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Dominica's Former AG Accused in Passport Scam |
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Written or Posted by ( Ap Associated Press )
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Dominica's former attorney general has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring with others to fraudulently obtain and sell passports.
Bernard Wiltshire was being held Tuesday on $18,000 bail.
Police accuse Wiltshire and three other people of selling passports to illegal immigrants, mostly from Arab countries.
It is unclear if Wiltshire has an attorney. He earlier filed a civil lawsuit against police and the government accusing them of false imprisonment and arrest after he was detained last year without any charges as police investigated the case.
Wiltshire served as attorney general from 2000 to 2002.
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Following the French attack under La Grange and the suppressions of the Maroons in 1814, Dominica was entering a long period of peace . In 1815 Napoleon was finally overthrown and the threat of French attack on Dominica was over for good. For almost a hundred years the inhabitants had lived in constant fear of invasion and yet, now they were faced with problems no less important than war. The most insistence was slavery.
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