Total: 50 results found.
... the diplomatic passports sold to foreign nationals by the five East Caribbean States that have Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs owe any duty to the country that issued their passports, the ...
Created on 27 February 2019
It seems that everyone affiliated with the shell companies surrounding Malta's dodgy and now-closed Pilatus Bank is Iranian, but prefers to be known only by whatever CBI passport of convenience they have. ...
Created on 22 February 2019
This week's announcement, from Canada's Scotiabank, that it is selling off its interests in nine East Caribbean states to a Trinidad-based regional bank, was met with dismay by local governmental official ...
Created on 29 November 2018
While we have previously detailed several cases where criminal foreign nationals have easily obtained Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports and diplomatic passports under the current government ...
Created on 05 November 2018
Transparency International, in a white paper entitled Caribbean Golden Visas; Rum Deal for Europe,* has warned the European Union to cancel the current visa-free status for the five East Caribbean states ...
Created on 25 October 2018
As we have repeatedly warned would eventually happen, the European Union, acting through the OECD, has identified the five East Caribbean states with CBI programs, as constituting high-risk schemes. The ...
Created on 18 October 2018
... sentence, you are not alone. The Court ruling, that King's request for a ruling as to whether he has a right of appeal to the Privy Council, from his adverse ruling at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Cour ...
Created on 03 October 2018
... new destination for financial criminals and laundrymen, though he failed to name them. Most observers of the Caribbean offshore financial centre scene believe his reference is to the same five East Caribbea ...
Created on 16 September 2018
Lest you believe that misconduct and crime, in the administration of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs, is limited to those conducted by the East Caribbean states, look at the programs being run ...
Created on 08 September 2018
A senior government official, from one of the five East Caribbean states that are operating Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs, has been engaged in negotiations with a law enforcement agency ...
Created on 23 August 2018
Affluent foreign investors, who have been seeking economic passports through the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programs being operated in five East Caribbean States, are making application there in far ...
Created on 09 July 2018
... from office. First, citizens from East Caribbean states learned that certain of their kind, arriving in the United States, had been subject to extensive questioning, the obvious object of which was to ...
Created on 07 July 2018
... arrangements. Who is in control in specific East Caribbean states, The prime minister and majority party, or the CBI consultancy? The artful use of bribes and kickbacks, and the delivery of clients ha ...
Created on 04 July 2018
... these new regulations. While many in the East Caribbean states may consider these new policies both expensive and time-consuming, it is important to remember that we warned everyone last year that stricter ...
Created on 25 June 2018
... albeit hidden, forces in the East Caribbean, devoted to the pursuit of a hidden financial agenda. That agenda is to divert potential affluent foreign investors from certain CBI programs, and toward other ...
Created on 10 June 2018
... of late, but there is a more serious problem that the five East Caribbean CBI states are facing: the threat of criminal prosecution, by the US Department of Justice, for violations of money laundering ...
Created on 19 May 2018
The five East Caribbean States, St Kitts. Antigua, Dominica, St Lucia & Grenada, are all suspect in the eyes of the global compliance community, due to the uneven, and sometimes even absent, amount of ...
Created on 15 May 2018
Three of the East Caribbean states that offer Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs to foreign nationals, after seeing that the Due Diligence investigations performed upon their applicants were ineffective, ...
Created on 01 May 2018
Media reports from the Middle East tell us that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is in the process of cancelling a large number of Jordanian passports, which were issued, as a "courtesy," to most of th ...
Created on 26 April 2018
The incestuous relationship between CBI consultancies, and the officials who head the Citizenship by investment Units in the five East Caribbean States, which include the payment of substantial bribes ...
Created on 26 April 2018
... revoked. The scheme involved securing local East Caribbean girls to marry terrorist agents from the Middle East, thereafter obtaining Grenadian citizenship. Ehsan married a local for this purpose. It ...
Created on 26 April 2018
... of welcome news, as many of the East Caribbean States, and Antigua and Grenada in particular, have wallowed in what can only be referred to as systemic corruption, and the presence of British diplomats ...
Created on 21 April 2018
Rather than reform their programs, the majority of the five CBI East Caribbean States continue to improperly vet applicants from high-risk jurisdictions, and jurisdictions known to be State Sponsors of ...
Created on 09 April 2018
The vetting of applicants for Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passports, in the five East Caribbean, states that operate such programs, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia and Grenada, ...
Created on 06 April 2018
... all the East Caribbean states with active Citizenship by Investment programs. Canada is unable to determine who is or is not a CBI passport holder. This action is due to the agency's concerns about th ...
Created on 02 April 2018
The recent lopsided victory, in Grenada, that returned the incumbent government to office, was just the latest in a string of national elections in the English-speaking countries of the East Caribbean. ...
