KINGSTON, Jamaica – The husband of an attorney-at-law allegedly involved in an international money-laundering scheme was on Tuesday also arrested and charged for financial crimes.
Real estate agent and retired banker, 66-year-old Terrence Allen of a Cherry Gardens, St Andrew address was slapped with 10 counts of money laundering, the police have reported.
Allen appeared before the Corporate Area Criminal Court on Tuesday, where he was granted bail in the sum of $1 million. He is to return to Court on Friday, November 28.
In December of last year, Allen’s wife, Dawn Satterswaite a 56-year-old, attorney-at-law, and three relatives of a convicted transnational drug trafficker were arrested.
Paulette Higgins, 53 year-old of Norman Gardens, Kingston 2; Janet Ramsay, 50 year-old of Bridgeport, Portmore, St Catherine and Ann Marie Cleary, 40 year-old of Woodlawn, Manchester, as well as Satterswaite were all charged for offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).
The four women were arrested on December 17, 2013 during predawn operations, led by the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) and the Financial Investigative Division (FID).
Another operation was carried out in August of this year, which saw the son of the convicted transnational drug trafficker, 20-year-old Andre Hamilton being arrested in the Kingston 6 area and later charged with multiple counts of money laundering.
Hamilton, along with the four women, are also to appear in court Friday with Allen.