A former member of the Barbados Parliament has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for laundering bribe payments through banks on Long Island.
Donville Inniss, 55, was convicted in January 2020, following a one-week trial, for laundering approximately $36,000 in bribes he received from high-level executives of Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) between August 2015 and April 2016.
In exchange for the bribes, Inniss leveraged his position as the Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development of Barbados to enable ICBL to obtain two contracts from the Barbados government to insure over $100 million worth of government property.
The Court ordered Inniss to pay $36,536.73 in forfeiture. Inniss was a legal permanent resident of the United States residing in Tampa, Florida and Barbados during the time of the charged conspiracy.
Mark J. Lesko, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced the sentence.
“In accepting bribes and laundering the payments through banks on Long Island, Inniss not only abused the public trust that was placed in him by the people of Barbados, he also stained the U.S. banking system with the proceeds of his corrupt scheme,” stated Lesko.
Inniss was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto in federal court in Brooklyn on January 2020.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Public Corruption|Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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