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Ex-Government Minister Donville Inniss has lost an appeal to overturn a U.S. conviction for laundering bribes connected to insurance contracts through a New York business. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday rejected arguments from Inniss, against his 2020 conviction on three money-laundering-related counts for moving bribe money through the bank account of his friend’s dental business. Inniss was found guilty in connection with the receipt …
April 28, 2021
United States Judge Kiyo Matsumoto on Tuesday afternoon sentenced former Government Minister Donville Inniss to 24 months in prison following his conviction in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 2020.
Inniss had been found guilty by jury of money laundering linked to bribe payments received from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL).
In addition to the jail sentence, Inniss will have two years supervisory probation where he will not be able to leave the USA. No fine or payment of restitution was imposed but an order of forfeiture was issued for approximately $36 000 related to the bribery charges.
April 28, 2021
Despite his disappointment with today’s sentencing of former Government Minister Donville Inniss, the Reverend Guy Hewitt told
Barbados TODAY that he was “glad” to have been able to travel to Brooklyn to support him at his sentencing at the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York.
Inniss was sentenced to two years in prison for a money laundering conviction in January 2020, relating to bribery payments received from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL).
“I consider my greatest wealth those special relationships that I have acquired over a lifetime,” the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom told