Gaston Browne’s personal financial records are fair game for legal examination, along with those of his Housing Minister wife, one of their sons, and Antigua’s general accountant and port manager, according to a federal court in New York.
Attorneys for the Alfa Nero owner say that the documents the Browne government has provided them are “redacted” and unverifiable.
The Associated Press reported March 17 that the owner of Alfa Nero can subpoena the “West Indies Oil Co. Ltd., an Antigua-based petroleum storage and distribution company of which the government is a majority shareholder, and Fancy Bridge Ltd., a Hong Kong-based investment firm that owns shares in the oil company, as does Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., known as PDVSA.”
Browne says he has nothing to hide and that he is being defamed.
