THE CARIBBEAN'S CULTURE OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION DUE TO THE CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT INDUSTRY: WILL THE SOLUTION BE ADOPTED?

As a close observer of the economic passport industry since its birth forty years ago, I continue to be disappointed by what appears to be the fact that its extremely lucrative nature has resulted in systemic corruption, without exception. The money has proven to be too tempting for underpaid government officials operating in dysfunctional local economies without sufficient revenue to even sustain their small governmental budgets. Accepting dodgy CBI applicants who are laundering the proceeds of crime through their application fees, accepting bribes and kickbacks from bad actors with dark agendas, and in essence prostituting themselves on the altar of the US Dollar have become the rule, rather than the exception in the Eastern Caribbean states, without exception.

Now a senior official, at the highest level of the United States government, with direct policy authority from President Trump, has propounded and proposed reform legislation, known as the EASTERN CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT REGULATORY AUTHORITY AGREEMENT ACT. If and when enacted into law by the five EC CBI & CIP states, it will serve to clean up the existing hot mess that is economic citizenship, and it provides reform, with the necessary enforcement tools to do the job.

In truth and in fact, the leadership of the Eastern Caribbean states is desperately trying to sweep it under the rug, as it is an existential threat to the bribe-laden current system, and will turn off the flow of dirty money into their pockets. They are raising the usual smokescreen of national sovereignty, which in the region is often the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Given the position of the current American administration, regarding CBI passports in the hands of foreign, especially Chinese, nationals as a direct National Security threat, and their distinct displeasure with the Caribbean leaders' present love affair with the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba and China, they can expect that their refusal to adopt these reforms with have serious consequences for their constituents, including blocking visas to the US, and even more draconian measures.

If the Caribbean wants to keep their economic passport golden goose, they are well advised to bend the knee to valid American concerns, and adopt the new proposed statutes, without discussion or feeble attempts to delay the matter through negotiation, so as not to provoke an American administration which has demonstrated that, unlike its predecessors, has teeth, and will use them.

CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT STATES IGNORE AMERICA'S PROPOSED REFORM LEGISLATION AT THEIR PERIL, MISREADING THE TEA LEAVES NOTWITHSTANDING THE SEA CHANGE ALREADY IN PROGRESS

If you have read the American government's proposals for reform in the Citizenship by Investment (CBI or CIP)passport sales programs of the five Eastern Caribbean states that sell economic citizenships, you know that they will clean up all the major shortcomings and deficiencies that the existing programs currently display, which have resulted in systemic corruption, defects in due diligence, a complete lack of regulatory controls, and a hijacking of the programs themselves by foreign actors.

The problem is that, not only have the leadership of the five EC CIP states ignored and rejected these complete top-to-bottom legislative reforms, they haven't even shared the detail with their constituents, an act of total arrogance hiding behind self-serving posturing of local sovereignty disguising anti-Americanism fostered by foreign influence.

What these leaders have failed to recognize is that the proposed CBI reform laws are the brainchild of Stephen Miller the American Deputy Chief of State for Policy, and Homeland Security Advisor to President Trump in the White House, and an integral part of the new American foreign policy. Their swift adoption into law is not an option, nor are they subject to negotiation or modification; they are mandatory new legislation, if the programs are to continue.

Failure of the CBI states to reform through these proposed statutes, according to what Mr. Miller has reportedly said, will lead to a blanket block on the issuance of visas to the citizens of all these states, the revocation of existing visas, and a hard look at Caribbean holders with lawful permanent residency status. If West Indians can no longer visit the United States, send their children to American universities, or even drive to conduct business here, there will be immense political, social, economic and even personal consequences for the Caribbean. Remember, these countries import over 90% of their needed consumer goods from the USA.

Additionally, American activities in the region that are not visible have greatly increased. It is humbly submitted that the CBI states of the Eastern Caribbean should understand that the US is not bluffing, and that they should not test American patience on an issue central to the White House. Their present inaction will have existential consequences for Citizenship by Investment as they know it.

