ST. LUCIA LAND FRAUDSTERS ARE ALSO SELLING BOGUS IDENTITY DOCUMENTS TO FOREIGN PURCHASERS TO SECURE PASSPORTS

If you read our recent article RAMPANT REAL ESTATE FRAUD CONTINUES IN SAINT LUCIA, AND THE COUNTRY'S PRIME MINISTER, FINANCIALLY BENEFITING FROM THE ILLEGAL SCHEME, BLOCKS NECESSARY REFORM  new information has been supplied by a local Saint Lucia whistleblower, which indicates that the scandal is even more organized and amoral than earlier reports indicated.

The players, who we have previously confirmed include Prime Minister PIERRE, and we know now also include DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ERNEST HILAIRE, who is also be the Minister for Investment. What the conspirators are offering dodgy foreign "businessmen" who purchase the real estate they have covertly obtained, by altering deeds and other legal documents in the Land Registry, is selling the buyers bogus identity documents, intended to conceal their identities. These documents include official Saint Lucia Birth Certificates, sold to the buyers of stolen land, and other documents, and using them, selling them genuine CBI passports, which adopt the aliases and bogus local birth records just acquired, to give the buyers, all known foreign criminals, bulletproof identities with which they can now pass any due diligence records search of official records.

Our source indicates that the passports under bogus identities are secured with the assistance of Minister Hilaire, who as the head of the CIU, directs the agency's staff to follow his orders, irrespective of their legality. Both Hilaire and Pierre regularly collect their share of the illicit payments from the operators of the Land Fraud scheme.

Under the circumstances, and with the knowledge that legitimate SLC CBI passports exist, complete with with synthetic identities featuring aliases and bogus dates and places of birth, compliance officers would best declining any and all Saint Lucia passports, offered at account opening by "Saint Lucians" appearing at North American, UK and EU banks to open substantial accounts. You cannot trust the identifies to be valid. The risk level is simply too high; the odds are that what you are offered is part of a money laundering operati