DOMINICA PRIME MINISTER CALL FOR CHINA TO TAKE OVER TAIWAN

In one of this week's most disturbing stories to come out of the Caribbean, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, has called for what he called the "Unification of Chinese Territories," which is one of the terms the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) uses to mean the incorporation of The Republic of China (Taiwan) into the PRC. Skerrit's speech was delivered in connection with the opening of the first phase of Dominica-China Friendship Hospital, which was completed with Chinese funding.

Dominica recognized the PRC in 2003, and it has been the recipient of a number of construction projects, some of which are in progress, since then. The PRC Embassy, which supports staff and dependents of approximately 1000, is believed to be an intelligence listening station, conducting electronic and human surveillance upon the United States and Canada. Over 900 embassy staff were evacuated from Dominica during the last hurricane. The size of the embassy is a mystery, as it appears to perform extremely limited diplomatic functions in Dominica and elsewhere.

Most troubling about the increase of Chinese influence in the East Caribbean is the pro-China rhetoric
coming from leaders in the region. There are several Chinese embassies and consulates in the area, and given that international trade, student exchanges, and cultural missions are rare events, the embassies are reportedly centers for the collection of intelligence, including the dispatch of covert agent to North America, to collect information.

Pro-unification statements from abroad may convince China that it can take over Taiwan , and the islands it occupies off the coast of China, without any response from the West; such an action would trigger a probable American military response. Caribbean leaders, several of whom maintain radical leftist or Socialist views,would do well to cease and desist pro-China statement, as they may have untoward consequences.

LIBAN HAJI MOHAMED - MOST WANTED TERRORIST - AMERICAN CITIZEN WITH AL-SHABAAB - $50,000 REWARD

GRENADA APPROVED KNOWN MONEY LAUNDERER AND SANCTIONS EVADER FOR CBI GSA PROJECT

Soren Dawody, far left.

It has now become evident that Soren Dawody was well known as a money launderer and facilitator of sanctions evasions for those countries facing major United Nations and United States sanctions, yet he was approved by the Government of Grenada as an approved contractor for his Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture project. His extensive money laundering activities, employing financial institutions on a global scale, could not possibly have been missed by the Grenada Citizenship by Investment Committee, even if they had performed only the most rudimentary due diligence investigation.

We must therefore conclude that, since the Committee was composed of seemingly responsible public servants, that corruption, on a grand scale was responsible for the apparent lapse in judgment, that illicit payments were used to grease the approval, notwithstanding that Dawody, as GSA operator, has no experience in aquaculture, and had no required government immigration consultant license in Canada, where he claimed to be engaged in business.  Even the most inexperienced compliance officer, if doing his or her duty, would have rejected him.

Given the foregoing, the Government of Grenada must accept liability to the investors and creditors of the GSA Project, and make restitution for their losses. To do otherwise forever taints the CBI program, and will most likely cause CBI consultants abroad to steer clear of the country's program, lest they find themselves personally liable to their clients for Grenada's negligence.

Will Grenada's CBI program now be the subject of an unofficial blacklist by the international community ? we cannot say, but we will be closely monitoring the government's ongoing investigation, to determine whether it will take any action to clear Grenada's CBI image, and pay its victims.

SCOTT KOHN, $300m PONZI SCHEMER WANTED BY FBI

WILL GRENADA CHARGE SOREN DAWODY WITH FRAUD IN $18m GSA SCANDAL ?

Caribbean watches are focusing upon Grenada of late; the status of its CBI programs have taken a beating recently, in the aftermath of the Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture fiasco, which remains unbuilt, notwithstanding the investment of an estimated eighteen million dollars in the project. rumors that Government will soon bring criminal charges against GSA project CEO Soren Dawody have surfaced in the last two months. When will Grenada act against Dawody, whose failure to honor investor requests for reimbursement, has gone unanswered ?

Apparently, the negative press about the GSA scandal has affected sales status of a number of pending Grenada CSI-real estate linked projects, the most prominent of which is being built by Range Development, a regional CBI developer who has finished projects in St Kitts and in Dominica. If Grenada fails to act swiftly, investors and CBI passport applicants will surely seek out other East Caribbean states who have CBI programs, so criminal charges are likely.

MAP OF PROPOSED TRUMP ISRAEL-PALESTINE PEACE PLAN

HAVING SPREAD DISINFORMATION FOR DOMINICA AND ST KITTS ELECTIONS, CBI CONSULTANCIES SEEK TO MANPULATE UPCOMING ST LUCIA CONTEST

Building upon the success they enjoyed in the Dominica national elections, and their ongoing efforts to fix the upcoming St Kitts & Nevis national contest, behind-the-scenes operators being financially supported by CBI Consultancies have moved on to the St Lucia elections, and are seeking to influence the outcome.

St Lucia-born Melinius Alphonse, a self-styled "journalist' who writes exclusively on behalf of anything that benefits the bottom line of CBI consultancies, is zealously touting an Opposition candidate in St Lucia, raising the presumption that the election will result in additional marketing opportunities for CBI consultants not presently qualified in St Lucia, but who would be allowed to participate in selling St Lucia CBI/CIP products, when Mr. Pierre is elected to office.