A SENIOR LEADER, WANTING TO AVOID A LONG TERM IN AN AMERICAN PRISON, IS OFFERING TO GIVE EVIDENCE ON OTHER CARIBBEAN OFFICIALS

A senior Caribbean government official, whom we cannot identify for obvious reasons, is seeking to secure that valued "Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card," through the rendering of what the United States refers to as Substantial Assistance to the Department of Justice. He asserts that he has first-hand knowledge of criminal activity of a number of sitting Eastern Caribbean leaders, and wants to exchange that for his future freedom. We will remain unidentified here, for the last thing we want is to see some of the Usual Suspects flee to Dubai or Hong Kong, where they would be able to cheat the long arm of justice.

His promised information, which will of course most likely include court testimony, could be a game changer in a Caribbean which is presently infected with corruption and money laundering.The United States could then later relocate him abroad, or place him in the WitSec (witness protection) program, as his personal safety will be in serious danger.

Unfortunately for the bad actors in the Caribbean, the first time they will learn his identity will be when some prominent West Indian government official is in United State custody; stay tuned.

CLAUDIUS FRANCIS THREATENS LITIGATION AFTER BEING EXPOSED IN SAINT LUCIA GENERAL ELECTION FRAUD

CLAUDUIUS FRANCIS

Last Monday, CLAUDIUS FRANCIS, the Speaker of the Saint Lucia House of Assembly, that nation's Parliament, threatened me on his radio program with civil litigation, for exposing his role in systemic election fraud in the 2025 Saint Lucia General Election, and for being a paid intelligence agent of both the Ministry of State Security of the Peoples' Republic of China, and of the Intelligence Directorate of Cuba.

Speaker Francis, I not only do not fear your lawsuit, I welcome it, for should you choose to file a civil action against me, you will be required by the Court to produce documents and information for me, pursuant to the rules of procedure known as Discovery. Additionally, I will then be able to exercise my rights under the laws of the United States, specifically 28 U.S. Code § 1782, entitled Assistance to Foreign and International Tribunals and to Litigants before such Tribunals, and access any and all American bank accounts and assets you and your associates have or had in the past.

I am amazed that you are not familiar with the recent case in Saint Kitts and Nevis, where an American businessman facing bogus litigation there employed §1782 to uncover US bank account information of Kittitians and Lucians involved, like yourself, in money laundering, fraud and corruption. Your lawyers are most certainly aware of that law, which operates to expose incriminating evidence of bad actors abusing a local court system to attack whistleblowers abroad.

Therefore, I cordially invite you, Speaker Francis, to fire away with your civil suit, and may truth to power expose your sins, transgressions and crimes, for all to see.

NIGERIAN FRAUDSTERS AND CRIMINALS OPERATING IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN EMERGE AS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES

Take a close look at all the indicia of an emerging threat in the Eastern Caribbean, coming from criminal elements in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to understand why the United States Government considers the present situation to constitute a National Security threat to America. This week, President Donald Trump banned visits to the United States by Nigerian government officials and leaders.

Consider these facts:

(1) The high profile visit of the corrupt Nigerian President BOLA AHMED TINUBU to Saint Lucia; Tinubu was involved in narcotics trafficking, a highway construction scandal involving his son, and other issues that resulted in his being one of the five finalists in the media contest for Corrupt Person of the year for 2025.

(2) The significant influence, at LIAT and in Antigua & Barbuda, of ALLEN ONYEMA, the CEO of the Nigerian Airline Air Peace, wanted and a fugitive from justice in the USA from Federal charges of money laundering and bank fraud.

(3)The large scale purchase of Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP)passports by Nigerian nationals, and their subsequent criminal involvement in election fraud in National Elections in several states of the region.

(4) The award of visa-free entry into the Eastern Caribbean states of Nigerian nationals. Given that Nigeria has major problems with uncontrolled corruption, runaway money laundering, and rampant white collar crime specifically targeting Americans, the free movement of criminal elements from Nigeria into the region is a direct threat to the United States.

