New Trinidad & Tobago $ money polymer notes

[Dizzy28]

No one was really expecting that currency change over. Real ppl get caught with their pants down and had to pay businessmen to change their money for them.

People had to have known (and by the volume of STRs recorded by FIU seems it was big players)
Q3 2019 had such a big spike in laundering that it can't be coincidental.
Based on the figures below that works out to almost 1.8m/transaction.

An estimated $749 million in "dirty money" got laundered as "clean currency" in the months leading up to Government and the Central Bank's changeover of $100 bills to the difficult-to-duplicate polymer notes.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) reports that 429 transactions, amounting to $749,024,557, is the highest recorded number of money laundering cases in the last three years, and occurred between July and September.
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/12/15/749m-in-dirty-money/

The 1% fishes got away .

I guess they was told to get their house in order.

Pastor Lal and barber kwame have to take the squeeze balls to make PNM look good

Me eh mind small fish get catch. But I would also have liked some big fishes to be in the net too.

[pugboy]

them 1% have parallel businesses to push the casino money thru
same thing with the chinese casinos and supermarkets

[pugboy]

so u saying polymer exercise was a failure ?

No one was really expecting that currency change over. Real ppl get caught with their pants down and had to pay businessmen to change their money for them.

People had to have known (and by the volume of STRs recorded by FIU seems it was big players)
Q3 2019 had such a big spike in laundering that it can't be coincidental.
Based on the figures below that works out to almost 1.8m/transaction.

An estimated $749 million in "dirty money" got laundered as "clean currency" in the months leading up to Government and the Central Bank's changeover of $100 bills to the difficult-to-duplicate polymer notes.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) reports that 429 transactions, amounting to $749,024,557, is the highest recorded number of money laundering cases in the last three years, and occurred between July and September.
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/12/15/749m-in-dirty-money/

The 1% fishes got away .

I guess they was told to get their house in order.

Pastor Lal and barber kwame have to take the squeeze balls to make PNM look good

Me eh mind small fish get catch. But I would also have liked some big fishes to be in the net too.

[bluefete]

When you see an injun pastor is too run.

LOL. Allyuh remember him? He said he inherited 900 billion pounds from a dead Yankee.




Mirror's 'Will is Nil' investigations sink pastor
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

THE TnT Mirror's indept probe into the questionable financial dealings of Pastor Vishnu "Kitty" Lutchmansingh bore fruit when Lutchmansingh appeared at the San Fernando Magistrates' Court last Monday.

After careful and tedious investigative work by the local authorities in tandem with international investigators, including a forensic audit by forensic auditor Bob Lindquist, Lutchmansingh is now facing 38 charges of fraud involving an estimated $3.2 million.

This newspaper stands heads above the remainder of the print and electronic media for its relentless pursuit of justice for the numerous people who have allegedly suffered at Lutchman-singh's hands ever since the multi-billion dollar inheritance was first trumpeted.

Once the reports of irregularities first surfaced, Mirror editors Ramjohn Ali, Siewdath Persad and David Millette threw down the gauntlet by initiating a thorough investigation of the Buford Keaton inheritance, and in collaboration with former Mirror journalist Kirk Perreira, who spent countless hours tracking the story in the United States and at home, shot the multi-billion dollar inheritance out of the water.

On January 2, 2004, the Friday Mirror Back Page headline screamed, The Will is Nil, thereby putting an end to the alleged multi-billion dollar myth.

Indeed, to the disappointment of many of Lutchmansingh's benefactors, Keaton, a former railroad worker who died in 1996 at age 68, left only a few dollars to his name and not the vast property and cash bonanza testified to by Probe Editor Ken Ali.

Sadly, those so-called powers of the local media, the senior editors stuffed with self-importance and righteousness, were very tardy in following the Mirror's lead.

Amazingly, some media houses preferred to highlight the other activities at Lutchmansingh's Faith Sanctuary Families Ministry, in spite of this newspaper's scandal claims against the pastor.

