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Immigration Officer to face the heat on March 27

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Maduro is on $90,000 bail. Photo: VINO

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – March 27, 2012 is the date set aside to try an Immigration Officer of five years – Walter Maduro – who has been charged with five counts of breach of trust.

During a court sitting this morning, January 27, 2012 at the Admin Complex, Crown Counsel Valston Graham stated that the investigations were completed and the Crown was ready to proceed to trial.

Maduro was officially charged last year in relation to two incidences where BVI Immigration entry stamps were placed into forged Venezuelan passports on June 5, 2010 and on June 29, 2010 at the Road Town Ferry Terminal.

According to court records, Maduro’s responsibility as an Immigration Officer (IO) was to clear all vessels and passengers entering the Virgin Islands (VI). It is alleged that the 31 year-old stamped the passports of a Colombian man and a Dominican Republic woman who were arrested on July 5, 2010 at a Great Mountain residence belonging to Earl ‘Bob’ Hodge.

The duo, Denisse Del Sosa Ventura and Osman Alberto Vargas Sanchez entered the VI on forged passports. They served 18 months each for giving false information and being in possession of forged documents.

Meanwhile, Maduro is currently on $90,000 bail with one signed surety.

8 Responses to “Immigration Officer to face the heat on March 27”

  1. ann says:

    look how dat boy spoil heself..sutruupps

  2. love child says:

    see whenever it’s a local the story is on every news site but when the whites and island people them committing crime I could never find it online….

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