ANGUILLA CONTINUES TO ATTRACT DODGY FOREIGN LAWYERS,WHO ARE FACILITATED BY FINANCIAL SERVICE COMPANIES, AND POINTEDLY IGNORED BY GOVERNMENT REGULATORS

Elvia Moenir-Alam

Back in the day, the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla was known to be user-friendly to money launderers, white collar criminals looking for a place to park their proceeds of crime, and other individuals which we label the Usual Suspects, some of whom were actually arrested in Anguilla itself and removed by foreign law enforcement agencies. During the period of the 1980s, Scotland Yard had some of its detectives granted arrest powers in the British Caribbean possessions and they worked out of the Miami FBI headquarters during that period.

After 9/11, there was a flurry of activity that was supposed to result in reform of the most notorious Caribbean"tax havens," or offshore financial centers involved in laundering criminal profits, including Anguilla, and I was given to understand that financial misconduct was a thing of the past there. However, after recently receiving information from a whistleblower there, himself a noted professional, I have learned that,. at least in some quarters, it is still business as usual.

to illustrate the current situation, I present the first example; Sint Maarten attorney, ELVIA MOENIR-ALAM, pictured here, known to represent dodgy clients alleged to be involved in narcotics trafficking. Notwithstanding that reputation, she had no problem committing a major fraud in Anguilla, allegedly assisted by the financial services firm, VISTRA CORPORATE SERVICES (ANGUILLA) LIMITED, whose name you may be familiar with, due to its involvement with the massive $4bn cryptofraud that was BINANCE HOLDINGS, which resulted in a Federal indictment, and a new major civil suit, filed by the survivors of the Hamas attack on Israel.

Vistra accepted, and processed, an Anguilla shell company, that had a name deceptively similar to that of an existing company, and which therefore should never have been completed; any mandatory name search conducted would have revealed that it was not acceptable for filing. Furthermore, the existing name was the fee simple title holder and owner of real property in Sint Maarten, owned by an Anguilla International Business company, creating the possibility that the fraudster, Moenir, could illegally transfer title, and obtain an asset that was not hers. Without Vistra's negligence in creating this new deceptive entity, such a fraud would not be possible.

We will be further detailing this matter, but the reader should be aware that there is another bad actor that contributed to the fraud: the Anguilla Company Registry negligently created the new entity for Moenir, with a deceptively similar name, and whose continuing misconduct the subject of our next upcoming article; Stay tuned.

FINANCIALLY BACKED BY CARIBBEAN GALAXY, FORMER PRIME MINISTER TIMOTHY HARRIS COULD RETURN TO POWER IN SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

When Team Unity collapsed, few observers expected the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party to return

to power so decisively. Yet the fragmentation of the coalition opened the door for the Labour

government to take office in a surprise electoral outcome. Nearly four years later, the political landscape 

has shifted once again. Saint Kitts and Nevis is facing mounting economic hardship, with Citizenship by 

Investment (CBI) revenues reportedly declining sharply from approximately $600 million per year to just 

over $100 million. This contraction has created fiscal pressure, rising public dissatisfaction, and political 

vulnerability for the current administration.

A relentless political comeback; Former Prime Minister Timothy Harris has never stepped away from the

political battlefield. He has remained in continuous campaign mode, maintaining visibility across 

constituencies, and positioning himself as an experienced alternative amid growing frustration with 

the current government. For a segment of the electorate, Harris symbolizes a return to economic activity

and state revenue growth associated with the peak years of the CBI program, despite the controversies 

that accompanied that era.

 According to reliable intelligence sources familiar with regional political financing, Caribbean Galaxy and its 

principal, Ying Jin, are financially backing Timothy Harris’s upcoming electoral campaign, as is Les Khan,

who jointly manages Caribbean Galaxy.These sources indicate that financial support is being provided 

with the clear objective of facilitating Harris’s return to power. The agreement took place in Saint Lucia.

It is publicly known that Timothy Harris and Ying Jin are represented by the same legal counsel,

Peter Foster, based in Saint Lucia. This overlap, combined with the intelligence assessments, reinforces

perceptions within diplomatic and policy circles of an ongoing strategic alignment between the former

prime minister and the Chinese-linked CBI operator. Neither party has publicly confirmed these claims.

Peter Foster

There is a Strategic Coalition with Nevis; In parallel, political sources report that Harris has reached an 

understanding with the Nevis-based Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) under NRP leader Janice Daniel-Hodge.

Such an arrangement would significantly alter the electoral balance, opening the path for a coalition government 

between Harris’s People’s Labour Party (PLP) and the NRP.If realized, this coalition would provide Harris with 

a credible parliamentary route back to office, particularly in a closely contested election environment.