Often Lutchmansingh would appear in the newspapers promoting some silly book on his life from rags to riches.

http://www.tntmirror.com/friday/2006/jan27/story03.htm

Copyright © 2000-2019 TrinidadAndTobagoNews.com


Then he killed himself:

https://www.trinituner.com/v4/forums/vi ... p?t=565084

Then he got in trouble:

https://www.religionnewsblog.com/13454/ ... n-trinidad

[Dizzy28]

When you see an injun pastor is too run.

LOL. Allyuh remember him? He said he inherited 900 billion pounds from a dead Yankee.




Mirror's 'Will is Nil' investigations sink pastor
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

THE TnT Mirror's indept probe into the questionable financial dealings of Pastor Vishnu "Kitty" Lutchmansingh bore fruit when Lutchmansingh appeared at the San Fernando Magistrates' Court last Monday.

After careful and tedious investigative work by the local authorities in tandem with international investigators, including a forensic audit by forensic auditor Bob Lindquist, Lutchmansingh is now facing 38 charges of fraud involving an estimated $3.2 million.

This newspaper stands heads above the remainder of the print and electronic media for its relentless pursuit of justice for the numerous people who have allegedly suffered at Lutchman-singh's hands ever since the multi-billion dollar inheritance was first trumpeted.

Once the reports of irregularities first surfaced, Mirror editors Ramjohn Ali, Siewdath Persad and David Millette threw down the gauntlet by initiating a thorough investigation of the Buford Keaton inheritance, and in collaboration with former Mirror journalist Kirk Perreira, who spent countless hours tracking the story in the United States and at home, shot the multi-billion dollar inheritance out of the water.

On January 2, 2004, the Friday Mirror Back Page headline screamed, The Will is Nil, thereby putting an end to the alleged multi-billion dollar myth.

Indeed, to the disappointment of many of Lutchmansingh's benefactors, Keaton, a former railroad worker who died in 1996 at age 68, left only a few dollars to his name and not the vast property and cash bonanza testified to by Probe Editor Ken Ali.

Sadly, those so-called powers of the local media, the senior editors stuffed with self-importance and righteousness, were very tardy in following the Mirror's lead.

Amazingly, some media houses preferred to highlight the other activities at Lutchmansingh's Faith Sanctuary Families Ministry, in spite of this newspaper's scandal claims against the pastor.

Often Lutchmansingh would appear in the newspapers promoting some silly book on his life from rags to riches.

http://www.tntmirror.com/friday/2006/jan27/story03.htm

Copyright © 2000-2019 TrinidadAndTobagoNews.com


Then he killed himself:

https://www.trinituner.com/v4/forums/vi ... p?t=565084

Then he got in trouble:

https://www.religionnewsblog.com/13454/ ... n-trinidad

But imagine well renowned businessmen like the Nutrixmix's Mohammed get conned out of millions by Kitty. These born again pastors must have extremely gifted tongues to sway people.

[zoom rader]

No one was really expecting that currency change over. Real ppl get caught with their pants down and had to pay businessmen to change their money for them.

People had to have known (and by the volume of STRs recorded by FIU seems it was big players)
Q3 2019 had such a big spike in laundering that it can't be coincidental.
Based on the figures below that works out to almost 1.8m/transaction.

An estimated $749 million in "dirty money" got laundered as "clean currency" in the months leading up to Government and the Central Bank's changeover of $100 bills to the difficult-to-duplicate polymer notes.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) reports that 429 transactions, amounting to $749,024,557, is the highest recorded number of money laundering cases in the last three years, and occurred between July and September.
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/12/15/749m-in-dirty-money/

The 1% fishes got away .

I guess they was told to get their house in order.

Pastor Lal and barber kwame have to take the squeeze balls to make PNM look good

Me eh mind small fish get catch. But I would also have liked some big fishes to be in the net too.

