BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Ingrid Innes, the former chief executive
officer, and Alex Tasker, a former senior vice president of Insurance
Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL), a Barbados-based insurance company,
were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed on January 18, 2019, with
laundering bribes to the former Minister of Industry of Barbados in exchange
for his assistance in securing government contracts for ICBL. Innes and Tasker are not in U.S. custody.
Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York, Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant
Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office
(FBI), announced the charges.
Innes and Tasker were charged with one count of conspiracy
to launder money and two counts of money laundering in the superseding
indictment. The former Minister of
Industry of Barbados, Donville Inniss, a U.S. legal permanent resident who
resided in Tampa, Florida, and Barbados, was charged with the same crimes in an
indictment unsealed on August 6, 2018, and as a co-defendant of Innes and Tasker
in the superseding indictment. Inniss is
scheduled for trial on June 24, 2019, before United States District Judge Kiyo
A. Matsumoto.
The superseding indictment alleges that in 2015 and 2016,
Innes and Tasker participated in a scheme to launder into the United States
approximately $36,000 in bribes that they paid to Inniss, who at the time was a
member of the Parliament of Barbados and the Minister of Industry,
International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development of Barbados.
The charges in the superseding indictment are allegations,
and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt in a court of law.
ICBL voluntarily disclosed to the government the payments to
Inniss and received a prosecution declination under the FCPA Corporate
Enforcement Policy. ICBL disgorged to
the government $93,940.19 in illicit profits that it earned from the scheme.
The FBI’s New York Field Office and International Corruption
Squad is investigating the case. In
2015, the FBI formed International Corruption Squads across the country to
address national and international implications of foreign corruption.
Assistant United States Attorney Sylvia Shweder of the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and Trial Attorney
Gerald M. Moody, Jr., of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are in charge of
the prosecution.
The Fraud Section is responsible for investigating and
prosecuting all Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters. Additional information about the Department’s
FCPA enforcement efforts can be found at
www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.
The Defendants:
DONVILLE INNISS
Age: 52
Barbados
INGRID INNES
Age: 63
Canada
ALEX TASKER
Age: 58
Barbados
E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 18-CR-134 (S-1) (KAM)
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