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ICBL Bribe Case in Limbo

The following was posted as a comment to BU blog – The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – On the Prevention of Corruption by Peter Lawrence Thompson – David, blogmater From the INNISS indictment:- 3. Barbados Company Executive 1, an individual whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Canada and a resident of Barbados.…

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The following was posted as a comment to BU blog – The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – On the Prevention of Corruption by Peter Lawrence Thompson – David, blogmater

ICBLFrom the INNISS indictment:-

3. Barbados Company Executive 1, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Canada and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 1 was the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of the Barbados Company.
4. Barbados Company Executive 2, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Barbados and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 2 was a senior vice president of the Barbados Company.
5. Barbados Company Executive 3, an individual whose identity is known to
the Grand Jury, was a citizen of Barbados and a resident of Barbados. Barbados Company
Executive 3 was the Chief Financial Officer of the Barbados Company.

Ingrid Innes was the CEO of ICBL in 2015 and there is a reference in the 2016 ICBL Annual Report that she had “resigned from the company.”

Alex Tasker was the Senior Vice President Business Development and Marketing of ICBL in 2015 and 2016 according to the ICBL Annual Reports for those years. His LinkedIn page pointedly omits any reference to his tenure at ICBL and attempts to create the impression that he has been working at Digicel from 2006 to the present.

Kamante Millar was the CFO of ICBL in 2015 and 2016 according to the ICBL Annual Reports for those years. Her LinkedIn page shows that she left ICBL at the end of 2017.

If these are indeed the individuals mentioned in the INNISS indictment, When are they going to be charged in Barbados? The clock is ticking because the DPP has only six months to press charges from August 6th 2018, when the alleged crime came to public notice.

259 responses to “ICBL Bribe Case in Limbo”

  1. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    ” There were no Anunnakis come from above.” I’d imagine some think earth and its inhabitants are the only game in town. WARU, I’m all yours, eyes and all. Simple Simon has lost it.

  2. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    Someone wants to answer why Alex Tasker who is involved in the ICBL Fraud still employed as Digicel Barbados CEO as of today?

  3. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @BUW
    I also see that when Innes “resigned”, she and hubby, plus Young from CIBC and the former Digicel CEO Linehan began Carilend. Musical chairs.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    These are the people behind Carilend?

    Inness?

    Linehan?

    Seriously?

    How can we validate?

  5. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “Simple Simon has lost it.”

    Lol..lol..

  6. John Avatar
    John

    Simple Simon
    September 4, 2018 10:01 PM

    A myth made up by people who can’t get their heads around the FACT, that ALL humanity originated in Africa.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Nonetheless, there are two Contributors, MTA and Bush Tea who earnestly believe they are genetically engineered primates whose ancestors swung in trees!!

  7. John Avatar
    John

    David
    September 5, 2018 2:04 AM

    @NO
    These are the people behind Carilend?
    Inness?
    Linehan?
    Seriously?
    How can we validate?

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100340546

    The ICIJ database is pretty neat!!

  8. John Avatar
    John

    Don’t leave home without it!!

  9. John Avatar
    John

    John
    September 5, 2018 9:24 AM

    Simple Simon
    September 4, 2018 10:01 PM
    A myth made up by people who can’t get their heads around the FACT, that ALL humanity originated in Africa.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Nonetheless, there are two Contributors, MTA and Bush Tea who earnestly believe they are genetically engineered primates whose ancestors swung in trees!!

    ++++++++++++++++++++++

    … and promoted by a third contributor, IG, who seems to hold some sway over their weak brains!!

  10. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    John has one validation. Otherwise, it’s all over the net, no secret.

  11. John Avatar
    John

    Looks like there are a few Linehans!!

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=linehan&c=&j=&e=&commit=Search

  12. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks, too much happening to keep up.

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ John September 5, 2018 9:24 AM

    Are you, by a process of ‘deductive reasoning’, positing that the Garden of Eden was indeed in the womb of Mother Africa?

    If so, you must admit that Adam had to be a black man and not a white man as always portrayed in the European ‘modified’ book of lies and distorted myths.

    If you think seriously about it you must come to the conclusion that it was the albino man (the evolving European) ‘which’ was selected for major genetic modification.

    As a genetic byproduct of such an experiment don’t you feel proud of your ‘more’ advanced technological endowments bestowed by the Anunnakis?

    Leonardo da Vinci’s portrayal of the Vitruvian Man is the ‘perfect’ illustration of the alien origin of mankind.

    Maybe Leonardo himself, the embodiment of ‘human’ technological genius, was the ‘child’ of a descendant of an anunnaki.

    BTW, please don’t place poor Bushie in the same alien pod as the miller unless you suspect that Bushie’s BBE is himself’ the ‘original’ Anunnaki.

