FORMER CARIBBEAN LEADER’S ASSETS SEIZED BY BRITISH PROSECUTOR
July 1st, 2011
BY GEMMA HANDY
WORLDWIDE assets of the former leader of a British overseas territory have been frozen amid corruption investigations into malfeasance at the highest level in the Turks & Caicos Islands.
Its autonomous constitution was suspended and the country returned to direct British rule in August 2009 after a UK-appointed Commission of Inquiry declared corruption "endemic".
A special prosecutor Helen Garlick was appointed and former Premier Michael Misick - whose government was ousted from office - was served with a restraint order on June 23, ...
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