Millar told the court that in August 2015, she attended a meeting with former chief executive officer (CEO) of ICBL Ingrid Innes and former senior vice-president with responsibility for business development and marketing Alex Tasker.
Following that meeting, she said Innes instructed her to make “an urgent payment” of a referral bonus to Inniss.
She said she was uncomfortable with the request made by Innes as he was “politically exposed” and she enquired if she Innes had cleared such a transaction with the company’s chairman John Wight, to which Innes responded, “It’s fine”.
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@Sargeant
So the executives from the ICBL parent company threw Innes and Tasker under the bus with Donville and paid a fine in order to escape corporate culpability.
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“The Justice Department last year charged ICBL’s former chief executive officer, Ingrid Innes, and its former senior vice president, Alex Tasker, who prosecutors said acted as Mr. Inniss’ co-conspirators. The two remain at large, a spokesman for the department said.
Ronald DeWaard, a lawyer for Ms. Innes, didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Mr. Tasker couldn’t be reached for comment.”
_xxxxxxxxxALEX TASKER WE LOOKING FOR YOU WEARING STAINLESS STEEL BRACELETS.
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@ Artax January 17, 2020 10:37 AM
“Anyhow, when “people are at times arrested for loitering” or (2) “randomly stopped and searched without complaint,” occurs when the police OBSERVE people who gave them probable cause to believe they have committed a crime or are about to commit a crime.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++How then do you explain the basis for investigation from tips via the Crimsstoppers hotline?
Who are the “observers” and “complaints” under that scenario of crimefighting?
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SargeantJanuary 17, 2020 10:45 AM
@PLT
“I was thinking about the executives from the parent company not the local ICBL executives, of course everyone knows that Innes and Tasker have to face the music if they enter any US jurisdiction.”
For what?
i have nothing in the entire scenario to indicate that they have stolen money from the ICBL or have been charged for so doing. Their positions empowered them to authorise payments as they see fit right or wrong and if in breach of Company’s policies would be subject to sanction by the company.whether the breach involves all in in the police or dismissal. The decisions to use their authority were not done in secret. -
“Former Chief Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Barbadian Insurance Company Charged with Laundering Bribes to Former Minister of Industry of Barbados
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Ingrid Innes, the former chief executive officer, and Alex Tasker, a former senior vice president of Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL), a Barbados-based insurance company, were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed on January 18, 2019, with laundering bribes to the former Minister of Industry of Barbados in exchange for his assistance in securing government contracts for ICBL. Innes and Tasker are not in U.S. custody.Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), announced the charges.
Innes and Tasker were charged with one count of conspiracy to launder money and two counts of money laundering in the superseding indictment. The former Minister of Industry of Barbados, Donville Inniss, a U.S. legal permanent resident who resided in Tampa, Florida, and Barbados, was charged with the same crimes in an indictment unsealed on August 6, 2018, and as a co-defendant of Innes and Tasker in the superseding indictment. Inniss is scheduled for trial on June 24, 2019, before United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto.
The superseding indictment alleges that in 2015 and 2016, Innes and Tasker participated in a scheme to launder into the United States approximately $36,000 in bribes that they paid to Inniss, who at the time was a member of the Parliament of Barbados and the Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development of Barbados.
The charges in the superseding indictment are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”
The gist of the story makes no sense based on this statement that
“The charges in the superseding indictment are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”
Am i to understand that the DOJ of the USA can charge Barbadians for alleged crimes committed in Barbados and what makes the funds transmitted to the USA dirty money if no one was charged for a crime in relation to the same money. Money withheld from accused in relation to drug cases has to be returned if the accused are found not guilty.
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Lots of jokes….liar, liar, liar, liar…Fruendel is on fire..
they have no damn shame, should all be imprisoned.
https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stewart.965/videos/1228099310732939/?t=0
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NorthernObserverJanuary 16, 2020 5:37 PM
Where did all this begin?
Didn’t the ICBL parent co. make some admission to US authorities, and pay a fine, to ostensibly cover their own a**. And in so doing, opened the can of worms.
As such, subsequent events were “laid on a platter” for authorities, they didn’t require months of digging.peterlawrencethompsonJanuary 17, 2020 11:26 AM
@Sargeant
So the executives from the ICBL parent company threw Innes and Tasker under the bus with Donville and paid a fine in order to escape corporate culpability.
