Kenneth Rijock's Financial Crime Blog
Hard-working, honest Americans, Canadian, British, and European Union citizens dream of owning a piece of paradise for their retirement. Many look at the beautiful island of St. Lucia to make that dream come true. Unfortunately, most of the would-be owners of a nice plot of land in paradise fail to do their homework on the textbook scams that await them on this crime-ridden Caribbean rock.
The fact that numerous media publications are reporting on Saint Lucia's crimes against foreigners visiting that island on vacation should give second thoughts of ever investing their hard-earned money to purchase land there since the properties offered to them are stolen and acquired by the sellers through forgery, embezzlement intimidation, bullying, and death threats made to the actual owners. The British Foreign Office Travel Advisory on St. Lucia warns tourists that most visits to the island are "trouble-free... there have been incidents of crime, including murder, armed robbery, and sexual assault."
It appears that our article exposing major corruption within the present government of St. Lucia may have given investigators additional ammunition from the denial published by the Prime Minister's Office. See the Saint Times-News article Allegations. Allen Chastanet's administration operates on a plan similar to that of a former administration in the United States, where every Cabinet official is for sale if the price is right. More commonly, Allen Chastanet is comparable to the conman and pathological liar type of bluster.
We now refer to our Former President, the same narcissistic individual who duped millions into voting for him under the promise that Mexico would pay for the Southern Border Wall. Allen Chastanet's Border Wall would promise gullible St. Lucians of visa-free travel access to the United States and Canada if he were elected Prime Minister. Unfortunately, after years that Chastanet has remained in office, crime and corruption are still the order of the day in St. Lucia, and most citizens there are still struggling to stay alive.
Remember, this is the same Prime Minister who in 2017 denied that the Minister for Economic Development, the Honorable Guy Joseph, had any connections to the American businessman Antonio Assenza, as reported by the Miami Herald on September 3, 2018, How Plans for a Caribbean Airport were Bungled. Court filings allege a tainted arrangement between a company rum by Assenza and three key St. Lucia Government officials, Guy Joseph. Two teams of four individuals each quietly arrived on the island. They set up shop to gather intelligence on how the criminals operate, under the protection of the Royal St. Lucia Police and Security Forces, as well as government ministers. Implementing their empathetic electronic surveillance skills, the investigators uncovered alarming information, including the fact that the head of the Government of St. Lucia was involved in protecting the criminals' fraudulent conduct.
Within thirty days on the island, the investigation led directly to the notorious and unscrupulous Peter Leroy John of the village of Babonneau, one of the major land thieves and the criminal mastermind of St. Lucia. Mr. John, while projecting legitimate wealth, including showing off his nice home, and maintaining an upscale lifestyle, in truth and fact, is heavily involved in child pornography, gun-running, sex and drug trafficking, land theft, and land sale scams.
More importantly, Mr. John also traffics in counterfeit birth certificates, operates his own Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport program, selling on the black market to Venezuelans, South American drug trafficking kingpins, and probable Middle 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 are either long since deceased or absent from the island for decades. Many admit that they have never signed a deed to John. During numerous telephone intercepts, Mr. John can be calling the names of high-ranking police officials, two government ministers, and officials in the Prime Minister's Office to his business associates.
One government Minister specifically mentioned by John is his collaborator and protector, Guy Joseph, a known fixer on the island, who has been on US Department of Justice radar for several FCPA violations in an ongoing investigation reportedly involving Antonio Assenza of Miami. By all accounts, Saint Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet is linked to the level of crime and murder, which is the day's order on the island. This same corrupt prime minister told his constituents in 2017 that there is no criminal investigation pending into Economic Development Minister Guy Joseph. Chastanet has been known to boast to uninformed St Lucians that he is well connected to the United States Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados.
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