AG withdraws Supreme Courtroom Enchantment within the case towards Regina LaBega, Fabian Badejo, and different defendants.
GREAT BAY, St. Martin —The Lawyer Common (AG) of St. Maarten, Curaçao, Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba has withdrawn the enchantment to the Supreme Courtroom in cassation within the long-running case, code-named “Colade,” involving Regina LaBega, Fabian Badejo, and different co-defendants.
Based on courtroom paperwork directed to the defendants, a deed to that impact (“AKTE VAN CASSATIE”) was drawn up and signed on November 15, 2023.
LaBega stated she was overjoyed when her lawyer knowledgeable her that the case was closed. “It’s been 13 years of a nightmare I don’t want on my worst enemy,” she stated, “However thank God it’s over now.”
The Lawyer Common had filed the enchantment in cassation following the choice of February 17, 2022, of the Joint Courtroom of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, and Saba, which favored the defendants.
The case involved allegations of fraud, embezzlement, and belonging to a so-called “prison group” when LaBega was head of the St. Maarten Vacationer Bureau (STB) in 2010. Following her stint at STB, LaBega turned one of the crucial profitable managing administrators of SXM Airport between 2011 and 2016, securing an unprecedented Moody’s score of Baa2 and a number of other worldwide awards for the territory’s airport.
“I need to thank my household and buddies who stood by me all through this ordeal and believed in my innocence. I’m additionally very grateful to my lawyer for the wonderful job she did,” LaBega stated.
For his half, Badejo stated he was ecstatic concerning the information. “It’s the perfect information I’ve heard in years. God is sweet. The prayers of my 91-year-old mom in Nigeria have been answered.” Badejo is a senior St. Martin journalist, media advisor, and writer.
Lawyer Safira Ibrahim, who represented Badejo, defined, “The case is now closed, and the judgment rendered by the Joint Courtroom of Enchantment stands and has change into irrevocable.”
“Which means you may have been acquitted of all costs lodged towards you by the Prosecutor,” acknowledged Ibrahim in her letter to her shopper.
“I’m more than happy with this end result and glad that it has lastly come to a particular and favorable resolution. Properly deserved!” stated the legal professional.
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