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The following is my recollection of what transpired and personal experiences during our stay on the beautiful Island of St. Lucia
ReplyDeleteTwo of my colleagues and I flew down to your island on June 16, 2008, after receiving information from reputable and confidential sources in Washington DC, with firsthand knowledge of what appears to be systematic patterns of fraudulent land stealing scams, by several persons in conjunction with a handful of sleazy lawyers, supported by corrupt land registry employees and members of your island’s judiciary.
The objective of our trip was to interview several parties who apparently had fallen victim to two known con artists, Leroy John and his brother Winston John, from the village of La Croix Chaubourg/ Babonneau.
We spoke to several persons who were quite knowledgeable to the John brother’s scam, and in fact we made several attempts to interview the Johns on June 17, to no avail.
On June 18 2008, we attempted again to make contact with Mr. Leroy John and he agreed to meet with us at his residence that afternoon. Upon arrival, we were asked to wait outside by a young lady who said her father would join us shortly. To our surprise, two black men wearing military style camouflage, exited Mr. John’s residence and walked toward us in an intimidating and confrontational manner. One of the men wearing dark sunglasses with no name tag on his uniform, told us he was with the police and was here to warn us about interfering with issues that “was not our concern and we should leave the island immediately if we did not want to end up sleeping with the fish”.
He demanded to see our passports which we told him had been accidently left at the hotel. He threatened us with arrests if we did not leave the island within 24 hours.
Based on the information we were able to gather during our short stay on that lovely island, we are convinced that this story warrants an in depth investigation to expose what appears to be a well organized gang of land swindlers operating with complete impunity from the island’s criminal justice system