MIAMI (AP) – The British Prime Minister of the Virgin Islands and the director of Caribbean ports were arrested Thursday in South Florida on drug trafficking charges, federal officials said.
According to a criminal complaint, Prime Minister Alturo Fahi and Chief Executive Officer Olevin Maynard were arrested by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents at the Miami-Opa-Loka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to smuggle cocaine and money laundering. of money. According to records, Maynard’s son, Cadim Maynard, is facing the same changes in the scheme.
Fahi and Oleanwin Maynard were at the airport to meet with Mexican drug traffickers who were actually DEA secret agents to find the $ 700,000 cash that BVI officials expected to help with cocaine from Colombia to Miami and New York. In York, officials said in the complaint.
According to the complaint, a confidential DEA source previously met Maynard and his son after meeting with a group of self-styled Lebanese Hezbollah agents. After Fahi was involved, BVI officials agreed to allow smugglers to smuggle cocaine into the port of Tortola before leaving for the United States.
Source: Huffpost
