IT'S TIME TO TAKE DRASTIC ACTION AGAINST CBI PROGRAMS THAT THREATEN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

                             

Because of my somewhat unusual 'professional" background, immediately after 9/11 I accepted an employment offer to serve as a compliance officer, at a billion dollar niche investment company. I, of all people, know the importance of due diligence. For the last fifteen years, I have reported on my blog regarding the parade of money launderers, fraudsters, transnational criminals, sanctions evaders, and intelligence agents, who have been arrested with citizenship by investment (CBI/CIP) passports in hand, committing crimes, engaging in espionage and the facilitation of abject corruption, all the while the CBI countries are claiming to the world's government agencies that they have performed effective due diligence, at the level of Banking Best Practises. It is total nonsense. The lying, arrogant political leaders of the five EC CBI states are laughing all the way to the bank; It is a compliance officer's nightmare every day, and the bad due diligence was only possible because of the mismanagement and corruption of government officials.

We are now left with more than 250,000 CBI passports held by God knows who, all intent upon committing bad acts which damage the security of the Western democracies, threaten the national security of the US, UK and EU, defraud their victims, and incriminate the world's largest financial institutions for money laundering. Inasmuch as no amount of pressure has succeeded in cleaning up their due diligence mess, I submit that all five programs, those of SAINT KITTS & NEVIS, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, DOMINICA, SAINT LUCIA and GRENADA, require immediate termination, because the world needs to be rid of the amoral mess that they have created, all fostered by bogus due diligence processes that have given a valuable tool to the most evil elements of our society, allowing them to commit their worst acts and deeds. This is not just my opinion, as RALPH GONSALVES, a major Prime Minister in the region, has been warning that the situation is now out of control. Under PM Gonsalves, Saint Vincent has been able to develop its economy without a CBI program. Furthermore, the CBI money has allowed sales agents in Dubai and China and the Caribbean corrupt leaders to build a fortune on the backs of the people of the Caribbean.

These corrupt leaders have failed over and over again, and the time to trust them is over, as they have effectively handed the keys of their programs, and their countries, to Chinese operatives. 2025 is the crossroads; it is time to take drastic sanctions against the CBI programs to end the madness that constitutes a massive danger to the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.