TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The previous managing director of the BVI Ports Authority, Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, had her sentencing date pushed again by a number of weeks after repeated delays to the beginning of the drug and cash laundering trial for former premier Andrew Fahie.
The trial for the previous premier is scheduled to start on January 22, pending the result of a number of motions filed by the prosecution and protection.
Maynard heads the prosecution’s listing of witnesses and can now be sentenced on February 22 as a substitute of January 18.
Fahie, 53, is charged with one rely of conspiracy to import a managed substance, conspiracy to interact in cash laundering, and tried cash laundering along with interstate and overseas journey in support of racketeering.
Fahie was nabbed in Miami after he allegedly conspired with Maynard and her son, Kadeem Maynard, and agreed to permit giant quantities of cocaine to move by BVI’s ports as a part of a multi-million greenback deal he’s alleged to have made with an informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who was posing as a drug trafficker on the time.
Maynard admitted in a plea settlement that she launched the DEA informant to Fahie, and collectively, they used their authority to facilitate the key cocaine-smuggling plan.
She is predicted to supply vital testimony in opposition to Fahie after accepting the plea settlement, which supplies her an opportunity at a diminished sentence for her position within the scheme that shook the territory in 2022.
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