Miami, CMC- Premier Andrew Fahie has rejected a movement by prosecutors to exclude proof talked about in his drug and cash laundering indictment that issues an area thriller girl.
The individual, who was recognized solely by the initials RS, allegedly made statements that might be useful to Fahie when his trial for drug smuggling, cash laundering, and racketeering begins on January 8 January 8
Fahie could possibly be sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted of the fees in opposition to him.
The thriller girl talked about in Fahie’s indictment allegedly advised his co-accused that Fahie supposed to have a person — who turned out to be an informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) however was posing as a drug trafficker — arrested as soon as he arrived again within the BVI with ill-gotten funds supposed for Fahie.
His co-accused, former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, has already pleaded responsible to a diminished cost of a single depend of drug smuggling in a plea settlement with prosecutors. She would be the Prosecution’s essential witness in Fahie’s trial.
Based on data in courtroom paperwork filed earlier than the trial subsequent month, Fahie’s lawyer, Theresa Van Vliet, rejected a movement by prosecutors to exclude proof given after Fahie and Maynard’s arrest, the place the thriller girl had been implicated.
Prosecutors needed to exclude as ‘inadmissible rumour’ any of Fahie’s alleged post-arrest statements to legislation enforcement officers or alleged statements made on to Maynard post-arrest.
The prosecutors filed a movement to forestall the courtroom from listening to testimony concerning statements made by a person known as ‘RS.’
Based on the allegations, ‘RS’ knowledgeable Maynard that she had obtained directions from Fahie to convey to Maynard that Fahie supposed to have the informant arrested upon the arrival of a jet carrying over $700,000 within the BVI. Moreover, Fahie had promised to make sure that the funds have been seized.
However Van Vliet mentioned in response to the Prosecution’s movement that the protection didn’t want to query any witness about post-arrest statements allegedly made by Fahie to Maynard or any legislation enforcement within the US.
Nevertheless, she requested that the courtroom reject the Prosecution’s movement about statements to the thriller girl as a result of the statements weren’t being supplied to the courtroom for the reality of the matter however reasonably for the truth that they have been made.
The lawyer argued that this proof is related to Fahie’s protection and his underlying fees.
Decide Kathleen Williams is predicted to make a ruling on the motions quickly.
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