Kenneth Rijock’s first venture into money laundering could almost have come from a B-movie.
He dressed his clients in business suits carrying attache cases full of millions of dollars with a cover story they were inspecting potential factory premises in the British Dependent Territory of Anguilla.
They chartered a small jet from Fort Lauderdale, piloted by a World War Two vet who carried cash but drew the line at drugs.
“The customs officers told us to close our cases quickly in case were spotted,” recalls Mr Rijock, 59.
Then it was off to form bogus companies in a tax haven with 300 banks and a population of 8,000 people at that time.
His contact was prominent lawyer Peter Hendrix – constitutional advisor to Her Majesty’s government in the British Dependent Territory – who over the years held several government posts in neighbouring St Kitts.
“It was like having Henry Kissinger as your personal attorney,” he says.
By Paul Burnell, BBC News. More here.
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