Seems a 'little' suspicious that a British oligarchs daughter would accidentally shoot the top cop in Belize, where her husband runs an elite resort...
Guess he won't be able to testify in any corruption cases....
Her father-in-law is Lord Michael Ashcroft, who fled the UK to Belize & got citizenship to avoid taxes. Then became Belize's ambassador to the UN.
Can it get any Swampier? Oh, yes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A…
Businessman, pollster & politician, seems like a trifecta of Swamp. Was Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party in the UK, equivalent to the DNC & RNC swamps.
Was appointed as a peer in the House of Lords in 2000, promising he would end his status as a tax evader, but he didn't.
When he was appointed, a DEA intel specialist leaked information on his ties to drug money laundering that DEA never got around to investigating....
Wonder if it ties into this OIG investigation that found DEA concealing illegal money laundering operations by it's agents. Including a habit of only investigating a small percentage of the crooks & leaving large well connected ones off the radar...
It seems that 10 years after being appointed to the House of Lords, that he pretended to change his status on taxes to avoid being kicked out of Parlament. But the #ParadisePapers leaks showed it was a sham & he kept his off-shore money & Belize residence...
Ashcroft was accused of buying his peerage & seat in the House of Lords from the Conservative Party, by loaning money to the party. A loophole used by several parties to avoid reporting of donations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-…
Looks like his donations to the Swamp in Belize worked...
Looks like he found friends to support in Australia's Swamp too!
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