IF THE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRES WITH YOU TO COMMIT FRAUD ON A GRAND SCALE, IS THAT AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE UNDER THE LAWS OF SAINT KITTS & NEVIS?

I must admit that it has been a while since I have consulted Halsbury's Laws of England on any research topic, and I am certainly neither qualified nor interested in rendering an opinion on the conduct of RIF TRUST and LATITUDE CONSULTANCY, whom the evidence appears to confirm were engaged in the widespread sale of illegally-discounted Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passports, but there is an issue of law which I feel that I must raise in this case.

Of the thirty-one established Affirmative Defenses in English Common Law, The conduct of the SKN Government, whose former Prime Minister TIMOTHY HARRIS and current Attorney General GARTH WILKIN not only permitted, but reportedly even encouraged, the illicit sales, which constitute a criminal act by statute, I find that RATIFICATION, which is the act of giving consent to, or sanctioning the prior acts of a defendant, such that a plaintiff cannot complaint about the act later, to be relevant based upon the facts and the evidence presented. Could the government be estopped from charging these two companies, based upon that principle?

Defrocked ex-Prime Minister Timothy Harris

    Former SKN Foreign Minister, and now the present Premier of Nevis, MARK BRANTLEY, publicly called out both PM Harris and AG Wilkin in 2022, for a national conspiracy to commit fraud, asserting that they had intentionally closed their eyes to the problem. They never took any action in response to his statement.

Inasmuch as there are media reports of threatened litigation, on both sides, as an objective and longtime observer of the Caribbean CBI industry, and to be fair and impartial on reporting the news, I am obligated to raise this issue. I cordially invite attorneys admitted to the practise of law in the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis to weigh in with an Opinion of Counsel. Are any claims against these two consultancies, or any other CBI vendors similarly situated, barred at Common Law?

Current Attorney General Garth Wilkin