'Head coach wants to play': The US drug sting that led to BVI premier's arrest

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It reads like some crazy netflix tv show. It involves a vast conspiracy between elected officials and the Premier of the BVI, Colombian cartels, a blackmailing 'fixer' from Senegal, Hezbollah, a long standing UK corruption inquiry, and DEA undercover agents posing as an infamous Mexican cartel. In short we busted a major drug running operation. Still not entirely sure how Hezbollah was involved, but it seems like we had some interesting intel. The major result of all this is the UK is likely to suspend BVI's constitution and directly rule over the country. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/british-virgin-islands-direct-rule-andrew-fahie-drug-arrest

 

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 In mid-October, as Sir Gary Hickinbottom’s commission of inquiry into the government of the British Virgin Islands, led by the premier, Andrew Fahie, was taking laborious public oral evidence for a 44th day, a US Drug Enforcement Administration informant was, according to court papers, meeting some self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives on the BVI island of Tortola to discuss how to shift cocaine through the territory en route to Puerto Rico, Miami and New York.

Hickinbottom was taking mind-numbingly dull evidence on how to apply for BVI citizenship, and whether the process was open to manipulation.

 

The DEA source acting as a Mexican drug-runner, meanwhile, according to the court papers, was setting up a series of meetings that was to conclude with the arrest on Thursday of Fahie onboard a private jet in Miami where he was allegedly being shown designer shopping bags containing $700,000 as payment for the intended storing of 3,000kg of cocaine for four days. The payment was to keep the stash from the inquiring eyes of the port authorities and police, the papers filed in Florida claim.

Fahie is expected to appear in court in Miami on Friday in relation to the charges.

Ironically, the day before, Fahie, unaware that all his meetings were being recorded and videoed, had confided to the person he thought was the Mexican drug-runner – who was in fact a DEA informant – that he “believed in witches and magic and how to read lies in people”, according to the papers.

The contrast between the stately evidence-gathering of the commission of inquiry and the methods of the US police agencies could not be more stark: Yes Minister meets Miami Vice. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/head-coach-wants-play-us-drug-sting-bvi-premier-arrest-andrew-fahie

There's a whole lot more, like potential officials involved that were appointed by The Queen, and vast amounts of people hiding and laundering money in the country. Anyway the indictment is fascinating with stuff like "hey are you a narc?!" "nah man I'm totally not an undercover agent you can trust me" "oh okay! well i'm a really bad guy and I love doing this stuff so give me my money because I need to pay off my fixer that does bad things to my enemies"

 

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Interesting, Y ma'am.  It would be momentous if this leads to suspension of the BVI's constitution.