A Bermudian man was yesterday convicted of money laundering in St Vincent in a case involving a record $1.7 million in dirty cash.
Winston Robinson, from Sandys, was arrested four years ago on the Caribbean island after police found him and the money aboard the Jo-Tobin yacht.
According to The Searchlight newspaper in St Vincent, the cash bust was the largest in the history of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.
Robinson, who was 69 when he last appeared in the Serious Offences Court in January, was alleged by the prosecution to have sailed the yacht from Bermuda to St Vincent and the Grenadines with another man, Kent Andrews.
The skipper’s trial began in August, when he denied money laundering and claimed he earned the cash, which was in US currency and stashed in 88 packets, working in the hotel and fishing industry here.
Yesterday, a magistrate in Kingstown found Robinson and Jo-Tobin owner Antonio (Que Pasa) Gellizeau, from St Vincent, guilty on two charges of money laundering and remanded both in custody pending sentencing.
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