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A Bahamas-based women's rights advocacy group has been added as a "respondent" in a legal battle over $1.5m alleged to have been derived from an international fraud.
The Court of Appeal, in a unanimous ruling yesterday, agreed that Celebrating Women International Ltd should be joined to a case that also involves flamboyant "philanthropist", Rudolph Kermit King, and an investigation by the US Justice Department.
Mr King has been seeking to remove a restraining Order that froze some $1.511m held by a Bahamian law firm in its client account. The restraining Order was obtained by the Attorney General's Office, acting at the behest of the US attorney for Washington state's western district, as part of a probe into a scheme that defrauded Boeing, the giant aircraft and defence manufacturer.