLITICAL NARRATIVES

WIC News, a news organization that no longer exists under UK law, is still publishing political content about the Caribbean, publishing fake news about the content in the Caribbean, influencing public debate, and defending corrupt Caribbean leaders, and all whilst operating without a legally registered and existing corporate entity, thus effectively shielding it from defamation and libel claims.

According to official UK Companies House records, the corporate entity behind WIC News was struck off the register in Britain in 2022, which should have been the end of its operations, but it continued, in violation of the law. When a company is struck off, it is legally dissolved; it  cannot engage in a trade or business, publish, employ writers, receive funds, or represent itself as an operating business. Yet WIC News continues to publish articles online, maintain an active website, and circulate political messaging. 

Corporate filings show that three former Directors,DRAGAN PERKANOVIC, SAMUEL CHRISTOPHER HILL, and BENJAMIN PARKER, resigned years before the company was struck off. None were therefore responsible at the time of corporate dissolution, and none are publicly connected to the site's current activity. 

Despite this vacuum in corporate existence, articles continue to appear under the byline of MONIKA WALKER, for whom no further information is available. Is she a real person, an alias, or a fake name? No registered entity has claimed responsibility for employing, commissioning or publishing this purported journalist. Someone is paying for the domain, hosting the website, commissioning content, and disseminating political narratives, all while hiding behind the identity of a company that no longer exists.

This is no longer solely a question of political opinion; operating a media outlet under the identity city of a dissolved company raises serious regulatory and legal concerns, including but not limited to misrepresentation, unlawful trading, and probably violations of United Kingdom corporate and transparency laws. The matter has reportedly now been referred to the authorities within the UK, who will be tasked with determining who controls WIC News infrastructure, and what laws have been violated.

A free press depends upon transparency and accountability; a press that publishes without a legal owner answered to no one. This question remains unanswered: who is really speaking, and what are they hiding?  Which Caribbean leader that is the beneficiary of a CBI program is behind the website, and will the British authorities now investigate? I will be sending all this information to the appropriate US government agencies for their review.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION POLICY STATEMENT: HAVING A CBI PROGRAM IS SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR SUSPENDING VISA-FREE PRIVILEGES, DUE TO THE INHERENT SECURITY RISKS

The governments of the five Eastern Caribbean states that offer Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports which grant visa-free entry to the European Union are facing the probable loss of that key feature, after a policy statement of the European Commission stated that the operation of a CBI program is "in itself" grounds for revocation of visa-free status. In a report to Parliament entitled EIGHTH REPORT UNDER THE VISA SUSPENSION MECHANISM, what is referred to as the "Inherent Security Risks" is given as the reason. 

" Visa-free countries operating investor citizenship schemes pose inherent security risks by potentially allowing third-country nationals who woulds otherwise be subject to visa requirements to bypass standard security checks and gain access to the Schengen area. through the acquisition of citizenship.

Such programs represent risks in terms of illegal migration, security threats, and tax evasion. These risks are particularly acute when combined with: (i) insufficient vetting and due diligence; (ii) the absence of a genuine link between applicants and the country granting citizenship; and (iii) the possibility of changing one's name during or after the process.

Consequently, under the revised Visa Suspension Mechanism, the operation of such programmes constitutes, in itself, a ground for suspending the visa-free status of third countries."

The five Eastern Caribbean CBI states were specifically mentioned in the document:

"In the Eastern Caribbean, investor citizenship schemes have been operated for many years in five countries, Antigua and barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia. These programmes pose a significant and ongoing challenge of much greater scale [the document cites the numbers of passports issued and the low rejection rate] raising concerns about the accuracy of security and due diligence procedures... the situation continues to raise significant concerns."

The  white paper Conclusion bluntly restates the European Commission's position:

"'... the continued operation of investor citizenship schemes in the Eastern Caribbean represents a PERSISTENT AND SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERN, constituting a potential ground for the suspension of visa-free travel under the revised Visa Suspension Mechanism."

Given the undeniable fact that visa-free travel into the EU is the single most attractive attribute of Eastern Caribbean passports, the implementation of visa suspensions would render them far less attractive to potential customers from high-risk countries, and even pose an existential threat. While most EC leaders have chosen to publicly ignore the impending possible loss of visa-free status, this white paper leaves little doubt where the EU is headed. Given that the local economies of the EC states have become heavily dependent upon CBI cash flow, their future could be bleak.

