Pierre Unconcerned Over Impending CIP ‘Bombshell’ Claims

During Monday’s press briefing, one reporter sought to draw to Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre’s attention an allegation made by Phillip Martinez. Martinez and his MSR Media have filed a Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) civil lawsuit in US Federal court alleging wrongdoing in the Citizenship By Investment Programmes in Saint Kitts and Saint Lucia. The reporter alluded to the Saint Lucian prime minister having denied prior knowledge of  Mc Claude Emmanuel, the Chief Executive Officer of Saint Lucia’s CIP, meeting with Martinez in Washington in June, with Martinez suggesting the contrary. “That’s the bombshell?” responded Pierre, referencing recent opposition-related online posts that a bombshell was about to drop about the Martinez CIP saga. “I am saying nothing about CIP so don’t ask me,” Pierre said. The prime minister then went on to say that there was a case in the courts, and if there is evidence, that is where it should be tried. “File everything in the American court, get all the evidence, let the American court disclose and I will take action if the American courts says that any of my ministers committed any fraud. I will take action,” Pierre declared. According to the PM, he would not...