Like you don't know where you living .

Monos islands drug bust
Sex trafficking
1% taking law into their own hands, remember when they kidnap a 1% family member?

[The_Honourable]

If that pastor had any sense he could have been laundering that money easy, easy over the years with not a soul knowing. In the end the most he could have lost was small change liquid cash in a box, like $1M? Church laundering money so easy eh. Art for the church is one of the easiest ways. Why he was putting this money away in cardboard boxes anyway? He could have deposited every year in an account registered to the church and declare it as church plate collection. No taxes, just a bank fee. Then hire a consultant to hide it in the Cayman Islands through shares in all the 1% companies.

Have many things too he could have used. Real estate. Casino investments. Used cars. TT authorities don't blink at those things. It have more than meets the eye to this, if a man has $29M in cardboard boxes under his bed.

He shud learn a thing or two from the open bible church in san fernando with Quamina and them. Open private hospital, pharmacy, banquet hall, etc.

[Rovin]

if d $ was genuinely from church [or otherwise] its a dumbass risky move to be storing that somewhere , suppose bandits or a piper came in for a lil house breaking & stumbled upon even some of that or if a fire broke out ...

[viedcht]

them 1% have parallel businesses to push the casino money thru
same thing with the chinese casinos and supermarkets

Daz what the smart ones do.

[rspann]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

[redmanjp]

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/cops-seize-millions-more-at-pastors-church-6.2.1020092.775f44d753

Cops seize millions more at pastor's church
by Mark Bassant - Lead Editor, Investigative Desk
12 hours ago
Thu Jan 02 2020
Pastor Vinworth Dayal

Pastor Vinworth Dayal

Po­lice seized mil­lions more in cash at the Third Ex­o­dus As­sem­bly Church in Long­denville head­ed by Pas­tor Vin­worth Day­al late Thurs­day evening.

The lat­est raid was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit (FIU) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice with the help of the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Branch (FIB), as they widened their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nan­cial op­er­a­tions at the church.

Of­fi­cers from the FIU are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent in which the pas­tor at­tempt­ed to change close to $29 mil­li­on in old $100 bills on De­cem­ber 31. That mon­ey has since been seized by the po­lice.

"It's mil­lions for sure," said a se­nior in­ves­ti­ga­tor who spoke with Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing the po­lice search at the church that was con­duct­ed si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly with an op­er­a­tion at an Ocean Av­enue home in Gulf View, La Ro­maine, on Thurs­day evening.

At the La Ro­maine house, which is oc­cu­pied by the pas­tor’s rel­a­tives, in­ves­ti­ga­tors on­ly seized doc­u­ments.

But at the church, in­ves­ti­ga­tors said they found large sums of $20, $10, $5 and $1 notes in a large cab­i­net.

“There were al­so large ev­i­den­tial bags filled with these notes as well. It's a lot!" one in­ves­ti­ga­tor ex­plained.

Sources said they found thou­sands of en­velopes that con­tained tithes, ac­cord­ing to Pas­tor Day­al, who was present dur­ing the search. The pas­tor, ac­cord­ing to in­ves­ti­ga­tors, ex­plained that they had large brown en­velopes and white en­velopes in­side of these brown en­velopes. The white en­velopes had old $100 bills that were re­moved to be ex­changed and the brown en­velopes con­tained all the "oth­er types of bills."

Sev­er­al stacks of the bills were tight­ly held to­geth­er by rub­ber bands that were found in the large bags or in­side the cab­i­net.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said dur­ing the search Day­al kept telling po­lice that he would be vin­di­cat­ed and the mon­ey they saw came from tithes giv­en to him by his con­gre­ga­tion.

