Crime

'He's a Little Crook Sometimes': BVI Premier and Two Others Caught in Sting Operation to Smuggle Drugs Into U.S., Launder Money

Hours after his arrest, the criminal complaint against Andrew Fahie, premier of the British Virgin Islands began to make the rounds. The 19-page document, filed in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of Florida, lays out the case against Fahie and his co-accused, Oleanvine Maynard, managing director of BVI’s Port Authority and her son Kadeem Maynard. The three are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to launder money and import cocaine into the U.S., based on interactions they had with confidential sources and undercover agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Starting last October, the DEA confidential source reportedly met several times with a group of self-identified members of Hezbollah, an Islamist organization with political and militant wings. According to the affidavit attached to the complaint, these individuals told the DEA source that they could introduce him to senior public officials in the BVI who would facilitate the use of Tortola as a temporary holding area...