News Analysis
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration just stung a very big fish who allegedly promised to facilitate three tons of Colombian cocaine deliveries every month to the United States.
Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), got caught inspecting a $700,000 bribe in designer shopping bags on a private jet, according to U.S. court papers. He was apparently stacking the drug route, through BVI’s air and marine ports, with his supporters and radar barges that would help slip the shipments through. In exchange, he would get 12 percent of total U.S. sales.
The radars cost $420,000 a month and were opposed by British officials, appointed in London, as a waste of taxpayer money.
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