This answers all those questions from inquiring minds as to why US authorities would waste resources pursuing DI. They didn’t have to. ICBL parent, scared of repercussions when they discovered the payments from THEIR accounts, not the ICBL subsidiary cheque book, sought to protect themselves.
If ICBL had paid the monies in $Bds to a Barbadian account, this matter would never have seen the light of day.
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if he was charged with those crimes in barbados, it would never reach the courts, lots of politicians and lawyers get away with crimes daily, but it often sweep under the rug. If he got charged with those crimes then I think he will be jailed for some time, and his green card taken.
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Many former ministers and other blue grandees will now have to give up their holidays in the USA or Canada for a very long time.
Let me ask Enuff a question: Who was the Barbadian lawyer certifying in New York that Donville and his helpers had committed a crime in Barbados under our local laws?
That is an interesting question, isn’t it?
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@ Enuff January 17, 2020 11:09 AM
When you talk about slander here, the two crazy youtubers that WARU worships so idolatrously come to mind.
If they enter Barbados, it will no longer be a case for the civil courts. They must be arrested immediately at the airport at passport control and sentenced to 20 years penal labour for treason.
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Spreading the joy..
Start by locking up the crooked, tiefing minorities.We all remember this dont we. This one croaked in 2014 but they always find more and more to help them commit crimes on the island.
“Gary Morse was using Wells Fargo to send tens of millions of dollars through FCIB for the Port Ferdinand development at Six Mens and was caught by the IRS.”
Northern…they were trying to side step the delisting and eyes that were watching Caribbean banks, remember lots of banks were pulling out around that time…eyes were on them, so big and bold Inniss thought that he would not have a problem as a US resident, but he did not realize that eyes were all around anyway, and ICBL still has employees who do due diligence.
also around that time there was pressure to implement anti-money laundering legislation and you already know how these too love to procrastinate when it’s anything to do with upgrading the laws that will STOP THEM FROM BREAKING THE LAWS..
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Can we stay focused on the topic?
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they were trying to side step the DERISKING and eyes that were watching Caribbean bank..s
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The intervention from Tony Best the Nation newspaper correspondent is interesting. The prosecution was successful at the discussion/discovery stage in preventing Inniss from widening the matter to include calling witnesses from Barbados that would have cast negatives on others in Barbados read Inniss’ behaviour is the norm in Barbados among the political class.
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@ Silly Woman January 17, 2020 7:34 AM
““WELCOME TO AMERICA, WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN WAY.”
There is no need to rub salt into Donville’s wounds.
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“Insurance Corporation of Barbados, which allegedly bribed former Cabinet minister Donville Inniss to secure contracts, possibly made illegal payments to other “Government officials”, say prosecutors in the United States.
Prosecutors are contending they have evidence to support the allegation but don’t plan to present it when Inniss faces a Brooklyn, New York judge and jury in October.”
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“Not all! Some are embittered and have zero interest in facts. When somebody lose dem house through the courts we will become more careful about what we post.”
Although you are correct, you must bear in mind that some people may have good intentions, but go about doing things the wrong way, which, in the long-run, causes the authenticity of the information they present and their credibility to come more and more under scrutiny.
This is one of the reasons why I don’t watch certain videos or accept as gospel. certain information posted to this forum, without investigating further or asking the relevant questions.
For example, look at how certain people were quick to draw a correlation between Fulcrum Chambers Ltd. and a merger between Fulcrum Group and Butterfield Fund Services…… to imply corruption. Supposed their post remained on FB, without anyone seeking to clarify the issue?
They would use the number of people who were misled into believing there was some element of corruption, as a benchmark to indicate some imagined success in fulfilling the agenda they initially set out to achieve.
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Wuhloss…Barbados hot Enuff. Any hotter and ya will see flames.
“Insurance Corporation of Barbados, which allegedly bribed former Cabinet minister Donville Inniss to secure contracts, possibly made illegal payments to other “Government officials”, say prosecutors in the United States.”
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lawd me gawd…wait until the other shoe DROPS…
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in today’s Nation the article refers to the US prosecutor going through Barbados law to explain Inniss also broke local law.
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@ David January 17, 2020 1:46 PM
The Don is lucky he has not been charged for tax evasion. Being a permanent resident he ought to declare to the IRS all incomes received in the USA (for sure).
