{"id":9022,"date":"2017-11-09T06:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2017-11-09T06:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:58:24","slug":"yida-discontinues-legal-action-against-boustany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/yida-discontinues-legal-action-against-boustany\/","title":{"rendered":"Yida discontinues legal action against Boustany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The country\u2019s\u00a0<\/b>former Honourary Consul to Miami and Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Gilbert Boustany has cleared the air on recent reports that he is being sued by the Yida group.<\/span><\/p>

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Antigua News Room<\/i>\u00a0(ANR) received a copy of a High Court document which outlined that Yida Zhang had filed a suit against Boustany and four other defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other defendants named in the claim are: Smith\u2019s Gore BVI Ltd, Lux location\u2019s Ltd, Sam Dyson and Nadia Dyson.<\/span><\/p>

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According to the document, the case management conference is set down for November 14, 2017.<\/span><\/p>

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However, ANR contacted Boustany via email for clarity on the issue and he said him being named in the suit is a misunderstanding due to the language barrier of the investor, a Chinese national.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boustany told ANR that after making inquiries about the matter the case has since been discontinued against him.<\/span>The suit has also been dropped against Smith\u2019s Gore BVI Ltd.<\/span><\/p>

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Ambassador Gilbert Boustany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI learned about some action being taken from Mr Yida against myself and some others, early last month, and travelled to Antigua to immediately meet with Mr Yida and his attorney, only to learn that it was an honest misunderstanding due to his language barrier, and hence I was immediately discontinued from the case,\u201d Boustany said in his email.<\/span><\/p>\n

He sent a copy of the notice of discontinuance dated October 4, 2017, and with an official stamp of the High Court. <\/span><\/p>

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The notice reads: \u201cTAKE NOTICE that the Claimant wholly discontinues this action against the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0Defendant, GILBERT BOUSTANY and the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Defendant, Smith\u2019s Gore BVI Ltd herein.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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The document is signed by Damien Benjamin of the law firm Steadroy CO Benjamin & CO Solicitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

This case is a counter-suit which stems from a previous case where the Yida group was ordered by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court to pay\u00a0US$5.4 million to Lux Locations Limited.<\/p>\n

The Court ruled in the favour of the real estate company, Lux Locations, which argued that Yida owed it a nine per cent commission on US$60 million sale of the Asian Village Antigua Limited lands.<\/p>\n

The lands were bought from the Stanford Company liquidators.<\/p>\n

Yida is now suing new defendants in order to recover the funds to pay Lux Locations Ltd.<\/p>\n

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