Opposition Leader claims UK Serious Fraud Office investigating resort

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace said Wednesday that the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office is investigating the Buccament Bay Resort project and that he has “a copy of submissions” made to that office. “I shall say more on this at a later date. This is as yet a developing matter,” Eustace told a news conference as the fallout continues from an encounter between Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and two journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over the weekend. Eustace said he was advised that sometime around Thursday, a U.K.-based lawyer from Regulatory Legal Solicitors, acting for a number of U.K. investors in the Harlequin Buccament Bay Project had flown to St. Vincent and the Grenadines “for the purpose of ascertaining the situation as it pertains to Harlequin’s Buccama Resort and to further investigate the land title at Buccament as it relates to the resort.