St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris (L) with Citizenship by Investment Unit CEO Les Khan
BASSETERRE, St Kitts — In his budget presentation in parliament last week, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris touched upon the abuses recently uncovered in the country’s citizenship by investment programme (CIP), including allegations of forgery and fraud, but offered no substantive detail and, predictably, blamed unnamed “aggrieved parties with personal vendettas” for recent efforts “to scandalize the programme”.
The St Kitts and Nevis government has so far failed to act decisively against the perpetrators of discounted citizenship schemes and forged letters. Marketing agents in the Middle East are continuing to offer unauthorised cut-price St Kitts and Nevis citizenships, despite a half-hearted warning (with insufficient sanctions) from the government’s Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) that it may clamp down on offenders.
