US arrests Andrew Fahie, premier of British Virgin Islands, and a senior ports authority official for alleged money laundering and conspiracy to import cocaine
Fahie was at the airport to meet with Mexican drug traffickers, who in fact were undercover US agents, to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash.
The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory's ports have been arrested on drug smuggling charges in South Florida, US federal officials said. Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were arrested on Thursday by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to launder money, according to a criminal complaint.
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