Police are investigating the possibility of confiscating assets of all major drug traffickers who have been arrested or convicted for drug offences. The key here is that the person has to have been “arrested or convicted”.
That’s clever, because it neatly excludes prominent citizens who, reportedly, have benefited from the sale of illegal narcotics but, because of their social stautus, have never been arrested for it.
Good news for the families of former PLP politicians like Lynden Pindling and Franklyn Wilson.
Pindling’s widow currently lives in a mansion in Nassau that was rumoured to have been bought and paid for with money from Carlos Lehder, the notorious Columbian drug kingpin, who ruled the Bahamas during the late 1980s. A Commission of Inquiry at that time found that Mr. Pindling had millions of dollars more than his salary could ever have generated. He was forced to resign but never arrested or convicted.
Mr. Wilson, known as the “snake”, is rumoured to have drummed up millions of dollars from local drug dealers and Panamanian drug kingpins, to finance the PLP party. This allegation has been printed in numerous offline publications. The true source of funding for the PLP party (or the FNM for that matter) is difficult to verify, because both parties refuse to open their books to the Bahamian public, something that should be required by law.
