HUGE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRIAL IN TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS CONTINUES INTO ITS FOURTH YEAR
February 1st, 2019
FROM exorbitant spending on private jets and personal stylists at taxpayers’ expense – to pocketing millions of dollars acquired from flipping vast swathes of Crown land. These are just some of the allegations levelled at former politicians in Turks & Caicos Islands mega-corruption trials. Gemma Handy reports.
“IF you can’t pay, you can’t play,” was the rule of thumb in the British overseas territory of Turks & Caicos where politicians allegedly ran a government between 2003 and 2009 akin to a protection racket.
Those were the words ...
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