According to published reports, multiple articles, critical of the sitting government, including misstatements of material fact,about its senior officials holding office, designed to inflame the voters about their purported corruption, have been placed in a number of websites. We call this "checkbook" journalism, and trust that readers will see through those fiiings, and made an educated decision regarding the "facts" appearing within these "sponsored" ( e.g. paid) articles, appearing in the half dozen Caribbean online media who accept paying contributors.

RODA TAHER, $94m GLOBAL MONEY LAUNDERER, OPERATED FROM BEIRUT; WANTED IN MIAMI

DOMINICA OPENS AN EMBASSY IN THE EMIRATES, INCREASING RISK LEVELS FOR ITS CBI PROGRAM

Opening ceremonies, Abu Dhabi UAE

The Commonwealth of Dominica has announced the opening of its Embassy, in Abu Dhabi, United Emirates. While diplomatic news usually does not generate much interest, this action could have far-reaching consequences, due to the fact that Dominica's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Program has accepted more career white-collar criminals, international sanctions evaders, and organized crime figures, than any of the other East Caribbean states offering CBI passports, and this new embassy, in a country which has zero international commerce with Dominica, will surely facilitate the issuance of Commonwealth of Nations member passports to dangerous and unsuitable applicants.

Let's survey the possible ways a Dominica embassy in the Emirates could facilitate money laundering, sanctions evasion, and terrorist financing:

(1) Iranian nationals, including government procurement agents, military and intelligence officers, and hackers performing industrial espionage, many of who already reside in the UAE, will find it infinitely easier to obtain Dominica CBI and diplomatic passports, which can be issued at the embassy, and records of these actions not transmitted to the capital in Roseau.

(2) CBI deposits, which are in US Dollars, can be delivered right into the embassy, and avoid being wired to banks in Dominica, whose transit through the New York banking structure, automatically confers jurisdiction upon US Federal Courts for money laundering charges. Now, the greenbacks, whether cash or in electronic form, will evade the Western Hemisphere altogether, and remain in the Middle East. Influential CBI consultancies will find a way to exploit the embassy's secrecy and immunity, resulting in an increase in the issuance of CBI passports to individuals who pose a clear and present danger to the West, and especially the US.

(3) The actual signup of dodgy CBI clients, by the international consultancies which have the ability to attract such traffic, could take place inside the embassy, in a protected diplomatic location, away from thye prying eyes of both law enforcement and regulatory agencies.

(4) Corrupt senior Dominica officials could stockpile the bribes and kickbacks paid to them outside Dominica, inside embassy grounds, where it would remain hidden. That capital might end up in the hands of global terrorist organizations, a cash-poor Iranian Government, or who knows what other  criminal entity Dominica's anti-American and pro-Socialist officials choose to finance or fund. All this would  enjoy diplomatic protection from law enforcement investigation.

Will the new embassy become a hotbed of criminal activity ? We cannot say, but given the sordid history of Dominica's sales of CBI and diplomatic passports, it would be prudent to assume that the new facility in Abu Dhabi will be engaged in conduct that results in the criminal elite acquiring identity documents in the privacy of the embassy, and using them to perpetrate white-collar crime, sanctions evasion, and terrorist financing.

HAVE TECHNOLOGY AND CORRUPTION COMBINED TO KILL EFFECTIVE CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE ?

The days when one could access one or more of the leading commercial off-the-shelf databases for high-risk individuals and entities, and be reasonably assured that you were not onboarding a new bank client who was sanctioned, or otherwise unsuitable due to criminal or corrupt activities. Now, due to the combination of modern technology and widespread governmental corruption, you may be presented with official identity documents that present the client with an alias, but which pass each and every enhanced due diligence test for authenticity.

Take the Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs currently in place in five East Caribbean states; successful applicants receive not only the prized passport, but back-up documents, including but not limited to birth certificates, drivers' licenses, proof of residence, titles to local real estate, utility bills, and everything else that a diligence New Accounts officer at a bank would require. Oh, and by the way, the name on the passport is a clean alias, and the listed place of birth shows that the holder was born there.

The individual will pass any traditional due diligence inquiry, although under his real name he may be subject to OFAC sanctions, be a terrorist financier, a convicted transnational criminal, or worse, an actual terrorist. His authentic identity documents generally will not be questioned.

If the applicant cannot, for some reason, avail himself of the CBI method, perhaps he can find a totally corrupt government official in his home country to issue a bogus, though real,  passport and supporting evidence, for the right amount of money. The passport is properly issued, and cannot be found to be counterfeit, because it is real.Therefore effective Customer Due Diligence cannot be accomplished. True identities cannot be obtained using traditional compliance procedures.