We shall be focusing upon these and other threats originating from Nigeria and targeting the Eastern Caribbean states, as our sources have confirmed significant concern on the part of American law enforcement agencies and governmental organizations.

SAINT LUCIA'S SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT FAILS TO ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE TO A DEBATE OF THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE FRAUDULENT RECENT NATIONAL ELECTION

TO: THE PEOPLE OF SAINT LUCIA

Readers who have read my recent article I CHALLENGE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT CLAUDIUS FRANCIS TO A LIVE DEBATE ON THE ISSUES https://rijock.blogspot.com/2025/12/i-challenge-speaker-of-parliament.html should be advised that Francis has NOT responded to my offer. I will be discussing the issues this afternoon, today 10 December, on the ET Programme, at 5:00 PM, Atlantic Time (4:00PM EST); You are cordially invited.

KENNETH RIJOCK

BILLION DOLLAR FRAUDSTER MEHUL CHOKSI TO BE EXTRADITED, AS BELGIUM'S COURT OF LAST RESORT, THE COURT OF CASSATION, REJECTS HIS APPEAL

MEHUL CHOKSI, who allegedly defrauded India's PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK out of close to the equivalent of two billion dollars, lost his appeal to Belgium's highest court, the Court of Cassation, which rejected his claims and affirmed the previous ruling of the Antwerp Court of Appeal. The court denied his claims of political motivation, and violent forcible removal from Antigua. Choksi must now face charges of embezzlement, forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy.

The Choksi case was a textbook example of how career criminals often use Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports to evade justice; he had obtained an Antiguan passport whilst a known fraudster, and used the illegal cooperation of the leaders of Antigua to delay extradition from that Eastern Caribbean state for several years, with the alleged corrupt assistance of Antigua Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE, who took huge bribes to have the case delayed in the local courts, according to multiple sources inside Antigua. 

Will Choksi now give evidence of systemic corruption in Antigua's Labour government, in an effort to reduce his ultimate sentence? Will PM Browne himself be charged? We cannot say, but we will be watching. India has been waiting for Choksi for years, and justice will be served.

IS FORMER BVI PREMIER ANDREW FAHIE NOW SEEKING A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON?

Our sources are advising  that ANDREW FAHIE, once the Premier of the British Virgin Islands, but now serving a long sentence in Federal Prison for money laundering and drug trafficking, has made overtures to agencies of the United States Government, for the purposes of securing a Presidential Pardon. Fahie has appealed his conviction, but most legal observers, citing the overwhelming evidence introduced against him at trial, and direct testimony of his co-defendants, doubt that the Eleventh Circuit will reverse his guilty verdict. His co-defendants both received sentence reductions after giving cooperative testimony at trial.

FAHIE, whose scheduled Release Date from custody is February 9, 2033, is currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution in Jessup, Georgia. The fact that the former Honduran president, JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ, was able to obtain a pardon from President Donald Trump has led to speculation that Fahie's quest could be successful. We will be closely monitoring Fahie's efforts to secure a pardon, which has heretofore not been publicly reported in the media.

I CHALLENGE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT CLAUDIUS FRANCIS TO A LIVE DEBATE ON THE ISSUES

TO: ST. LUCIA SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT CLAUDIUS FRANCIS:

Claudius, Let’s meet in Trinidad for a live debate in January 2026, responding to the issues presented in your attack upon me on your Facebook television show last night. Claudius, you made one fatal mistake on that program; you attacked me on my past and forgot to mention your phone communications with your Cuban and Chinese handlers . In response to you, Claudius, yes 45 years ago, I was laundering money with AMBASSADOR BILLY HERBERT in Saint Kitts and Nevis and I was convicted; I paid the price for my crimes, But since then, I have worked for U.S. and Canadian Government agencies and major American banks,  helping them in the fight against money laundering. I also have testified twice at the United States Congress on money laundering issues, and several of my proposals ended up in the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. 

