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And, of course, the biggest corruption story right now involved Armenian Lev Dermen. He's in a jail in Utah for a tax fraud scheme in the states.  But all his former criminal collaborators have turned against him.  They say he used to pay a Belizean government minister 25 thousand US dollars a month.  

But, what would he pay all that for?

We know that he wanted to be a diplomat in Belize - allegedly to facilitate large movements of cash.  And he tried to use his influence to become Honorary Consul to Lss Vegas, Nevada.  And, he did turn to a Minister to put in a word for him.  The Prime Minister yesterday told us what he knows:

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"He was guided indeed, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by a minister, who never wrote any formal recommendation, a minister whose name I will call, there's nothing to hide. The Honourable Michael Kwame Finnegan. Minister Finnegan quite properly said to him, you go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Minister Elrington told cabinet yesterday, that happens on a very regular basis."