The large sum of mon­ey was tak­en away by of­fi­cers of the FIU and they will be start­ing a count on Fri­day to es­ti­mate ex­act­ly how much mon­ey they re­cov­ered on the church com­pound.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said on De­cem­ber 5 last year that the new poly­mer $100 bill would help au­thor­i­ties in their fight against mon­ey laun­der­ing and oth­er il­le­gal op­er­a­tions. The pub­lic was ad­vised to change their old $100 bills for the new poly­mer $100 bills by De­cem­ber 31, 2019. How­ev­er, the pas­tor came un­der the radar af­ter he tried to change close to $29m on the dead­line day. Po­lice sub­se­quent­ly seized the mon­ey on the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act be­fore Thurs­day’s raid at the church.

[Chimera]

Kitty's son was in secondary school with me. Man use to have security drop him to school and wait all day for him. He was always real jumpy. Real racket with kitty. I remember years ago another man put out a big add in the papers saying hes the real heir to the fortune and not kitty

When you see an injun pastor is too run.

LOL. Allyuh remember him? He said he inherited 900 billion pounds from a dead Yankee.




Mirror's 'Will is Nil' investigations sink pastor
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

THE TnT Mirror's indept probe into the questionable financial dealings of Pastor Vishnu "Kitty" Lutchmansingh bore fruit when Lutchmansingh appeared at the San Fernando Magistrates' Court last Monday.

After careful and tedious investigative work by the local authorities in tandem with international investigators, including a forensic audit by forensic auditor Bob Lindquist, Lutchmansingh is now facing 38 charges of fraud involving an estimated $3.2 million.

This newspaper stands heads above the remainder of the print and electronic media for its relentless pursuit of justice for the numerous people who have allegedly suffered at Lutchman-singh's hands ever since the multi-billion dollar inheritance was first trumpeted.

Once the reports of irregularities first surfaced, Mirror editors Ramjohn Ali, Siewdath Persad and David Millette threw down the gauntlet by initiating a thorough investigation of the Buford Keaton inheritance, and in collaboration with former Mirror journalist Kirk Perreira, who spent countless hours tracking the story in the United States and at home, shot the multi-billion dollar inheritance out of the water.

On January 2, 2004, the Friday Mirror Back Page headline screamed, The Will is Nil, thereby putting an end to the alleged multi-billion dollar myth.

Indeed, to the disappointment of many of Lutchmansingh's benefactors, Keaton, a former railroad worker who died in 1996 at age 68, left only a few dollars to his name and not the vast property and cash bonanza testified to by Probe Editor Ken Ali.

Sadly, those so-called powers of the local media, the senior editors stuffed with self-importance and righteousness, were very tardy in following the Mirror's lead.

Amazingly, some media houses preferred to highlight the other activities at Lutchmansingh's Faith Sanctuary Families Ministry, in spite of this newspaper's scandal claims against the pastor.

Often Lutchmansingh would appear in the newspapers promoting some silly book on his life from rags to riches.

http://www.tntmirror.com/friday/2006/jan27/story03.htm

Copyright 2000-2019 TrinidadAndTobagoNews.com


Then he killed himself:

viewtopic.php?t=565084

Then he got in trouble:

https://www.religionnewsblog.com/13454/ ... n-trinidad

But imagine well renowned businessmen like the Nutrixmix's Mohammed get conned out of millions by Kitty. These born again pastors must have extremely gifted tongues to sway people.

[Chimera]

D fuq . I didn't even know about this.


[http://www]

As a sign of forgiveness, the family members who escaped the wrath of pastor Vishnu “Kitty” Lutchmansingh nine weeks ago on the day he murdered his brother and killed himself attended his funeral yesterday. Cousins Timothy and Joey Janitan, whom Lutchmansingh tried to kill on March 31, were among the mourners gathered to bid their final farewell, at Belgrove’s crematorium, Coffee Street, San Fernando. Also present was the widow of Lutchmansingh’s brother Kishan, Allison Lutchmansingh. She said through attending the funeral of the man who killed her husband, she had begun the healing process. “I am healing with the help of God and it is my faith that brought me here today,” said Lutchmansingh. “In time, God will give me the strength to forgive him.”
 
