A former premier of the British Virgin Islands has been convicted on drug trafficking charges in the US, highlighting the territory’s status as a “formidable cocaine trafficking hub”.
Andrew Fahie, who led BVI from 2019 to 2022, was arrested in April 2022 after a US “sting operation” involving a confidential informant known as “Roberto Quintero”, who posed as a trafficker of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa cartel, reported Insight Crime.
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