Did the Don declare that $36 grand in the tax years they were received into his account?
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@ David January 17, 2020 4:47 PM
It is obvious, innit!
Any half-decent uncompromised lawyer (even graduates of the UWI) would come to the same conclusion.
What is more staring is the fact that he committed these acts of fraud while holding the position as a minister of the Crown sworn to uphold the good governance of Barbados.
The chubby jumped-up guy had real chutzpah.
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@ Charles Skeete
YOU CAN PAINT IT ANYWAY YOU WANT IT ALEX TASKER IS A FUCKING CRIMINAL WHO BRIBED A BAJAN POLITICIAN I AM SURE NOT HIS FIRST OR LAST.
YOU NEED TO CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR WHOLE AND STOP SHOWING YOUR ASS.
OLD IGNORANT BAJANS LIKE YOU EMBEDDED IN THE SYSTEM IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE ISLAND IS SO FUCKED UP.
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For what?
i have nothing in the entire scenario to indicate that they have stolen money from the ICBL or have been charged for so doing. Their positions empowered them to authorise payments as they see fit right or wrong and if in breach of Company’s policies would be subject to sanction by the company.whether the breach involves all in in the police or dismissal. The decisions to use their authority were not done in secret
XxxxxxxxxxxxxONLY SOMEONE WHO IS PART OF THE DISHONESTY IN BARBADOS COULD MAKE THE ABOVE COMMENT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT BRIBERY AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IS?
OR HAVE YOU BEEN PART OF IT SO LONG YOU HAVE LOSTED TOUCH WITH REALITY.
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Watch them all run fuh cover
Word out
Donville gonna have his say in a tell all book -
Tell all book is good, but a deal is much, much better…ensures they get some old barge, pack them all in it…and tow it ALL THE WAY TO US….
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Hants
January 17, 2020 3:19 PMTranslated. They will get that person when that person passes through.
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The US authorities will prosecute under money laundering laws. The reference by them was to bribing behaviour rampant among the political class. We need to fix our problems.
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@ Mariposa January 17, 2020 7:17 PM
Have his say to expose his ‘fair weather’ friends to the elements of vilification?
Girl, you really want to see the MAM administration fall to pieces, don’t you?
Who would be the protagonists in his ‘tell all’ tales?
Would it be the Stinky Sinliar, the Sharkmout fella called the taller Lashes and the lowedown sicko who said, like you, that MAM is Not qualified to practise law in Barbados without her LEC to mislead fools like you?
The amount of telling by this fallen evil angel of pure greed and corruption will need at least 2 volumes to cover the duopoly of infelicities.
Why go down alone on the sinking DLP ship?
Since his ambition to become the PM has been torpedoed to high heavens why not ‘grass’ on those politicos who are in bed not only with one another but also with the lords of the underworld involved in the drugs and guns business?
He can have the book endorsed by the pretend Rev. Joe the stop-gap LoO wearing a dog collar
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Miller u sound very nervous
I know you were the boot carry for OSA always ready and able to shine his boots
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@ Mariposa January 17, 2020 8:56 PM
Ac, since he took up his new posts as the shoe-shine-boy-in-chief to both MMs and the bag carrier to Browne he fired the uppity miller for stepping too hard on his toes.
Do you want to apply for the job to become Donville’s cellmate? But you would have to take your own lubricant to ease the pain of anal confinement.
BTW, how come we don’t ever hear you singing the praises of Verla de P?
Is it because you don’t fancy her or are you waiting for the return of the DLP messiah called Stinkliar? -
No. Rather not like to be either a shoe shine boy or cell mate
But would gladly helped in meking sure that Donville book get on the best sellers list
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@ David.
I have been watching and reading how this whole thing is unfolding and it’s becoming more embarrassing for our divine leaders by the hour.
You have the US pointing out how even under EXISTING BAJAN LAWS The Don was guilty. At the same time you have our AG saying that as a result of not having our integrity legislation in place, nothing could be done about laying charges locally against him.
So am I to conclude that the US are better versed in our local laws and their application than our own AG?
Then you got clear evidence of Tasker and company clearly breaching the law and here on the rock not a single charge been laid against them either.
I got to tell you the more this matter unfolds the more of a joke it is becoming. Who say crime dont pay? It look like once you commit the crime here it not only pays well but goes unchallenged !