Speaking during the service, Lutchmansingh’s sister, Pastor Girlie Lutchmansingh, urged family members to remember the good times spent with him and not only the bad times. “We need to remember the good times we had as children, the man ‘Kitty’ was 99 per cent of the time, not the person he was one per cent of the time,” she said. Another sister, Geeta Lutchmansingh, said the family had begun to heal and move on from the tragedy and was hoping to stay close. “We finally have closure. Now we can move on. This is the time we have to look out for one another, for his children especially,” she said as she tried to soothe Lutchmansingh’s eight-year-old daughter, Alana. Lutchmansingh’s elder daughter, Hana, had to be consoled by relatives as her father’s remains were cremated as she too broke down in loud sobs. The T&T Guardian understands Lutchmansingh’s son, Aaron, was too distraught to attend the service. On March 31, Lutchmansingh, founder of Faith Sanctuary Family Ministries, shot and killed his brother Kishan. He then tried to shoot his nephew, Timothy, and ran over his other nephew, Joey, on his way to his home at Savary Road, Las Lomas No 1, where he set the house on fire while he was inside.
 
Who was Kitty?
Lutchmansingh, 54, shot to fame in 2003 with claims that he had inherited a billion-dollar fortune before he was eventually indicted in an embezzlement scam.

[pugboy]

yes, the polymer thinner and takes up less space in wallet, also waterproof so could leave money in drawers when swimming, try dat with greenbacks nah

so was worth the change over

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

[zoom rader]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

Lal the pastor , kwame the barber and pumpkin farmers get catch

All dem PNM ppl real proud of this exercise and achievement

Doh worry weed free

[Redman]

Logically it might be early days.....I would guess that based on the info they get they will act.

[rspann]

Them police does buss files as it happen. I got the $28,46500 figure before the news had the $29m story. And every body has a friend so I sure I was not the only one. Men was getting 30 cents on a dollar coming down to the end , so changing was never a problem for plenty people.

[teems1]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

Lal the pastor , kwame the barber and pumpkin farmers get catch

All dem PNM ppl real proud of this exercise and achievement

Doh worry weed free

If this exercise taught us anything, it's that there are large percentage of Trinis who make more than 72k per year but do not pay any income taxes.

These are the same ones quick to cry when there's no bed available in Mt Hope.

[pugboy]

^^^taught means they learnt something and know what to do....

all this exercise did was inconvenience barbers and pastors

[zoom rader]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

Lal the pastor , kwame the barber and pumpkin farmers get catch

All dem PNM ppl real proud of this exercise and achievement

Doh worry weed free

If this exercise taught us anything, it's that there are large percentage of Trinis who make more than 72k per year but do not pay any income taxes.

These are the same ones quick to cry when there's no bed available in Mt Hope.

Why pay PNM taxes when we can't see much value for money?

We get very little in return for our hard earned cash.

We are told renting an empty building from asre wari is value for money

We have to beg for simple services when doing any government bussiness.

Pot holes galore

Buildings, president house, Rowlee Tobago lime house. All these buildings the agv citizens will never get to see the inside off. It is off no use to 99% of the population.

Makes no sense paying PNM taxes

[zoom rader]

Them police does buss files as it happen. I got the $28,46500 figure before the news had the $29m story. And every body has a friend so I sure I was not the only one. Men was getting 30 cents on a dollar coming down to the end , so changing was never a problem for plenty people.

But 1% get 0 on the dollar

[VexXx Dogg]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

Lal the pastor , kwame the barber and pumpkin farmers get catch

All dem PNM ppl real proud of this exercise and achievement

Doh worry weed free

If this exercise taught us anything, it's that there are large percentage of Trinis who make more than 72k per year but do not pay any income taxes.

