If it’s too good to be true…

It’s not every day that someone you’ve come to know reasonably well through the airline business appears on every evening TV news programme around the world accused of an $8.9 billion fraud. And yet this is the bizarre situation that has developed during the last week as the accusations started to fly at Sir Allen Stanford and his international banking activities.

Soon after I arrived in the Caribbean in 2006 I was warned by a very credible local businessman that it was alleged that there were many dubious aspects of Stanford’s organisation. While this warning stayed with me, I had no option but to engage with the Stanford Empire – and eventually Sir Allen Stanford himself (although he wasn’t a Knight at the time – but that’s another story….) as the then owner of Car

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