Due to accusations that the island's leadership was involved in drug trafficking, the UK is seeking to get the former colony of the British Virgin Islands under its direct control.
A committee of inquiry in London hastily produced a report requesting the UK to seize direct control of the Caribbean territory of the British Virgin Islands, claiming widespread corruption, just before the premier of the British Virgin Islands appeared before a US judge on charges of cocaine smuggling and money laundering.
On Friday, BVI Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie appeared via Zoom before a US federal judge. On Thursday, he and BVI Ports Authority head Oleanvine Pickering Maynard were detained in Miami, Florida. They are accused of drug trafficking and money laundering in a plot allegedly involving Mexican cartels and Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The commission of inquiry chaired by Judge Sir Gary Hickinbottom released its final report just ...
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