GRENADA'S PRIME MINISTER; WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN NIGERIA FOR CBI PASSPORT APPLICATIONS; PURE INSANITY

Mitchell with a Fistful of CBI passports

This is Grenada's Prime Minister, DICKON MITCHELL, on Facebook, hawking his country's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) economic passports, by advertising the fact that one can process their application in NIGERIA. Compliance officers, who are well aware that victims in the United States have been targeted for years by a host of Nigerian transnational criminals, should be concerned, for the ability to disguise their nationality is a major component of white collar crime, when one comes from a high-risk jurisdiction.

I have lost count of the number of Nigerian career criminals indicted in America, whether for romance fraud, advance fee schemes, or a number of illicit activities, all of which have made U.S. law enforcement agencies concerned about how such individuals can operate within their native country with impunity, attacking Americans.

In a country with a documented high amount of official corruption, what is to prevent criminals from purchasing a government ID under an alias, and using it to successfully process a Grenada CBI passport? Remember, of all the five EC CBI states, only Grenada allows its citizens the ability to obtain an E-2 Treaty Investor visa. Consider the possibilities; clever career Nigerian criminals could end up legally inside the United States.

I cannot understate the seriousness of my concerns; Native-born Grenadians, who prize their unique E-2 eligibility, amongst all the countries of the Eastern Caribbean, for PM Mitchell's zeal to sell more CBI passports could result in the American termination of the visa program. Apparently, national avarice has trumped common sense in Grenada.