TORTOLA — Claude Skelton-Cline, a former BVI government consultant, is the latest individual to be charged in a series of fraud probes recommended by the Commission of Inquiry.
Claims of widespread corruption and fraud involving millions of pounds of public money are being investigated on the British Virgin Islands.
The governor of the islands, a British territory, has ordered an independent inquiry into the allegations and is supported by both the prime minister and the foreign secretary.
One of the claims is that $40m (£29m) set aside for struggling families during the COVID pandemic might have been channelled to political allies.
Announcing the Commission of Inquiry, Governor August Jaspert said there were wide concerns over the possible mismanagement of some public projects .
He said successive audit reports had set out practices of political interference, inflated pricing and conflicts of interest and added: These may have cost the public purse millions of dollars in recent years, with no sign of improvement.