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U.S. Court Quashes All Subpoenas in So-Called “Corruption Discovery” Matter
– Ruling fully vindicates Prime Minister Browne, his family, and Government officials –
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda welcomes today’s decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which quashed every subpoena issued at the request of Yulia Guryeva-Motlokhov—daughter of the sanctioned Russian national who owned the super-yacht Alfa Nero—against Prime Minister Gaston Browne, members of his family, senior Government officers, and several private companies.
In a detailed Memorandum Opinion and Order, Judge Jesse M. Furman held that the applicant “failed to meet the statutory requirements for relief” under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. As a result, the Court:
- Quashed the subpoenas in their entirety;
- Vacated its earlier ex parte order that had authorised the subpoenas; and
- Directed the applicant’s counsel to arrange the prompt destruction of any material already produced.
This ruling confirms what the Government has said from the outset: the application had no merit, no legal foundation, and no legitimate purpose. It was a fishing expedition aimed at harassing the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, its Prime Minister, and others through false and malicious allegations.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne stated: “Today’s decision is complete vindication. The Court has confirmed that these subpoenas were never justified. We will always defend the integrity of our institutions and the good name of those who serve them.”
Attorney-General Sir Steadroy Benjamin added: “The Court’s order speaks for itself: the applicant could not satisfy even the basic legal threshold. We trust this outcome will deter any future attempts to weaponise foreign court processes against Antigua and Barbuda.”
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda remains firmly committed to transparency, the rule of law, and the highest standards of public accountability. At the same time, it will vigorously oppose any effort—domestic or foreign—to tarnish the reputations of its officials or to coerce the nation into abandoning decisions made in the best interests of the people of Antigua and Barbuda.
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we still need to know how come the board secretary’s (who signed approval for the sale) law firm received $300,000 USD in legal fees
What next from the propagandists and their foreign allies? It’s time for new updated laws against misinformation , disinformation and fake news outlets/radio stations
Serpent really be ah Monumental dunce. He spent hours and hours on his Observer radio wit the likes of jailman Zizi ah chat bout Alfa Nero this and Alfa Nero dat…. And there was soo much corruption with the sale of the yacht. Then he run and hide from Parliament where he could Actually ask the PM Gaston questions on Alfa Nero.
Now this ruling totally squash all the nonsense he been chatting. Serpent really FLOP as St Georges MP.
Dem UPP politicians take politics too far when they start tear down the country’s image. Just be truthful
I suggest we wait until we can review a formal court document. Is that available?
UPP will.stop at nothing to destroy the very country they say they want to.govern.
amh at those desperate,reckless UPP vampires
In the mean time we have waisted hundreds of thousands of United States Dollars in Lawyer Fees. And who is to blame for all of this? UPP. Worst opposition party ever. They don’t even know how and on what to oppose. What are they trying to sell the voting public other then the ABLP is corrupt and bad for the country. Without giving any proof of any corruption. They keep telling us the country is doing bad, but several external agencies such as IMF, CDB, ECCB, ECLAC and others keep on praising our countries economic performance as being the fasted in the Caribbean accept for Guyana. Do they believe in their own lies? I wonder. Monies that could have been used to pay salaries and wages or fixed roads has gone to rich lawyers in the United States. Even WIOC had to come up with over US$200K. All that because of malicious envious badmindedness. Our God doesn’t sleep. They cannot be honest in opposition, what you think will happen if they ever gain the government of this country. God Help US. Not them again.
The Gaston Browne fan girls typing they long winded comments trying to spin this bet them go say Gassy pay off the judge he money loooonnggggg nf after all they still believe he has the 4.5 BILLION US DOLLARS that came in the belly of the plane
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Can someone check on Franz?
He thought this was going to be the end of Gaston Browne.
Good news,
UPP sarl NF. What next dem go chy.
Prime Minister now it’s time to SUE KNIGHT, OBSERVER RADIO,VERE BIRD 111 , CHAQU , MAGIC ( JAIL BIRD) JOAN McEWEN , PROGRESSIVE RADI D.GISEL ISAAC ,JAQUI QUINN and Others.
Well. I guess a so it go. Let’s see what’s next.
This is a pivotal judgment and a big victory for the Prime Minister and the other defendants. Let’s hope that this marks the end of this saga. The final cost to tax payers is yet to be seen.
Man Gaston Browne you obeya man trangga than Gad. Well done they can never catch you, no matter how hard they try you smarter than them anyday. Tell them wheel and come again.
Well well, so all that noise come to nothing now?
This whole case always did feel shaky from the start.