 

NOW FACING IMMINENT EXTRADITION, THE BILLIONAIRE FRAUDSTER MEHUL CHOKSI TRIES ONE LAST PROCEDURAL LOOPHOLE, BUT A COURT IN INDIA REJECTS HIS ARGUMENT AS WITHOUT LEGAL MERIT

Having exhausted all possible appellate avenues in the court system of Belgium, where he is being held for extradition, India's Most Wanted fugitive, the two billion dollar man, MEHUL CHOKSKI, attempts one last desperate legal maneuver, seeking to block the criminal court proceedings he anticipates will begin upon his arrival.

Choksi's team of attorneys in India have claimed that he cannot be prosecuted as a Fugitive Economic Offender by the Enforcement Directorate, due to an obscure provision in the Companies Act that his attorneys assert provides such action is blocked, due to the case brought against him by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office, under the same allegations.

The Court rejected this argument, holding that the prohibition mentioned in the Companies Act is not a bar to other proceedings for offenses under other acts. The prosecutor had also argued that Choksi's counsel had failed to act timely, and waived such an argument, which was only being filed for the purposes of delay, and without legal merit. We await the news that Mehul Choksi, after a delay approaching a decade, will finally be in the dock in a court of law in India, to face justice.

HOW THE PRIME MINISTERS OF DOMINICA AND GRENADA SOLD DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS FOR CASH

If you are new to the sordid world of the sale, for cash, of diplomatic passports to money launderers, international sanctions evaders, fraudsters, bulk cash smugglers and all the Other Suspects who acquire those prized tools for avoiding customs and immigration at airports of entry, catch up gentlemen; it's been going on for decades in the same Eastern Caribbean states that are under attack for selling economic passports to Chinese career criminals and spies.

Back in 2019, I was the lead consultant in the project of Aljazeera's Washington DC investigative unit, which resulted in the blockbuster article CARIBBEAN OFFICIALS LINKED TO DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT SALE. I recommend the article, which is as timely today as it was when originally published. Its findings are scathing.

The notorious Iranian oil sanctions evader and fraudster, ALI REZA MONFARED, who bought diplomatic passports from Dominica's corrupt Prime Minister, ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, is now serving a 20-year prison sentence, in connection with a multi-billion dollar theft of the proceeds of petroleum products. He could have received the Death Penalty.

BTW, it was subsequent investigation, by this Aljazeera unit, of the corruption surrounding the CBI program in the REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS, that resulted in the cancellation of the economic citizenship program.

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EU BANKERS; IS YOUR NEW AFFLUENT LEBANESE CUSTOMER REALLY A WANTED SYRIAN WAR CRIMINAL OR FINANCIER LIVING IN LEBANON WITH HEZBOLLAH SUPPORT?

One of the major challenges facing the government in Lebanon in 2026 will be to respond to the demands from the new Syrian government to turn over approximately three hundred former military leaders and financiers who fled to Lebanon when the Assad dictatorship fell in December 2024. many of those individual are wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, are the subject of sanctions, have French arrest warrants or INTERPOL Red Notices outstanding against them. They should be removed to Syria, or to those countries seeking them, to be tried for their crimes.

Complicating the Lebanese process is that some of these Syrian military and civilian leaders are living under the physical and legal protection of Hezbollah, and live in areas under de facto Hezbollah control, especially in HERMEL. Their removal is a problem that demands a solution, if Lebanon is ever to free itself from the influence of both Iran and Hezbollah.Compliance officers at EU financial institution should be on special alert for new bank clients, claiming to be refugees from Lebanon, who in truth and in fact are indeed Syrian bad actors wanted for their crimes.

 Some fugitive Syrian financiers now resident inside Lebanon pose a direct threat to the new Syrian government, as they are said to be funding actions designed to disrupt the new administration, and they as well might appear at your bank, seeking to open accounts.

These individuals will of course have legitimate Lebanese identification, even showing them as lawful residents, but their Arabic will not have the slang, cultural expressions, vocabulary and grammar of native Lebanese Levantine Arabic, which is distinct from that of Syria. Your Arabic speakers working in New Accounts should be briefed on assessing whether your new "Lebanese" customer is actually something entirely; watch for them.

