Prime Minister Andrew Alturo Fahie and CEO Oleanvine Maynard have been detained by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents at the Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with cocaine importation and money laundering. Maynard’s son, Kadeem Maynard, is facing the same changes to the supposed design, according to records. “Anyone involved in the smuggling of dangerous drugs into the United States will be held accountable, regardless of their position,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “Today is another example of the DEA’s determination to hold corrupt members of government accountable for using their power to provide safe havens for drug traffickers and money launderers in exchange for their own economic and political gain.” Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard went to the airport to meet Mexican drug traffickers, who were in fact DEA undercover agents, to see a $ 700,000 cash shipment that BVI officials were waiting to receive to help smuggle from Colombia to Miami and New York. said the complaint. A DEA source had previously met with Maynard and her son after they were introduced by a group of self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah, according to the complaint. Following Fahie’s involvement, he said, BVI officials agreed to allow smugglers to bring cocaine through the port of Tortola before continuing on to the United States. The British Virgin Islands Governor John Rankin has issued a statement saying Thursday’s arrests in Florida were not linked to a Commission of Inquiry issued last year. The investigation was aimed at focusing on governance and corruption, not on a criminal investigation into drug trafficking, Rankin said in a statement posted on the Internet. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. The British Virgin Islands, with a population of about 35,000, is a British Caribbean overseas territory located east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The governor is appointed by the queen, the ultimate executive power of the territory, and acts on her behalf. The prime minister is the head of government and is elected in general elections along with the other members of the ruling government.