Does technology provide a solution ? Yes, but it appears to be currently unavailable, Facial recognition technology solves the problem, BUT facial recognition software requires access to a complete, passport-quality, photo library of images, to check your targets against, and to date, such a database has not been created nor made commercially available. It probably does not yet exist, even as a classified asset.

Is there an alternative ? We cannot find one, which means that until facial recognition technology, coupled with an adequate image library, comes along, you must fall back upon your transaction monitoring to catch your money launderer, terrorist financier or transnational criminal. You are going to have to unwittingly admit unsuitable clients, through ignorance, and rely upon your effective transaction monitoring software to identify bad actors, Therefore, it is humbly suggested that you insure that it is not only effective, but that it gives you real-time information, and is constantly monitored by competent, experienced staff, with the authority to shut down suspected money laundering.

 

Eventually, the marketplace will result in the creation of the combination of facial recognition technology, with adequate image resources, and customer identification procedures will  return .

RECHERCHE' PAR LE FBI = EBONG ALOYSIUS TILONG - BLANCHIMENT D'ARGENT

MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONCEALS DOMINICA'S DARKEST SINS

This is Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs Francine Baron, a career politician, and the daughter of a former politician. She is the self-appointed guardian of Dominica's list of foreign holders of Dominica Diplomatic passports, what some have called "The List of the Damned," as it reportedly includes Iranian government officials, Russian organized crime members, and assorted career white collar criminals. Many have since been arrested, convicted and imprisoned for their crimes.

Minister Baron has zealously kept the identities of hundreds of diplomatic passport holders from the people of Dominica, arrogantly stating in public:

    "It [the Government of Dominica] remains opposed to the idea of divulging the
     information on all appointees in a forum that is essentially public in nature, and
     to which the entire world has access."

The public cannot know who their diplomats are ? Dominica has only a handful of bona fide diplomats, and they maintain only a small number of embassies and missions. So where in the world do all the hundreds of "other diplomats" serve, Ms. Baron ?  How much cash was paid in, literally under the table, to facilitate the issuance of diplomatic passports by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to whom ? We cannot say, but the citizens of the Commonwealth of Dominica deserve to see who their "diplomats" are, minister. You serve the people, not the Prime Minister and the Labour Party.

JAMAICAN INVESTMENT FRAUDSTER USED DECEPTIVELY SIMILAR NAME

World Wise victims seek their money back

If you read our recent article,  Denied US Citizenship, Jamaican $260m Ponzi Schemer & Fraudster, Wanted in Kington, Lives Openly in the USA, you know that Noel Strachan used World Wise Partners as his investment entity. What you don't know is that fraudsters typically employ a number of techniques to lull the victims into trusting them, and placing their hard-earned money in the hands of a criminal.

World Wise was most likely chosen by Strachan because it is deceptively similar to the same name as a number of well-established, legitimate corporations operating around the world. To avoid charges of corporate identity theft, Strachan cleverly separated the title into two parts. The other, prior users of the name use WorldWise or Worldwise.

Not World Wise but Worldwise

We continue to ask aloud why Strachan has not been deported by ICE to face the music in his native Jamaica. The Statute of Limitations is not a defense, as the fraudster has remained outside the jurisdiction, which tolls the operation of the Statute, in my humble opinion. Justice, obviously has not been served yet; but the story is not over.

Not Strachan's World Wise

DMITRY SHEGUROV, RUSSIAN WHIO VIOLATED US ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT: DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY

NEWS ON BIRTH TOURISM REMINDS US THAT CORRUPT CHINESE AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS EMPLOY IT TO MOVE PROCEEDS OF CRIME INTO USA

News about efforts of the United States Government to curtail so-called "birth tourism, " whereby affluent foreign nationals send their very pregnant wives to stay in America until they give birth, which makes their child a US citizen under our laws, should serve to remind compliance officers that such actions later support the transfer of the proceeds of corruption into America. Most of the individuals arriving in the US specifically to give birth and leave are Chinese and Russian nationals. They are paying up to $80,000 for such services, which include board until birth, medical services, and legal services.

Most are suspected of being the wives of government officials, and they are coming from  two countries known for rampant corruption. Once the "anchor baby" reaches legal maturity, he or she can be a means of facilitating the transfer of the proceeds of their parents' corruption into US bank and securities accounts. Eventually, the corrupt officials themselves acquire Permanent US Residency, which allows them to exit China or Russia before the authorities catch them taking bribes and kickbacks.

Since birth tourism has been going on for decades, compliance officers would be well advised to examine any unusually large accounts of young ethnic Chinese or Russians who are US citizens. Through enhanced due diligence, you can ascertain whether they are the children of senior foreign PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons). Note that some are registered under aliases while attending our colleges and universities to prevent their fellow students from learning that their classmates' father is a human rights violator or murderer or corrupt official. 

Many of the young Chinese students are found to hold substantial financial and real estate assets that they would normally not ever have at their age; others are registered in dodgy school situations where they are not actually attending classes at all, but show up in the educational system. You are urged to take a hard look at your young, affluent clients; you might uncover something you were not aware of.