SKNLP spokesperson Austin Edinborough in a recent call in to Freedom Fm’s popular talk show Issues, took the TUG to task over not conducting due diligence checks of US national David Kaplan, whose SKN passport was revoked by the TUG last week.
Kaplan who is facing fraud and corruption charges from the US Security and Exchange commission was issued an SKN passport by the Dr. Timothy Harris administration via the Citizenship by Investment program.
Meanwhile former Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and current Leader of the Opposition the Right Hon Dr Denzil L. Douglas said last Wednesday that the Timothy Harris-led Team Unity Government is deceptive and cannot be trusted by the citizens of the twin-island Federation, international agencies and friendly governments around the world.
Dr Douglas was responding to charges brought by the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) on an American attorney who used money obtained by fraud to get St Kitts and Nevis citizenship and was given St Kitts and Nevis passports for him and his wife by Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris.
“Between June 2015 and March 2016, the court documents are showing that these two persons made application to become citizens of St Kitts and Nevis, four months after the Team Unity Government led by Dr Harris took office, and by March of this year, Dr. Timothy Harris, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis has signed the Certificates of Citizenship that made them citizens of St Kitts and Nevis,” Dr. Douglas said on Freedom FM 106.5 “Issues” programme.
Dr. Douglas said the granting of citizenship to David Kaplan and his wife, Lisa raises a number of questions, especially when there was a song and dance about the Citizenship and Investment Programme under the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration “when Dr Harris was telling the world that St. Kitts and Nevis was selling passports like Ms Mem selling black pudding on a Saturday morning and afternoon and that criminals and money launderers were using our programme but up to now not even one name could be mentioned by that government.”