PHILIPSBURG:— Detectives that are busy in the Colade investigation arrested Regina Labega, Fabian Badejoe and Erica Fortuno early Monday morning as they continue with the six year old investigation that involves the suspects. The trio had an account in the name of DMC registered in Anguilla. DMC is a registered company where Labega is a shareholder.
The company was registered as a marketing company and was working for the Tourist Office while Labega was heading that department.
During the early stages of the Colade investigation, detectives and the prosecutor’s office had found the off-shore account for DMC in Anguilla where monies from Chase Manhattan Bank in New York was transferring up to 1.2M USD to the DMC account in Anguilla. At that time Fortuno was heading the New York Tourist Office, while Labega was head of St. Maarten Tourist Bureau. The monies sent to that company was for marketing purposes. SMN News understands that the company DMC belonged to Labega, Badejoe and Fortuno.
On October 16th 2015 the National detectives conducted five house searches which were led by the judge of instruction, on the request of the public prosecutor’s office.
However, on Monday May 30th 2016 the detectives made a second move, this time made some more searches and arrested the three suspects. Regina Labega, Fabian Badejoe and Erica Fortuno.
The prosecutor’s office through its spokesman Gino Bernadina confirmed the arrest of the trio.
The fourth suspect Edward Dest appeared before the court on March 25th 2015 and was sentenced to one day prison sentence.
Source: St. Martin News Network
BREAKING NEWS: Sent home Director of PJIAE Regina Labega arrested in the Colade investigation — Badejoe and Fortuno also arrested.
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