Created on 22 March 2018
The rampant corruption poisoning the East Caribbean republics, including but not limited to million dollars "incentive payments," kickbacks from Middle Eastern-based CBI developers, cash payments for illega ...
Created on 20 March 2018
Will the Fire Sale in CBI passports, offered by five Eastern Caribbean republics, who have reduced their prices in the aftermath of last year's hurricane, allow still more career criminals, terrorists ...
Created on 16 March 2018
Will the Fire Sale in CBI passports, offered by five Eastern Caribbean republics, who have reduced their prices in the aftermath of last year's hurricane, allow still more career criminals, terrorists ...
Created on 01 March 2018
Reliable reports from the English-speaking republics of the East Caribbean have confirmed that a number of East Caribbean financial institutions have very recently started refusing to accept customers' ...
Created on 26 February 2018
... Peoples' Republic of China, you can expect that similar methods will be employed in 2018 or 2019. Given China's expanded presence in the English-speaking republics of the East Caribbean, with unusual ...
Created on 22 February 2018
... program throughout the Caribbean. Unemployed and penniless youth in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, and other East Caribbean nations are clothed, given money, converted, trained, assiste ...
Created on 14 February 2018
If you are a wealthy businessman, living in the Middle East, the Peoples' Republic of China, or Russia, and the international CBI consultancy firm you are working with tells you that you might also acquire ...
Created on 13 February 2018
The threats posed by Middle Eastern terrorist organizations are worldwide in scope, and it is necessary to be watchful of any developments which might indicate that Specially Designated Global Terrorist ...
Created on 26 December 2017
It is being reported that customs & immigration officers in the United States and Canada are detaining holders of CBI and Diplomatic passports from the East Caribbean countries participating in Citizenship ...
Created on 06 December 2017
... in the East Caribbean. Given that there is presently virtually no tourism between the two nations, nor any international trade of note, a new Chinese Embassy in St Kitts could serve as a center for the ...
Created on 18 May 2017
A Kleptocracy is refined as a country where those in power exploit national resources, and steal them, for their own personal gain, thus depriving the people of their own country of their country's assets. ...
Created on 09 May 2017
The right of peaceable assembly may be one of the cherished rights of the English-speaking countries, but this week it was abolished in a country that must now be regarded as a former democracy, now rapidly ...
Created on 25 April 2017
When the nations of the East Caribbean issue passports to Iranian nationals, only to gain clearly excessive fees, not all of which have been accounted for, the United States, and indeed the free world, ...
Created on 05 February 2017
... on an Agreed Court Order of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and today (Jan9) an order of Antigua's High Court. The bank's former CEO and Chairman , BRIAN STEWART-YOUNG, is also adjudicated individual ...
Created on 11 January 2023
... e Eastern terrorists, all of whom can afford to pay his inflated prices. It should be duly noted that, in all of Mr. John's land sales, all their individuals that he claims have sold him the properties ...
Created on 17 March 2021
... ly first-hand information and evidence on European and Middle Eastern targets. The information, which is said to specifically include money laundering as well as other financial crimes, will be offered ...
Created on 27 December 2020
... use of banks in the East Caribbean states for the laundering of the proceeds of Venezuelan corruption. Allegations of Saab's use of Caribbean banks to transfer the proceeds of crime to Panama and into the U ...
Created on 14 June 2020
... Grenada, stating that they were interested in real estate development on the island. Though Grenada has a functional economy, unlike many other East Caribbean states, their overtures were immediately accepte ...
Created on 07 March 2020
... is desperately trying to distance itself from the scandal. Saab is a Colombian national of Middle Eastern extraction; in fact, when his accountant and auditor were arrested in Colombia, and Saab was a ...
Created on 30 July 2019
An affidavit, prepared by a law enforcement investigator in the State of New York, and filed in the Federal criminal case against Iranian banker Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, the accused principal money launderer ...
Created on 01 March 2019
... es. Unfortunately for PM Browne, he is ignoring the fact that, while the sale to Republic is subject to regulatory approval, the regulatory agency that has jurisdiction is the East Caribbean Central ...
Created on 20 December 2018
... y to accept their offer to enter into negotiations to sell to locals. First of all, Scotiabank has already signed an agreement to sell all its East Caribbean facilities to Republic Bank, of Trinidad & Tobag ...
Created on 17 December 2018
Compliance officers often troll Internet news sites for information, when conducting enhanced due diligence investigations, but when it comes to East Caribbean news websites, the stories you see are often ...
Created on 08 December 2018
... This is an important issue if you are following the widespread sale of diplomatic passports, for cash, by the East Caribbean states, to dodgy purchasers, so that they can use them to facilitate criminal ...
Created on 15 November 2018