Police have formally charged Tonika Lewis, a 31-year-old, unemployed resident of Woburn, St George for the offence of Money Laundering.
Lewis was taken in custody after just over EC$14,000 was found during a search of her residence on Monday, 11 May 2020.
She has been granted $15,000 bail with 2 sureties, has to surrender all travel documents and report to the nearest police station every Monday and Friday.
Lewis is due in court at a later date. Police investigations are continuing.
Office of Commissioner of Police
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Grenada is one the highest money laundering in the Caribbean. I was embarrassed when I read from an article and in a document. The Government makes deal all the time with foreign investors. Where does the profit goes? Not in the treasury for the island. The government is always borrowing money and has a big debt. They only focusing on the rich
investors building too many hotels destroying our island. What about the Chinese investment. It’s a system that China is created around the Caribbean and having embassies where they have so much privilege like they can get away with a crime because they are embassadors.
China going to take over the islands I heard when they will be unable to back the debts. Like I see a cold war and its happening.
Too many people are unemployed. Why The Prime minister keep selling land off!
Because this lady is unemployed and fund that amount of money she is money laundering? Well give her a job then. That’s why Grenada has so much thieves, alcoholics and drug addicts. When there is no jobs there will be more crime and poverty.
I am kind of sic of our own Government suppressing our own people much less in other countries. We also have to fight to live, work harder while the Government leaders fill their pockets.
I also heard Grenada is tax haven for those investors which means they hide their money from their countries so they have to report it as they don’t want to pay taxes and they get 25 years concessions in Grenada so they have to taxes. Where is the brain? How stupid? Doesn’t Grenada needs revenue? Well Grenadians shouldn’t pay no vat taxes and no barrel fees when families abroad send them food stuff.
Also the Prime minister is the Minister of Finance and this is a conflict of interest and I dont know why the accepted that. That should show a person with common sense what is going there. That’s is dictatorhip. Even though a country uses a democratic system for voting it does not mean that’s is true democracy. Giving away money or things to people for free during reelection time is real bribery and not democracy. That’s chicky!
There are people doing money laundering and they are getting away with it.
Hypocrisy at its finest. With the questionable behaviour of the Grenadian government over the past few years with back-handed deals with billionaires, missing funds from the treasury and not to mention, the many questionable deals with the Chinese, they have an absolute cheek to go after a local resident to use her as a ‘smoke screen example’. The police, the Government and the billionaire investors need to be tried FIRST, before local residents for money laundering. They really think people can’t see what’s happening behind the scenes
That’s 1 reason i distance myself from grenada and embarrass to say am a Grenada.. The grenadian authorities have nothing to do and occupied they time on petty activities… Someone needs to mobilize the youths and pose a great threat to those who believe in surpress the poor and weak. Gairy had never dreamed of a revolution.. Release the damn young lady! Did they found drugs or ammunition? What’s the motive.
$14,000 OH PLEASE! GIVE THE WOMAN BACK HER DAMN MONEY! I THOUGHT IT WAS $14,000,000.
She ain’t trust no bank they theifing people that’s a small sum give the woman back her money in this hard time….allu got 14,000 and bail set at 15,000
A dead relative left it for me or am a secret stripper where’s the laundering in that
I thought I was the only person that noticed she was charged with money laundering and doesn’t have a job. What is the meaning of money laundering? and why is this news report incomplete?
I hope that they had a proper search warrant.
that don’t make sense how you could be charge with money laundry with out a job. The person need a business to clean the cash.
How is this money laundering why was her house search in the first place