SAINT KITTS AND THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS; RAMADA CLOSED AND ABANDONED BY CARIBBEAN GALAXY, WHICH TOOK PASSPORTS AND CASH AND LEFT

Kittitians are reporting that the RAMADA BY WYNDHAM ST. KITTS RESORT, a Caribbean Galaxy Group property, has been abandoned, and is closed and deserted. Travel websites describe "PERMANENTLY CLOSED." Galaxy, which diverted an estimated two billion (USD$2bn) dollars out of the SKN Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport sales program, sold thousands of passports, without due diligence qualification, to dodgy Chinese buyers, some of whom have been arrested in the United States and elsewhere, for fraud, money laundering and industrial espionage, after liberally spreading bribes and kickbacks among Saint Kitts most senior politicians. 

The promised extensive employment of locals never materialized, and hotel guests stopped coming when water was turned off, and hotel services disappeared.There are areas of the country dotted with the corpses of incomplete building construction shells, some showing no more than the foundation, all failed CBI projects that were supposed to bring prosperity to the Eastern Caribbean state. In some districts, they resemble bombed-out remnants of some forgotten war. The local Labour government, satiated with the proceeds of corruption, will do nothing to bring the executives from the now absent Chinese-owned CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP to justice.

The losers here are clearly the people of Saint Kitts, who were promised that the CBI program would increase their standard of living, bring a rush of foreign tourists to the island, and make the place a favored destination, due to the completion of upscale resorts and hotels. Instead, infected from the start by millions in bribes and kickbacks paid to local leaders, it has been an utter failure, and an abject lesson for all jurisdictions that believe that CBI will be the answer to funding their dysfunctional, bloated economies, by delivering the proverbial pot of gold to their treasuries.

Here, CBI = fraud, money laundering and corruption, and constitutes an utter failure for the people it was intended to benefit, thanks to Chinese companies stealing its funding, providing passports for international criminals, and taking the money to Hong Kong, all facilitated by the national leadership.

WHAT EFFECT WILL THE NEW FALL 2026 EU ETIAS PROGRAM HAVE ON SUPPRESSING MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIME BY CBI PASSPORT HOLDERS, OR IS THERE ANOTHER TARGET?

The new EUROPEAN TRAVEL INFORMATION AND AUTHORISATION SYSTEM, or ETIAS for short, comes into being in late 2026. Its impact upon travelers from outside the EU who have previously been enjoying visa-free entry depends upon whether they are ordinary leisure visitors, holders of Citizenship by Investment (CBI or CIP) passports., or financial criminals.

(1) Most leisure travelers will not be affected, unless they have something in their background that warrants exclusion, like a major criminal record.

(2) CBI passport holders, who generally purchased their economic citizenship expressly to avoid the expense and delays of securing a visa from their high-risk or even sanctioned countries of login, may now find they will be directed to secure a difficult to obtain visa. For many, although they will not admit it, visa-free entry into the EU was the primary reason they invested in a CBI passport in the first place. They now may have invested six figures with nothing to show for it. Will they now sue the company that sold them the citizenship?

(3) The money launderers, transnational financial criminals, and terrorist financiers may be identified during the ETIAS qualification process, and blocked as well, even under aliases, due to the employment of facial recognition software, but they have other, covert, means of gaining access, and the financial means to achieve it, so the effectiveness of ETIAS against them may be limited. I believe they will find adequate workarounds to gain entry.

So which group is the real target of ETIAS? Is it a thinly-disguised means for the European Commission to block those CBI passport holders it deems potentially high-risk? Or will denial of admission be limited to convicted felons who are serious criminals, and the most high-risk CBI passports only? We cannot say, but if there is widespread denial of CBI passport holders, the investment migration industry may face an existential moment; Stay tuned.

ON THE EVE OF HIS EXTRADITION, BRIBED JOURNALISTS PAID BY CHOKSI'S PR TEAM ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO SPIN HIS CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE TO THE PUBLIC IN INDIA AND THE UK

If you are following the Choksi case, you know that obscure, and heretofore unknown media from India are zealously advocating on behalf of the defendant, in advance of his imminent extradition to India. Don't believe any of the drivel that claims he won't leave Belgium for years; well-paid journalists, reportedly retained through a public relations firm, have been trying to mold public opinion, regarding their client. They are openly seeking sympathy for their  client. We call this checkbook journalism. 

