Former Government minister Donville Inniss is still facing three counts of money laundering in the United States.
But the United States Justice Department has removed a theory within the indictment which would have formed part of its prosecution of the Barbadian businessman.
In another section of the press last week, it was reported that the Eastern District of New York had dropped one of the charges against Inniss, but public information officer for the US Department of Justice, John Marzulli, is contending otherwise.
“No counts are being dismissed,” Marzulli stressed to THE NATION from his Brooklyn, New York office. (BA)
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