Former Barbados Government Minister Found Guilty Of Money Laundering Charges In Us, But An Appeal Is On The Horizon
NEW YORK, United States, Friday
January 17, 2020 A
former politician and a senior minister in the Barbados Government is now
awaiting sentencing in the United States after yesterday being convicted of laundering
bribes paid to him by executives of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados
Limited (ICBL) to secure government contracts.
After two
hours of deliberation at the end of a four-day trial in the Eastern District
Federal Court in New York, a 12-member jury unanimously found former Minister
of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development
Donville Inniss guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering, as well as laundering
US$16,536.73 on April 17, 2015 and US$20,000 on April 18, 2016, through his
friends company in the US.
The
54-year-old Inniss, who is a US legal permanent resident with a home in Tampa,
Florida, remains on bail pending sentencing.
According to the evidence presented at trial, between 2015 and 2016
Inniss took part in a scheme to launder into the US, just over US$36,000
in bribes that he received from high-level executives of ICBL, while
serving as a minister and a Member of Parliament under the previous
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