And Jose Shoman is not the only big timer getting taken to court. 7NEWS
has learned that the Financial Intelligence Unit is also moving
against the Belize Bank. Full details are sketchy tonight, but 7NEWS
has confirmed that the Financial Intelligence Unit has filed criminal charges
against the Belize Bank at the Magistrate’s Court. This is for failure
to report a suspicious transaction relating, we are told, to September of 2005.
That’s when millions of dollars were reported stolen in a transaction
in which BTL was changing money on the black market. As much as $200 million
was reported to have been changed between 2001 and 2005.
It is the first time that the Financial Intelligence Unit has brought charges
and we would have wished to underscore the precedent with more information –
but Director of the Unit Geraldine Davis is out of the country. But as we said,
the matter is at the Magistrate’s Court – and we expect that a director
of the bank would be required to appear shortly.
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