A leading 2023 article exposed the questionable journalism, Mehul Choksi’s PR firm accused of bribing journalist to promote false narrative; MEHUL CHOKSI'S PR FIRM ACCUSED OF BRIBING JOURNALIST TO PROMOTE FALSE NARRATIVE  "There have also been claims that Choksi has infiltrate[d] major media houses and is getting them to write glowing pieces, painting him as a victim, which he is not by any means. He is also suspected of supplying large amounts of money through his PR company to get media houses to back him in such a manner.

The most amusing section of the article though, is where Choksi has been called a “jewel merchant” and not a fraudster who has escaped prosecutors in India with a mind boggling US $2 billion in his personal kitty."

We will continue to follow all developments in the UK civil case, as well as Choksi's pending transport to face justice in India.

DID INDIA PURSUE THE FUGITIVE BILLIONAIRE MEHUL CHOKSKI BECAUSE HE PLANNED TO CHEAT JUSTICE BY FLEEING TO EXTRADITION-PROOF CUBA, AND DID HIS UK LAWYER NOW VIOLATE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS?

If you read my original investigative report, entitled "The Disappearance of Mehul Choksi," and the accompanying Appendices, which attached the material that I collected during my investigation, you know that there was ample evidence that CHOKSI had planned, and was in the process of executing, covert travel to Cuba, to avoid extradition to face justice in India for his crimes. A Jamaican escape vessel and crew was laid on, and we believe Indian intelligence was alerted.

While he awaits extradition in a prison cell, having exhausted all his possible appellate remedies in Belgium, his UK lawyers are busy with a civil suit brought on his behalf, alleging that he was unlawfully kidnapped in Antigua, and that the bad actors who executed the act were acting on behalf of the Government of India.

I forwarded copies of my Report and Appendix to all parties, and the Court, in the pending civil case, as an Amicus Curie. I also attempted to extract information out of MICHAEL POLAK, Choksi's controversial British barrister, by offering to appear at trial as an expert witness, but he not only failed to respond, he filed an affidavit with the Court, seeking to challenge my credibility. The fact that I was a money launderer 45 years ago, and am now an expert witness,  and a consultant to law enforcement, seemed to be missing from his claims. I have testified three times before the United States Congress as an expert on financial crime.

In my opinion, he did this solely to try to discredit the investigative report and Appendix, whose information regarding Choksi' abortive efforts to flee to Cuba could benefit the defendants in the civil case. The last thing Choksi wants is for the trier of fact to get the full and complete story of Choksi's attempt to flee to avoid prosecution, but the truth must come out.

 Moreover, by filing that Affidavit, Attorney Polak exposed himself to being called as a witness at trial, and even a first-year law student knows that lawyers cannot be witnesses in a case where they are counsel. Mr. Polak must now RECUSE himself from any further involvement in the proceedings. His Affidavit has disqualified him from any further involvement in the UK civil case; He must withdraw.

WHAT ABOUT THE CARIBBEAN'S OTHER DEADLY SIN; THE SALE, FOR CASH, OF DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS TO MONEY LAUNDERERS AND TRANSNATIONAL FRAUDSTERS?

Long before the advent of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport sales programs, dodgy Prime Ministers from the five Eastern Caribbean CBI & CIP states sold diplomatic passports under the table, always for cash, to whomever had a need to pose as a diplomat, where they could evade customs & immigration officers in Europe. Money launderers and transnational fraudsters know that, if they want to move cash, bearer financial instruments, previous gems, valuable art and antiques, through national borders with impunity, a Caribbean state diplomatic passport will do the job.

While the holders of such bogus diplomatic credentials, who are totally unqualified under the Vienna Convention as bone fide envoys, are ignored by the United Nations, the financial crime threats posed by the abuse of diplomatic privileges needs to be curbed, as I can tell you as a reformed former money launderer that such a tool, in the wrong hands, gives the holder the ability to make an effective end run around anti-money laundering in the private sector.

Whether the new American foreign policy operations in the Eastern Caribbean will result in a change of governments that will end such policies, as part and parcel of anti-corruption reform, we cannot say, but we will be watching. The days when a career criminal can secure a diplomatic passport, no questions asked, need to come to an end.