    ‘Why not let us make [monkey] man in our own {intellectual} image’!

    “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.”

  14. John Avatar
    John

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/192363/-fight

    The Caribbean response!!!

  15. John Avatar
    John

    They are all a bunch of crooks who have allowed the good names of their countries to be sullied …. black listed/grey listed!!

    Hopefully they will and all go to jail together so they can keep one another’s company!!

  16. John Avatar
    John

    millertheanunnaki
    September 5, 2018 10:09 AM

    @ John September 5, 2018 9:24 AM
    Are you, by a process of ‘deductive reasoning’, positing that the Garden of Eden was indeed in the womb of Mother Africa?
    If so, you must admit that Adam had to be a black man and not a white man as always portrayed in the European ‘modified’ book of lies and distorted myths.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Well it depends you see on whether this was when Africa was a part of the Americas!!

    In which case the Garden of Eden could have been where the White House is today!!

    Trump may be sitting on hugely historically significant real estate.

  17. John Avatar
    John

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/09/04/united-we-stand-2/

    “There is no doubt that we cannot seek to work separately as we seek to attract investment to our countries in a way that undermines each other and hence the need for a common community investment policy and code,” said Mottley, while lamenting that though the code was agreed to some ten years ago, it still had not been implemented.
    “There is no doubt that we need to have our financial services architecture regulated by [CARICOM] Treaty arrangements,” she added.
    Last December, Barbados and four other CARICOM financial centres were blacklisted by the European Union (EU) as tax havens.
    Also included on the EU blacklist, which was issued on December 5 following ten months of investigations by EU officials and affected 17 global states in total, were Grenada, St Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, which like Barbados had expressed surprise and dismay over their inclusion on the dreaded list, as well as the threat of punitive sanctions.
    This led to feverish behind-the-scenes efforts to get the EU to change its mind.

  18. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Unfamiliar waters.

  19. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Is this a moral statement from the woman instrumental in stealing Ross University from Dominica?

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ John September 5, 2018 10:14 AM

    Quite!
    Couldn’t support you more in this ‘moral’ call for justice!

    But are you prepared to ‘out’ the likes of those carrying the title of ‘Sir’ as in Trevor C and Paul Alt who have been major facilitators in the promotion and hosting of many of those tax avoidance vehicles just like how Pornville Inn was instrumental is hosting ‘raw adult’ sites in the ‘underbelly’ of the dark www?

  21. John Avatar
    John

    But are you prepared to ‘out’ the likes of …..

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    No sweat outing people who have destroyed my country’s good name and by extension, mine!!!!

    None whatsoever!!

    …. not that I am any saint myself but this abuse of trust is intolerable!!

  22. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Barbados name is always under attack.

    TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s Barbadian banking subsidiary was “playing with its own money” rather than acting as an active business with outside customers and is obligated to pay tax back home, government lawyers told a Toronto court on Wednesday.

    Barbados-based Glenhuron Bank Ltd. did not meet the requirements to be considered a foreign bank under Canadian law and be exempt from paying tax to the Canada Revenue Agency, Justice Department lawyer Elizabeth Chasson said in her closing arguments at the Tax Court of Canada.

    There is “absolutely nothing” connecting Glenhuron to Barbados, she told Justice Campbell Miller, and the subsidiary was established to avoid paying tax.

  23. John Avatar
    John

    Some joker here had to allow this to happen!!!

    … and then some other joker is going to act all upset when Barbados gets black listed!!!

    The game is up!!!

    The name which an earlier breed of Bajans built up because of their nature is toast!!

  24. John Avatar
    John

    Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s Barbadian banking subsidiary was “playing with its own money” rather than acting as an active business

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Isn’t that why most of the land in Barbados has run to ruin …. it is waiting for people to come along and play their games with money!!!

    Weston and the Stewarts is I believe one more such example.

    The Stewarts for me display the old time hard headed “igrunt” Bajan values.

  25. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “The game is up!!!”

    That is what they can’t see, no matter how many times we blog it…

  26. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Ah wonder which ignorant government minister in which government allowed Loblaws into Barbados to do as they like for years without benefit to the people.

  27. John Avatar
    John

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=glenhuron&c=&j=&e=&commit=Search

    Glenhuron been here since 1992!!!

    DLP days!!!

    One easily identifiable local name is Peter Boos!!

    The name also appears at Appleby!!

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Looks like you are having fun with the database John.

  29. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The leaked files contain more than a thousand records from Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean country that provides no online corporate information and more than 600,000 documents from the online registry of Barbados, which does not list shareholders or directors.(Quote)

    Where is the transparency? Smoke and mirrors.

  30. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    lol..more and more things come out. Loblaws is an extremely wealthy conglomerate…only very foolish ministers in a government would allow them in to benefit more than the country does…foolish people.