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@John A
The lack of will to prosecute local ICBL officials has more to do with the fact it is a significant provider of insurance services to government and the challenges it would pose.
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Out of this whole fiasco dominoes gonna fall and walls gonna crumble
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DavidJanuary 17, 2020 10:18 PM
@John A
The lack of will to prosecute local ICBL officials has more to do with the fact it is a significant provider of insurance services to government and the challenges it would pose.
Protectionism is the true factor
The truth would come out and govt does not want to take such high a risk
Small fry Donville was enough to send a message
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@ David.
Yes sir you have hit the nail on the head. If one started digging God knows what under the rocks hiding in ICBL garden.
Anyhow I voted for transparency and accountability, so I expect to see it practiced and honoured now. At the very least the entire board of ICBL should be forced by the shareholders to resign. Had this of happened in the said USA, every board member would have been forced to resign at an extraordinary held shareholders meeting.
You hear a date set for such a meeting here yet? Nor will it ever be.
In the meantime I await further embarrassment to undoubtedly unfold.
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AG Dale Marshall now finds himself in an awkward situation, ironically his predecessor is an actor in the scenario playing out.
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It seems we are at a critical juncture in this whole thing. It’s now at the point where this government will have to prove that it will either stand by its election promise of stamping out corruption, or just leave us to conclude that it was all an election gimmick.
The US Court has led us to the proverbial water, only time will tell us if the local authorities got the backbone to drink from it.
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Even though I recoiled when Donville lighted into Mia Mottley on the floor of the House during the early days of the DLP first term…….”we don’t want to hear nothing from wunnah, wunnah had wunnah time, now is we time and we gine do things we way, keep wunnah ideas to wunnah selves”…….I still feel sorry for him.
They certainly did things their way……I heard of one minister denying a hardcore dem supporter a contract asking the person if he could give him a million dollars from the project….the contract went to one of the greedy white men that had their tentacles into the weaklings that were ministers.
Donville was the brightest of dem and ended up in trouble. If only they had listened, he would not be in the position he is in tonight.
I do feel sorry for him as his sister is a close friend of one of my relatives and she is a good lady.
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Ex-congressman Chris Collins sentenced to 2 years on insider-trading, false-statements charges
EW YORK — A federal judge on Friday sentenced former congressman Chris Collins to 26 months in prison for his part in an insider-trading scheme and lying to the FBI.
“You had a duty to meet and you betrayed that duty,” U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick said as he handed down the sentence.
Collins tearfully apologized to his family and his constituents, acknowledging that he tipped off his son to confidential information that a small Australian biotechnology company’s new therapy for multiple sclerosis had failed a critical clinical trial. Collins’s son and several others used the information to avoid more than $700,000 in losses. Collins also admitted that he later lied to the FBI about the incident.
“I stand here today a disgraced former congressman,” said Collins, who was one of President Trump’s first supporters in Congress. “I cannot face my constituents. What I have done has marked me for life.”
Collins said he particularly regretted the impact the case would have on his son, who is scheduled to be sentenced next week. “I have destroyed the reputation of my son,” he said.
Collins’s attorneys cited his age, 69, years of public service and track record as a businessman who saved hundreds of jobs in New York in asking Broderick to sentence Collins to probation, home detention and community service. But prosecutors asked for a much longer sentence, 46 to 57 months in prison, arguing that the New York Republican had violated a public trust and that the loss of status and money was not enough of a penalty.
After a more-than-three-hour hearing, Broderick said Collins was “highly unlikely to be a recidivist” but that he still considered the former congressman’s crime significant. Insider trading creates the perception for investors that the financial markets are rigged, he said.
Broderick received more than 100 letters of support for Collins, including from former Republican speaker of the House John A. Boehner, Collins’s family and former business associates. Others, including some former constituents, sent angry letters calling for a tough sentence.
Broderick sentenced Collins to 26 months each for two counts: conspiracy to commit securities fraud and making false statements. The sentences are to run concurrently. Collins was also fined $200,000.
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Why did the US DOJ investigate and prosecute a former Barbados government minister for a $32.000 fraud ?
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@Hants
read….peterlawrencethompsonJanuary 17, 2020 11:22 AM
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@ Robert L:
There is no need to rub salt into Donville Inniss’ wounds.