Claudius, here is my proposal; let’s meet in Trinidad , to have a live debate there, where we will discuss your phone records between August 9, 2025 to December 2 , 2025, and the allegations of your participation in the Saint Lucia National Election fraud of December 1, 2025. We can also discuss your very inappropriate communications with very young girls. You can bring anyone you want.

We can discuss as well all your communications with your Cuban handler about TRINIDAD & TOBAGO PRIME  MINISTER KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR; Let’s do it Claudius !  In Trinidad any day you want in January, I am sure Trinidad's Prime Minister will be interested to learn what is in the communications you had with your Cuban and Chinese handlers and I shall introduce Kamala directly to my sources in the United States Government, so that they can brief her on the content of your  recorded communications. Let me know if you‘ll show up . 

KENNETH RIJOCK

THE UNIQUE AML/CFT DISADVANTAGES OF EU COMPLIANCE OFFICERS; ARE THERE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS?

I spent some time this weekend with my old mate from World-Check, ROB MITCHELL, of XAPIEN. We jointly lamented the difficult situation facing compliance officers, whose misfortune, for AML purposes, is to work in the European Union, where existing laws favor the money launderer. Whether its the issues about personal information, privacy, the Right to Forget old crimes, or other rules and regulations that allow enterprising laundrymen to get over on compliance officers, I do not envy those brave souls. They are working with one hand tied behind their backs.

I did want to contribute one bright spot, through; Rob detailed for me a number of workarounds that he does to compensate for existing EU legislation, not to violate the laws, but to still get the necessary information. Space will not allow me to cover them all here in depth, so anyone whose curiosity is aroused might want to find Rob here on Linkedin, to learn about them. I am not affiliated with Xapien, but if you are still coming up short with your AML queries, you might want to reach out to him. He's got some pretty good AML/CFT moves; They impressed this old reformed money launderer.

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN SAINT LUCIA BURNED CIP FILES THIS YEAR, AFTER RECEIVING A REQUEST TO INVESTIGATE ELECTION FRAUD

In September, after I made allegations of massive election fraud, during the last General Election in Saint Lucia, a senior Elections Department official sent this request to government, to initiate an investigation, ahead of this year's elections. He never received a reply.

I now have received information, from an eminently reliable source, that Minister of Investment ERNEST HILAIRE and MCCLAUDE EMMANUAL, the CEO of the St. Lucia Citizenship by Investment (CIP) Program, the CIU, had  CIP files, burned, before the recent December election.

TRUMP IS CHANGING GEOPOLITICS IN THE CARIBBEAN

The United States has deployed a very large and powerful military force in the Caribbean; destroyers, amphibious assault ships with US Marines on board, F-35 stealth bombers, and the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS GERALD R. FORD. Ostensibly to rein in narcoterrorists smuggling cocaine into America, in truth and in fact, the military operation is known to be a response to China's increasing influence in the region, with particular attention to its support of the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela.

In the aftermath of a national election in Saint Lucia, rife with allegations of systemic election fraud, the buying of votes, and the illegal computer manipulation of votes already cast to districts where they were needed to assure a universal Labour Party victory, the other sitting Red Labour prime ministers in the Eastern Caribbean, attended the investiture of PHILIP J. PIERRE. We note, as reported by the Trinidad commentator ANIL ROBERTS, that none of them were in attendance when the duly elected non-Labour candidate, DR. GODWIN FRIDAY, was recently installed as PM in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In the mix of the biggest military confrontation, only Kamla Susheila Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad, of all the Caricom leaders, has rendered assistance to the U.S. military operation; all the others are paying homage to Maduro, and his Chinese paymasters.

As we reported in our last article, US. Intelligence agencies are on full alert in the Caribbean and that is how I was informed about the intel on the infamous CLAUDIUS FRANCIS, Speaker of the St. Lucia Parliament, a sworn enemy of the United States, and an agent of China and Cuba.

What has been referred to as the TRUMP COROLLARY to the MONROE DOCTRINE appears to be in motion; Maduro is to be removed from the Venezuelan presidency, through diplomatic, or if necessary, military means. The United States knows that China, Venezuela's benefactor, will not resort to war with the United States, which regards the Caribbean as its sphere of influence.

