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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.