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Trikt and associates as they suspect that
bank funds might have been used to fund
the imports. Officials said that there was
also evidence of under invoicing linked
to the importation of a Range Rover and
limousine.
The scandal has rocked the Dutchspeaking
Caribbean Community nation
as campaigning for the late May general
elections heats up. Opposition parties
and labor leaders have been feasting on
the scandal, suggesting that ineptitude at
state levels had gone too far. It comes also
just weeks after Bouterse was sentenced
to 20 years in jail for his role in the
murders of 15 government opponents
in 1982 when he was head of a military
government. Bouterse, 74 is seeking a
third consecutive five year term. His
National Democratic Party (NDP) must
win 26 of the 51 seats to attempt to form
a government and to negotiate for the
presidency.
To add to government’s political woes,
Bouterse appeared to make an elementary
political mistake of appointing ex central
bank director Sigmund Proeve as the
new bank chief despite the fact that he
had just a few years ago been sentenced
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to jail for a year for illegally transferring
US$100 million to a hotel group linked to
casino interests also without authorization.
Critics say they are astonished that
almost the same scenario has played out
today as stronger safeguards should have
been in place after the first large unauthorized
transfer.
Proeve won on appeal but opposition
parties are expressing astonishment
that Bouterse would now choose such a
banker with a stained past to head the
institution at this time of increased scrutiny.
He has since turned down the offer
especially after bank workers walked off
the job on Tuesday and held up placards
rejecting his nomination.
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abuse of immigrants should never be
used as political fodder to appease the
president’s base.”
The lawsuit — brought by nonprofit
legal services provider Al Otro Lado
— seeks to protect the rights of tens
of thousands of individuals who have
been unlawfully harmed by the Trump
Administration’s “arbitrary changes to
the asylum process.”
The case centers on asylum-seekers
who sought entry to the United States
prior to the administration’s efforts to
implement an interim final rule prohibiting
these individuals from seeking
asylum unless they applied for and
were denied protection in at least one
country they transited through prior
to arrival.
If the Trump administration is successful
in this case, James warned that
it could result in the denial of or delay
of access to the asylum process for
at least 26,000 applicants, including
parents with infants, unaccompanied
minors, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender and Queer-plus (LGBTQ+)
individuals, “whose lives could all be in
danger.”
The New York attorney general said
the asylum-seekers in this case have
already been stuck at the US border as
a result of the Trump administration’s
“unlawful ‘Turnback Policy.’”
Under the policy, she said border
officials have used various methods to
deny asylum-seekers access to the asylum
process, including misrepresentations,
threats and intimidation, coercion,
verbal and physical abuse, and
“metering” — the practice of putting
artificial, daily limits on the number
of asylum-seekers allowed to cross the
border.
In Wednesday’s amicus brief, the
coalition describes the harms the interim
final rule could have on both the
states and asylum-seekers.
For instance, the coalition points
to the lack of access to medical care,
drinkable water and appropriate shelter
available to asylum seekers, including
current examples of people living under
tarps, held up only by sticks, as temperatures
drop below freezing.
The coalition maintains that allowing
the rule to go into effect would
harm the states by preventing otherwise
eligible asylum-seekers who could
become valuable members of the states’
communities from entering or staying
in the country; incentivizing people to
dangerously enter the country without
inspection, as a direct result of the
blocking of critical humanitarian aid;
and forcing people to apply for asylum
in countries that may be dangerously
unequipped to offer adequate protections
or services, thereby increasing
their eventual need for state-funded
services once in the US.
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President of Suriname, Desi Bouterse
at a press conference in Suriname.
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