By David Fischer | Related Press
MIAMI — The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports had been arrested Thursday on drug smuggling prices in South Florida, federal authorities stated.
Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard had been taken into custody by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration brokers at Miami-Opa-locka Govt Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to launder cash, in accordance with a prison criticism. Maynard’s son, Kadeem Maynard, faces the identical modifications within the alleged scheme, in accordance with the information.
Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard had been on the airport to satisfy Mexican drug traffickers, who in actuality had been undercover DEA brokers, to see a cargo of $700,000 in money that BVI officers anticipated to obtain for serving to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Miami and New York, the criticism stated.
A DEA confidential supply had beforehand met with Maynard and her son after being launched by a bunch of self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives, in accordance with the criticism. After Fahie turned concerned, it stated, the BVI officers agreed to to let the smugglers deliver the cocaine via the port at Tortola earlier than persevering with on to the U.S.
Governor Of The British Virgin Islands John Rankin launched an announcement clarifying that Thursday’s arrests in Florida weren't related to a Fee of Inquiry issued final yr within the territory. That investigation was meant to give attention to governance and corruption, not a prison investigation into the unlawful drug commerce, Rankin stated in an announcement posted on-line.
It isn’t identified whether or not the fee had discovered any suspected wrongdoing by Fahie or Maynard, however Rankin stated he expects to have the outcomes printed urgently to keep away from pointless hypothesis.
The British Virgin Islands, with a inhabitants about 35,000 individuals, is a British Abroad Territory within the Caribbean Sea, positioned east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The governor is appointed by the queen, the territory’s final government authority, and acts on her behalf. The premier is the pinnacle of the federal government and is elected in a basic election together with the opposite members of the ruling authorities.
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