Agreed, insofar as Justice will be served one way or the other.
Law operates in context. I said earlier that in a context where Trump’s personal lawyer (Michael Cohen) sits in jail, where his former campaign manager (Paul Manafort) also sits in jail, where his personal attorney (Rudolph Giuliani) is under serious investigation by the SDNY and is legally exposed, not to mention other Trump supporters who have been convicted and imprisoned, then DI was seriously exposed in the prevailing climate.
It may well be that barring something exceptional, any appeal appears fatally doomed. A dead letter.
Mr. Inniss will simply have to live with the consequences of his tragic choices.
At this juncture, it may well be that his legal advisors should focus their efforts on mitigation, including whatever supporting witnesses and evidence they can muster. At the same time, in their mitigation, they will also have to be prepared to meet any other derogatory allegations, whether relevant or not, the Prosecution and the Court having been made aware of the latter.
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PS:
The DOJ is also engaged in messaging … like the Brits VI’s-a-vis Dr. Denzil Douglas – let so-called “third world” government officials and ministers know that Uncle Sam can seek to jail you for your petty corruption as opposed to the greater Madoff-Ian corruption here.
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A house negro is always ready to celebrate the demise of another black person whether innocent/ guilty. House negroes are always ready to pardon / forgive the white man for any crimes that he committed, see the evidence below.
• The British mercenary Simon Mann, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Equatorial Guinea last year for plotting to overthrow the oil-rich country’s government, has been granted a presidential pardon.
• Simon Mann, the Eton-educated mercenary who was imprisoned for plotting a coup in west Africa, called for Mark Thatcher( son of Margaret Thatcher) to “face justice” over his alleged involvement in the ill-fated conspiracy.
• SOUTH AFRICA: The son of former British prime minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher left South Africa a free man last night after agreeing to pay a £265,000 (€385,000) fine for his role in a coup plot which could have landed him in jail for 15 years.
• Sir Mark Thatcher flew to London and was thought to be bound for the United States to join his wife and two children after pleading guilty to funding an attempt by mercenaries to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Most western multinational corporations & are corrupt & use bribery to gain contracts. Most of the major Banks in the USA & Europe are engaged in money laundering but bank exec never go to jail.
• Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA face additional corruption allegations over a Nigerian oil deal, after the West African country’s government said in a London lawsuit that it believes a handful of executives, including CEOs, were tied to more than $1 billion in bribery payments.
• The government of Nigeria is suing the biggest U.S. bank, arguing that oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and the Italian company Eni paid 1.1 billion dollars to allegedly corrupt Nigerian officials in 2011 for a license to drill in a hugely rich offshore oil block—and that JPMorgan ought to have blocked the deposits.
On Tuesday, a U.K. court rejected JPMorgan’s appeal to dismiss the case, ruling unanimously that Nigeria had the right to sue the investment bank in an attempt to wrest back the money.• All of Europe’s top 10 banks and 18 of top 20 have been fined for money laundering offences in the past decade. NCA says the £150 billion laundered annually in the UK represents “a very big problem”.
• London-based banking group HSBC laundered billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels, and violated sanctions by covertly doing business with pariah states. HSBC also helped a Saudi bank with links to Al Qaeda transfer money into the United States.Stuart Gulliver, the bank’s C.E.O., said that he was “profoundly sorry.” No executives or employees were prosecuted for trafficking in dirty money. Instead, HSBC pledged to clean up its institutional culture, and to pay a fine of nearly two billion dollars: a penalty that sounded hefty but was only the equivalent of four weeks’ profit for the bank.
• Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump grumbled to his secretary of state about a decades-old US law that bars American companies from bribing foreign officials and pledged to repeal it — which, incidentally, would make it easier for his company to get lucrative contracts abroad.
• “It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,” Trump reportedly told Tillerson. “We’re going to change that.” -
It is possible Inniss will not have to do jail time. Certain assurances may already have been secured.
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Jail time or no jail time Donville has suffered the ultimate defeat in criminal terms convicted of money laundering and a definite derogation of his character
However there is always roads which he can travel for redemption of his souls which can shed light on what occurs in the underbelly of politics in barbados by writing a tell all book
Being the one person now used as a poster child in Barbados for money laundering he needs to pursue any legal avenue which would serve purpose towards his redemption
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