The message that I have for the leaders of Saint Lucia, whose allegiance is to Maduro, and against the United States: Labour silence and electoral fraud was called by me and others before the election, but it does not matter as Labour won because of the undue Nigerian and Chinese money, and CIP voters, but Trump and Rubio are changing the geopolitical profile of the Caribbean, and Kamala Persad-Bissessar in Trinidad is the big winnner.

CLAUDIUS FRANCIS, THE SPEAKER OF ST. LUCIA'S PARLIAMENT, THREATENS THE LIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF TRINIDAD, FOR COOPERATING WITH AMERICAN COUNTER-DRUG CAMPAIGN IN THE CARIBBEAN

                                                            Speaker Claudius Francis

CLAUDIUS JAMES FRANCIS, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Saint Lucia's Parliament, was recorded, in a telephone conversation, telling his Cuban handler to "deal with" the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, KAMLA PESAD-BISSESSAR, which is a threat upon her life. The Trinidadian PM is cooperating with the United States in its current campaign against narcotics trafficking terrorists in the Caribbean.

Trinidad Prime Minister Pesad-Biessar

Speaker Francis, according to reliable American government sources, is a known paid intelligence agent for the Cuban Intelligence Directorate (G-2), and the Ministry of State Security of he Peoples' Republic of China, making him a National Security threat to the United States. He has been identified as the principal figure behind the massive computer fraud that rigged this week's National Election in Saint Lucia, and resulted in the illegal reelection of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, which is a strong supporter of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, accused of facilitating state-supported narco-terrorism.

Speaker Francis, who directly referred to Kamla unflatteringly as a "bi*h who*re, stated that her assistance to America's counterdrug operations should be dealt with immediately, because her actions were "worse" than the help former PM Eugenia Charles rendered, during the international invasion of Grenada on October 25, 1993.

We call upon Opposition Leader, ALLEN CHASTANET, to immediately call for public release of all Speaker Francis' telephone records, for the period 7 August, 2025, up to and including December 2, 2025. In the event that this information is not released forthwith, we ask that the Opposition Leader immediately request a meeting from the White House, with President Trump. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seeking assistance including but not limited to intelligence sharing, technical assistance in exposing the election computer fraud, and supporting a recount and if necessary, a new election. We recommend that Trinidad's Prime Minister immediately increase her security detail, in light of this information.

THE AMERICAN TRAITOR LES KHAN, A FORMER BANKER WHO MOVED BILLIONS OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDS TO CHINA, NEEDS TO COME HOME

LESLIE KHAN a/k/ Les

Meet LESLIE KHAN, also known as Les, an American citizen and a former Vice President of Bank of America. Khan, who served for years as head of the CBI citizenship sales program at SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, was, more than any other individual, responsible for promoting interests of the People's Republic of China (PRC) being able to illegally dominate Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP), first in St. Kitts, and then in nearby SAINT LUCIA, as he later became the CEO of CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, China's principal actor in the region. He was the central figure in multi- billion dollar Chinese program of fraud, money laundering and corruption that have infected all the Eastern Caribbean states who sold passports which gave dodgy holders visa-free access to the European Union

Galaxy's YING JIN and LES KHAN

Notwithstanding that, under Khan's criminal stewardship, billions of US dollars in application fees which constitute the Proceeds of Crime have passed through American correspondent accounts of Caribbean banks including several at Bank of America,  which resulted in China being able to repatriate several billions of dollars, influence and control the political and economic systems of the EC states, and thereby increase its sphere of colonial power and influence in the Western Hemisphere.  Khan has been working for Chinese interests for years.

Additionally, Khan's corrupt actions allowed China to place millions of dollars of bribe and kickback money into the hands of Eastern Caribbean government leaders, allowing them to continue to be loyal to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, and to China itself. The only good news about this story is that US SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO, knows everything. It's time to come back to America, Mr. Khan.