  31. John Avatar
    John

    David
    September 5, 2018 3:24 PM

    Looks like you are having fun with the database John.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    For a while ….. longer than you might think!!!

    Learnt from a master!!

  32. John Avatar
    John

    … still learning and learning is fun.

  33. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Also sawJohn Beale’s name there earlier in 2007 I think, the directors started out as foreign people in 1992 and gradually..morphed into a bunch of local players.

  34. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    JA’s like Hal can never understand the concept of a Caricom Single Market and Economy.Unity is still strength.I am a federalist to the bone.Brexit will be the the UK’s undoing.The glory days of a Great Britain will never come back so Tresa may as well throw in the towel.The new kid on the block is China.The Orange turd seeing to that.

  35. John Avatar
    John

    I think each island should go their own way!!

    At the moment, there is a den of thieves in each one.

    Time to get back on track and do the right thing by Barbados!!

    We got to rebuild not only an economy, but a reputation too.

    We don’t want no hangers on to pull us down.

    Sink or swim … but let’s do this on our own!!

  36. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Gabriel,

    Are you OK? Have you had an afternoon nap? I am all for a federation of the West Indies and for a United States of Europe. I have said that a million times in BU. Rubbish me if you want, but please do not mis-represent my views.

  37. John Avatar
    John

    The only thing the countries/islands should come together and do is hire an outside agency to investigate each den of thieves for corruption and jettison any deadweight.

    Replace those members of the den who don’t pass the test and keep testing to weed out the corruption.

    That agency should be completely independent of any of the countries/islands.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    What is the relationship between Leigh Innes and the former CEO of ICBL?

  39. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    No island can go it alone, particularly in these times with Barbados being one of the most vulnerable with the least resources compounded by corruption…and leaders who are intellectually incapable of taking anything to the next level when their first instinct is ALWAYS to sell out.

  40. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    So whatever happened to Dean Del Mastro business scheme to rip off concessions from taxpayers through Donville…Dean is on 14 months probation..ankle braclet arrest is over…but still a convicted criminal.., and now Donville is in ankle bracelets…there goes the saying if you lay with dogs…you too will wear ankle bracelets..lol

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ WARU,

    Del Mastro was convicted of overspending, failing to report a personal contribution of $21,000 he made to his own campaign, and knowingly filing a false report during the 2008 election.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/del-mastro-supreme-court-1.4606301

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Was it not Donville Inniss – his ministry of Commerce- responsible for bringing Del Mastro?

  43. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

  44. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Hants.. yeah…Del Mastro served one month in prison…4 months house arrest inclusive of ankle bracelet and now he is on 14 months probation…still being monitored by a probation officer…he is convicted so he can’t very well do business in Barbados anymore..

  45. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    So after some research, the buzz is that those sir Crooks and QC Thieves titles given out so freely in Barbados to criminals…are not even recognized in UK as carrying any weight or as anything of significancde..the ones in UK are recognized but not the shit titles in the Caribbean…so now that the exposure is live and direct…it has been confirmed that they are just a branding iron to brand thieves..lol

    I kept saying all the false status and fake titles in Barbados with a bunch of idiots with their chests pushed up in the air and their faces and mouths stretched tight were just that…FAKE…and it has been confirmed by the UK no less….murdahhhh..lol!!!!!

  46. John Avatar
    John

    Ok

    So let us link the people we have already to Innes and Inniss and see what comes out.

    Lets allege/assume that she is a money launderer, and Inniss is one too and anyone linked to them is also a money launderer.

    Lineham we could imagine/allege is one too … and by inference since Digicel is linked to Lineham it is reasonable to allege that Digicel is one too.

    Digicel then links to ….. Sir Cow … and Bizzy so it seems logical to allege Sir Cow and Bizzy are in the ling too!!

    Now let us go the Mark Young route and see where that leads us and what allegations we can make.

    Mark Young was at CIBC/FCIB.

    So let us allege this bank is also involved in money laundering!!!

    One of the ways a Bank could launder money is through mortgages!!!

    Mortgages suggest normal everyday run of the mill house owners!!

    House Owners need to have their houses built ….. back at Sir Cow and Bizzy again … and anyone who got a mortgage from FCIB/CIBC!!

    … and then there is Carilend!!

    So, it is possible to allege from the Innes/Inniss link that Digicel, FCIB/CIBC, Sir Cow. Bizzy and the run of the mill house owner who got a mortgage to money laundering.

    … and then we have the allegations from the Stewarts over in sunny England which seem to fit into the whole puzzle rather nicely!!

    Lord have mercy, it is possible to allege that the whole of Barbados seems to be corrupt!!

    Am I mad?

