An attorney for Andrew Fahie filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Monday. Fahie, 51, was arrested last week during an attack by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as he prepared to board a private jet in Miami. According to a criminal complaint, Fahie and his port manager Oleanvine Maynard were at the airport to meet the Mexican drug traffickers, but were in fact DEA undercover agents. In the indictment, Maynard referred to Fahie as a “petty crook sometimes” who did not hesitate to take advantage of a plot hatched by self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah to smuggle large quantities of cocaine and drugs across the Caribbean. island. The shocking shock rocked the British Virgin Islands, where Fahi was already facing allegations of widespread corruption and appeared to be stepping up calls for a two-year suspension of the government to clear the government and return officials to London. Fahie’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment and did not provide details about her client’s two-page statement. Fahie, who also serves as finance minister, is said to have traveled to Miami to attend a cruise industry conference and had appointed a deputy prime minister in his absence. But any battle for immunity is likely to face many obstacles. “Diplomatic immunity does not protect you if you are alone in private robbery,” said Dick Gregory, a former Miami-based federal prosecutor who in the 1980s accused the prime minister of Turks and Caicos, another British colony, of drug and Panama General Manuel Noriega. However, the prosecution of foreign officials is rare, and the prosecution of the Caribbean’s top elected official would certainly have given the green light to the top echelons of the Department of Justice and the State Department, given the potential impact. For example, federal prosecutors in New York were waiting for Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to resign this year before accusing him of drug trafficking that came to light for the first time in his brother’s trial. “This is not done willingly or unwillingly. “Prosecutors are clearly very confident about the facts,” Gregory said. The series of islands of 35,000 inhabitants east of Puerto Rico is currently under a 2007 constitution that gives it limited self-government. Governor John Rankin, who is the Queen’s representative on the islands and her final executive, said the arrests led him to release – earlier than originally planned – a report by a commission of inquiry that began in January. 2021 to investigate allegations of widespread government fraud. Rankin said the investigation concluded that millions of dollars had been spent on projects, some of which were linked to the prime minister’s allies, that had been abandoned or found to be of no public benefit. “Some of them were, in their face, fake,” the governor said. The commission concluded that “unless the most urgent and drastic steps are taken, the current situation with elected officials deliberately ignoring the tenants of good governance will continue indefinitely,” Rankin told a news conference.
