AmericasBarbados ex-minister sentenced to two years in U.S. for laundering bribes
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A former minister in the government of Barbados was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for laundering bribes he received from a Barbadian insurance company through a U.S. bank, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Donville Inniss, 55, who had served as minister of industry in the Caribbean nation and as a member of its parliament, was convicted by a federal jury in January 2020, the department said in a statement.
Evidence presented at trial showed that in 2015 and 2016, Inniss took part in a scheme to launder into the United States approximately $36,000 in bribes he had received from executives of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited to help the company secure two government contracts, the statement said.
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.
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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
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