PUSHBACK ON MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH ANGUILLA IGNORES THE TERRORIST FINANCING FUNNELED THROUGH ITS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

No sooner did I start my investigative series on current corruption in Anguilla than those individuals who don't want the truth to come out start trying to shoot the messenger. I certainly don't deny that I laundered the proceeds of narcotics crime in that British Overseas Territory, with the able assistance of the late Billy Herbert, a Kittitian attorney who had an office in the Valley, Anguilla's capital.

Now I am hearing claims that Dr. Herbert was not engaged in financial crime; in truth and in fact one of his primary clients was the Irish Republican Army ( IRA), which collected "donations" from Americans in New England, and laundered those funds through Anguilla, which were ultimately used to illegally purchase firearms and explosives, for terrorist use in Northern Ireland. That is textbook terrorist financing; we know that some of those illicit, but now cleaned, funds were seized by an agency of the British government whilst in transit, and that their loss was blamed by the IRA on Herbert. His death was no maritime mishap, according to American law enforcement.

All those in Anguilla who are so busy disputing the facts should consider that activities I am discussing include a subject far more serious than simple drug money laundering in Anguilla during that period, but extend to terrorist financing as well.

WHAT IS AN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER DOING IN A "RACE TRACK" HOLDING PATTERN NORTH OF CUBA?

The arriving GEORGE H.W, BUSH;We cannot say, but we will be watching. We do note that our current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has made no secret of American opposition to the autocratic regime that has oppressed the Cuban people since 1959, first through the dictator FIDEL CASTRO, and then through his successors, who have destroyed what was the most successful economy south of the United States. Will the United States now act against the regime, directly or indirectly, to bring it down? That is one of the most pressing questions that the Caribbean faces in 2026; stay tuned,

CHINA'S OPEN PIT MINING IN DOMINICA IS AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER AND ITS SUSPICIOUS AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION, WITH A 3000 METER RUNWAY, COULD ACCEPT MILITARY TRANSPORTS FROM ASIA

DIA, January 2026 construction status

If you are not following the construction of the new Dominica International Airport, in the extreme north east of the country, perhaps you should. China is engaged in horrific open-pit mining in Dominica's mountains, ostensibly for "stones" for the airport, but in truth and in fact, is extracting strategic metals, according to a number of reports posted online by Dominicans outraged that Prime Minister ROOSEVELT SKERRIT is permitting the plunder of his country's precious natural resources by a China that dominates Dominican domestic politics. Geologists and environmentalists in Dominica are up in arms about the situation. Unfortunately the country's hard-nosed Minister of National Security, RAYBURN BLACKMOORE, is covering it up.

Minister Rayburn Blackmoore

As for the airport, which will have obvious military applications, due to its extreme length, a not quite 10,000 runway, not necessary by any means for the alleged use, airliners with tourists coming from North America, there is a disturbing parallel to the airport under construction in Grenada in 1983, with Cuban logistical support of Soviet intentions at that time to expand its influence over the Caribbean, and we well remember the American military response to that national security threat to the United States.

2027 landing @DIA?

The United States should ask the Government of Dominica to present the Environmental lmpact Assessment and approved plans for the International Airport  to prove it is indeed a civilian airport, and not a Chinese military runway being built in the America’s Third Border.

Unfortunately, PM Skerrit does not appear to be taking the new active foreign policy changes of the Trump Administration, regarding the Eastern Caribbean, seriously. He will, most likely, be in for a surprise, and risk managers with companies with Caribbean exposure should govern themselves accordingly.

Deja vu?

IS THE UNITED STATES ABOUT TO IMPOSE A TRAVEL BAN ON SAINT KITTS & NEVIS AND SAINT LUCIA?

Rumors are flying around the Eastern Caribbean that the Trump Administration, having had it with the refusal of both Saint Kitts & Nevis and Saint Lucia, to stop selling Citizenship by Investment (known as CBI & CIP) passports to career criminals and foreign intelligence agents, who then use them to obtain visas to enter the United States, will shortly impose a total travel bank on the citizens on the citizens of those two island states. We believe that there is a factual basis for those fears, since some individuals from those jurisdictions have reported back to their leaders being detained upon arrival in the United States, questioned about their relationship with CBI programs, and even interrogated about their intentions and plans regarding their visit.

It has reached the point where St. Kitts' Drew Administration, which is distrusted by the vast majority of the voters who once elected his Labour Party to office, has been forced to issue a bland press release, trying to assuage voters about the coming storm, when travel to the U.S. is blocked, and they cannot visits expats there who are family members, or for business purposes.

We are monitoring a statements regarding the Caribbean by the Department of State, and will report on all developments on this subject as they occur.

WHEN THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF DOMINICA ACCEPTED A ONE MILLION DOLLAR BRIBE TO SWITCH HIS COUNTRY'S RECOGNITION FROM TAIWAN TO CHINA

Turn the clock back to the year 2004; the newly-elected young Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica , who took office without the benefit of an earned university degree, received an offer that he simply could not refuse; change Dominica's diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China, from its current recognition of Taiwan, and a million dollars (USD$1,000,000) in cash was his for the taking.

