(L-R) Jeremy Savory, Managing Partner, Savory & Partners, Wilkin-Armbrister, Acting Consul General, Consulate General of St Kitts & Nevis, Dubai, UAE, Mark Brantley Minister of Foreign Affairs. (PRNewsFoto/Savory and Partners)
By Caribbean News Now contributor
DUBAI, UAE — At a meeting in Dubai on Monday with citizenship agents, St Kitts and Nevis foreign minister and premier of Nevis, Mark Brantley, confirmed that local police have launched a full investigation into the use of forged documents in connection with the country’s citizenship by investment programme (CIP).
“Two, evidence-based examples of forgery were brought to the government’s attention. These constitute less than 0.01 percent of the business handled annually by St Kitts and Nevis, yet we have taken the matter very seriously. The police has launched a full investigation, and it is our intention those responsible are brought to justice,” he said.
He offered no further details as to the progress of the investigation, the underlying circumstances of which have been known to the government for at least three months, nor did he provide support for his claim that such incidents of fraud represent “0.01 percent of the business handled annually by St Kitts and Nevis.”