These are the same ones quick to cry when there's no bed available in Mt Hope.

Why pay PNM taxes when we can't see much value for money?

We get very little in return for our hard earned cash.

We are told renting an empty building from asre wari is value for money

We have to beg for simple services when doing any government bussiness.

Pot holes galore

Buildings, president house, Rowlee Tobago lime house. All these buildings the agv citizens will never get to see the inside off. It is off no use to 99% of the population.

Makes no sense paying PNM taxes

I disagree.
Everybody wants to benefit from healthcare, infrastructure and other state responsibilities, but for that to work, everyone should pay fair taxes. Why should the system be only propped by those who do it by the books

[sMASH]

paying taxes for paula may weaks to ress she head and for shamfa to make fone call, and for maxi cuffie to get the platinum medical plan.... right.

[pugboy]

like yuh forget the weave and fertility treatments
and paying off sexual harassers

paying taxes for paula may weaks to ress she head and for shamfa to make fone call, and for maxi cuffie to get the platinum medical plan.... right.

[FrankChag]

Um, only the 100s and 50s would survive
And who's keeping money in their draws?

yes, the polymer thinner and takes up less space in wallet, also waterproof so could leave money in drawers when swimming, try dat with greenbacks nah

so was worth the change over

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

[zoom rader]

So, was the whole exercise worth all the millions and time spent behind it? How many drug lords and gang leaders were held and their illicit gains seized?

Remember most illegal money is kept in USD .

Lal the pastor , kwame the barber and pumpkin farmers get catch

All dem PNM ppl real proud of this exercise and achievement

Doh worry weed free

If this exercise taught us anything, it's that there are large percentage of Trinis who make more than 72k per year but do not pay any income taxes.

These are the same ones quick to cry when there's no bed available in Mt Hope.

Why pay PNM taxes when we can't see much value for money?

We get very little in return for our hard earned cash.

We are told renting an empty building from asre wari is value for money

We have to beg for simple services when doing any government bussiness.

Pot holes galore

Buildings, president house, Rowlee Tobago lime house. All these buildings the agv citizens will never get to see the inside off. It is off no use to 99% of the population.

Makes no sense paying PNM taxes

I disagree.
Everybody wants to benefit from healthcare, infrastructure and other state responsibilities, but for that to work, everyone should pay fair taxes. Why should the system be only propped by those who do it by the books

Hey I totally agree with you bro.

But our tax dollars is wasted under PNM.

I am fed up of PNM spending my taxes to for weaves, wigs and Sprem. Paying Shamfa phone bills. Paying for empty buildings. Using tax dollars to build a bridge for a minster

Where is the public out cry.

Are you happy how your tax dollars are wasted under PNM?

Do think you are seeing value for money?

The small man is the one that is paying and toting this country.

What is one 1% paying? These are the people are abusing our system and not paying thier fair share.

The rich in this country is paying jack chit. They evade taxes by bribes and undermind the goverments. They even boasts about it.

Why should the small man be singled out for not paying when there are bigger scamps who blantly evade taxes.

We have a goverment who's main focus is the small man when they should be looking at the super rich and big businesses that evade taxes.

From my observation those that complain about health and goverment are NOT Trinis. These are small islanders who think they have a right here. Grenadians, Vincy and guyaness come here to use abuse our health care.

Trinis that have money could not care less as they fly out for health care.

You think your house tax will benifit you?

[Gladiator]

Religion is the worst thing to happen to mankind. Them churches brainwash their followers... I remember a lunchroom chat when the lotto was $15M. A fella ask everybody what they go do if they win.... lady jump up and say give a couple million to the "Church". Well she get real laugh down from everybody.

[sMASH]

PNM is the worst ting to happen to trinidad and tobago.

[rspann]

Nah. Pnm have the people happy. Not even the opposition complaining.

Grate is de pnm.

[pugboy]

carnival season start so everybody happy
not to mention road pavings starting soon