Skerrit consented to receiving the bribe, and the funds were quietly transferred to a U.S. bank, under the care, custody and control of a close relative, who is a financial services professional, and who has held these assets for him since that period, so no questions would be raised over how a PM in a poor Caribbean state could posses such wealth.

There are reports from Dominica that his cousin has invested this money wisely in America, into income-producing real estate. Of course, in doing so, most lawyers would opine that she has violated the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). We trust that she has retained the professional services of a capable American criminal defense attorney , because she may be in need of one, with the publication of this story.

The 900-man Chinese Embassy in Dominica

Although PM Skerrit may have since become fabulously wealthy, by virtue of not only the bribes and kickbacks paid to him over the past two decades in office, as well as the case paid him for the illicit sale of Dominica diplomatic passports to career criminals, this first dirty million he grabbed and had deposited in an American bank may just be his undoing; Only time will tell, because the United States is watching.

CORRUPTION STILL REIGNS IN IDYLLIC ANGUILLA

Back in the nineteen eighties, the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla was a money launderer's jurisdiction of choice; On the wall, in Attorney William (Billy) Herbert's waiting room, was displayed hundreds of shell companies formed by him, some of which were virtual banks, formed for dodgy clients like yours truly at the time, as we moved the proceeds of crime through the island's indigenous financial institutions, en route to investments with cleaned money, or still more remote locations, to be secreted for drug trafficking clients. I would come ashore at Blowing Point, by ferry from French St. Martin, bearing cash and financial instruments, to begin their long journey.

I had been given to understand that major reforms have taken place there, but my recent investigation, supported by information supplied by a whistleblower, have led me to believe that there is still Trouble in Paradise. An examination of this information will be the subject of this series of articles, as we endeavour to unravel what is most surely fraud supported by both official, as well as private, corruption in the Valley, Anguilla's tropical capital.

The evidence I have in hand allegedly implicates a number of parties and entities, regarding fraud and mismanagement ; initially, I shall be covering these targets:
(1) AXA OFFSHORE MANAGEMENT LTD.
(2) VISTRA CORPORATE SERVICES ( ANGUILLA) LIMITED
(3) COMMERCIAL REGISTRY, ANGUILLA FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION
(4) SINT MAARTEN ATTORNEY ELVIA MOENIR-ALAM

I do not have authorization from my whistleblower at this time to reveal his identity, but hope to be able to do so in future articles. In our next article, we shall begin to get into detail regarding our allegations of criminal and civil offenses. The facts speak for themselves, and we invite you to consider all of them, and form your own opinion as to guilt; stay tuned.

U.S. FEDERAL COURT AUTHORIZES BANKING DISCOVERY AGAINST CARIBBEAN GALAXY AND YING JIN IN MAJOR LEGAL DEFEAT

Caribbean Galaxy's Ying Jin

New York — January 20, 2026

In a decisive ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Philippe Martinez

and MSR Media SKN Ltd. have secured a major legal victory—one that simultaneously constitutes a

clear defeat for Caribbean Galaxy, Ying Jin, Timothy Harris, and for other associated parties whose

U.S. banking transactions are now subject to court-authorized subpoenas.

The order, signed on January 20, 2026 by Judge Ronnie Abrams, grants discovery under 28 U.S.C.

§1782, authorizing subpoenas to Standard Chartered Bank and Bank of New York Mellon for use in

foreign legal proceedings. The successful application was advanced by Washington-based

international law firm Miller & Chevalier, counsel to Martinez and MSR Media.

 

A definitive legal loss for Caribbean Galaxy and Ying Jin

The court’s ruling authorizes discovery of U.S. banking transactions involving Caribbean Galaxy Real

Estate Corporation, Galaxy Group, Ying Jin, former Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Timothy

Harris, and additional individuals and entities identified within the approved subpoenas. This decision

represents a judicial rejection of desperate  efforts to block financial scrutiny. Transactions processed

through Standard Chartered Bank and Bank of New York Mellon involving these parties will now be

produced, subject to the court-approved scope.

Why access to U.S. correspondent banks is decisive

 U.S. correspondent banks sit at the center of global finance. Even when accounts are held offshore,

U.S. dollar transactions typically clear through New York. The ruling allows access to wire transfers,

correspondent banking records, SWIFT messages, and compliance materials identifying beneficial

owners and intermediaries.

Clarifying the  Gaston Browne comparison: the Alpha Nero yacht case

The ruling stands in contrast to a separate §1782 effort connected to the Alpha Nero superyacht matter

involving Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, where U.S. courts did not authorize

bank subpoenas. This underscores that §1782 relief is discretionary and based on strict judicial

standards. 

Conclusion

With subpoenas authorized against two of the world’s most important banking institutions, this ruling

confirms that when the legal threshold is met, U.S. courts will compel disclosure regardless of borders

or political sensitivity.