  47. John Avatar
    John

    Sanity check!!

    “Real estate has long been the preferred choice of criminals for hiding ill-gotten gains, and manipulating property prices is one of the oldest known ways to transfer proceeds illegally between parties to a deal. Tax fraud schemes are often closely linked with these activities. The OECD surveyed 18 countries in mid-2006 to look at how widespread these illegal practices are within the real estate sector and explore possible ways to combat them. The main findings confirm that this sector has been used as a conduit for fraud or illicit financial deals in most of the countries surveyed.”

    http://www.oecd.org/ctp/exchange-of-tax-information/42223621.pdf

    Real estate = money laundering!!

  48. John Avatar
    John

    The key findings are as follows:

     In most of the countries surveyed, the real estate sector has been identified as an important sector being used to facilitate tax fraud and money laundering. There are no reported official figures or statistics about the dimension of the problem; one country, Austria, has reported an estimation of the amount of fraud involving the real estate sector of approximately € 70 million.

     The countries reported that the three most common methods and schemes used are: price manipulation (escalating prices make it easier to manipulate prices of properties and transactions), undeclared income / transactions and the use of nominees and/or false identities, and corporations or trusts to hide the identity of the beneficial owners.

     The method of concealing ownership has three main variations: a) onshore acquisitions through offshores companies and/or through a complex structure of ownership; b) unreported acquisition of properties overseas; and c) use of nominees.

     There is no single specific technique or strategy typically employed to identify taxpayers that use the real estate sector to commit tax fraud and money laundering. Traditional techniques based on risk analysis, risk profiling and case selection (with or without data matching or cross-checking information techniques) coexist with other more advanced and contemporary tools such as statistical analysis and data mining.

     Even in those countries with a systematic approach to identifying and detecting suspected cases of money laundering and tax fraud in the real estate sector, there is not always an evaluation of the results achieved, since the totality of the problem is often unknown.

     The report contains a stock-take of red flag indicators used by tax authorities to detect tax fraud and money laundering in the real estate sector and has classified these in four different groups: data discrepancies, individual characteristics and behaviour, financial analysis and document and business operation.  The most common investigation methods have been: targeted and random audits; fraud investigations (that may include undercover operations) and multi-agency operations. Most countries reported that multiagency co-operation was highly important and three basic models have been identified: tax agencies and other law enforcement agencies working in partnership (and sometimes seconding staff); tax agencies and other law enforcement agencies working in parallel; and the model of law enforcement agencies other that tax agencies with exclusive jurisdiction in the predicate offence.

     The strategies implemented by tax authorities to promote tax compliance can be classified into four categories:

    a) Forums and information campaigns organised by the tax administrations; b) Improving sources of information, including new databases of specific information concerning real estate transactions; c) Organizational restructuring in tax administrations e.g. establishing specialized tax teams; and d) Inventories of real estate properties.

    In terms of performance over the last three years, most countries surveyed reported difficulties in measuring the results of their tax administration‟s compliance activities during the period requested. Since most of the projects are in their early stages, it is too early to give comprehensive results. However an indication of amounts at stake is the result of a nationwide project in 2006 by the Irish Revenue focusing on compliance in the construction sector. The project involved 1,615 site visits during which 1,188 unregistered individuals were identified. In addition, 3,872 audits were completed. As a result of the various actions €125million euro was recovered.

  49. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ John the Quaker

    De ole msn has often heard that “man proposes BUT GOD DEPOSES”

    Would you in z thousand years have thought that your friend Charles Herbert of Goddards Enterprises Limited would have been caught with an unknown amount of drugs on his boat? (His or the company’s same difference)

    Or would you have felt that a former minister who ironically was demanding that the other drug importer be licked up WAS SIMILARLY LICKED UP AND NOW CSNT LEAVE MURICA?

    The elements are coalescing in a manner that defies your ken.

    That is the nature if GOD and all of the corrupt do not have a clue about what to do next.

    An American Sam Patten? Just got charged for a $50,000 scam so you comprehend what they going do with a bajan A BLACK BIG MOUF MAN WHO MONEY LAUNDERING?

    So what about all the rest of them?

    And yes your story albeit hypothetical is exactly what we are dealing with.

    Mia Mao ZeJong DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT TO DO.

    She is under the US microscope and is begging for IMF money.

    She can’t be seen as a crook or defender of crooks

    But she knows ghat once she starts this THERE IS NO WAY SHE CAN CONTROL THE WHISTLEBLOWING THAT WILL RESULT.

    IRONICALLY ENOUGH IT IS GOING TO FORCE THE LOCAL CRIMJNALS TO BRING THEIR MONEY TO THE FINANCING TABLE OF FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF A US INVESTIGATION

    Yesiree it is looking good

  50. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item for John the Quaker

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