If the subpoenas get thrown out, that mean the evidence weak or what?
Me nah know what to believe again. One minute is scandal, next minute is nothing.
So who going answer for all the reputations that get dragged?
If it was a real corruption case, why the subpoenas couldn’t stand?
WHAT THE HELL…! …RULING OF VINDICATION…? …NEWS PORTAL (NOT ANR) ‘…MISLEADING LIKE HELL:
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FROM A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE, THIS NEWS STORY APPEARS ‘…MISLEADING LIKE HELL.’
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CHALLENGE TO ‘…AUTHORS AND PUBLISHING EDITORS’ TO REFUTE THESE:
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TYPES OF SUBPOENAS:
GIVEN THE TWO TYPES OF ‘…SUBPOENAS’ IN THE UNITED STATES JURISDICTION, WAS THE PRIME MINISTER:
(i) ‘…SUBPOENAED TO TO HAND OVER ‘…TANGIBLE EVIDENCE? and
(ii) …SUbPOENAED TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT?’
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SIMPLE ANSWER:
THE VERY ‘…SIMPLE ANSWER’ IS ‘…NO.’
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FIRST OF THE SUBPOENAS:
(i) ‘…ANY US DISTRICT COURT MAY ORDER ‘…ENTITIES’ WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION TO HAND OVER: inter alia
(a) ‘…DOCUMENTS:
(b) …PICTURES:
(c) …VIDEOS:
(d) …TAPE RECORDINGS:
(e) …TEST RESULTS:
(f) …BANK RECORDS:
(g) …CORPORATE DOCUMENTS: or
(h) … ACCOUNTING STATEMENTS>’
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INAPPLICABLE TO THE PRIME MINISTER:
SINCE THE ‘…PRIME MINISTER:
(i) ‘…WAS NOT AN ENTITY: and
(ii) …OPERATED NO ENTITY IN UNITED STATES JURISDICTION:
(a) ‘…HE COULD NOT HAVE bBEEN: and
(b) …WAS NEVER SO ‘…SUBPOENAED.’
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(ii) ‘…THE SECOND TYPE OF SUBPOENA:
FROM PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE (Right here in this Jurisdiction), this ‘…TYPE OF SUBPOENA’ WAS:
(a) ‘…WHERE A JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE:
(b) …ISSUED AN ORDER FROM THE BENCH: and
(c) …THEREBY ‘…COMMANDING A PERSON TO APPEAR BEFORE THE ‘COURT’ (even in his/her Pyjamas): to
(d) …TESTIFY BEFORE THE COURT.’
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NO SUCH ISSUANCE:
THAT WHICH COULD NEVER BE REFUTED ARE THESE FACTS:
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(a) ‘… THE UNITED STATES COURT HAVE NO SUCH ‘…JUDICIAL JURISDICTION’ OVER ANY ‘…WORLD LEADER, LET ALONE ‘…PRIME MINISTER, GASTON BROWNE:
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(b) THE ‘PRIME MINISTER’ WAS NEVER SO ISSUED SUBPOENAS:
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(b) …HE WAS NEVER SO ORDERED: and
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(c) …NEITHER HIM NOR MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY, IN THEIR PERSONA, WERE EVER PLACED BEFORE:
(i) ‘…ANY UNITED STATES COURT:
(ii) …NOR HEARINGS BEING CONDUCTED AGAINST THEM:
(i) ‘…NEITHER IN ATTENDANCE: nor
(ii) …IN ABSENTIA.’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
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APPARENT INTENTIONAL MISLEADING ATTEMPT
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NOTWITHSTANDING THE SOURCE OF THIS NEWS REPORT, GIVEN ITS:
(a) ‘…APPARENT INTENTIONAL MISLEADING ATTEMPT:
(b) …THE ‘PRIME MINISTER’ MAY WISH TO GUIDE BETTER UNDERSTANDING:
(c) JUST AS ‘…FORMER DPP ANTHONY ARMSTRONG’ HAD DONE THROUGH THIS VERY NEWS PORTAL.’
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HE KNOWS THAT:
(a) ‘…NO CIVIL SUIT WAS FILED AGAINST HIM ET AL:
(b) …NEVER ON TRIAL -CIVIL/CRIMINAL: and thus
(b) …THERE COULD HAVE BEEN ‘…NO VINDICATION’ AS APPEARED ‘…MISLEADINGLY’ REPORTED.’
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REPORT GOOD.
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WALK/DRIVE GOOD, TOO.
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what de LIPSTICK HAG have to say about this? She was banking on her orchestrated witch hunt to get her party into office, but it backfired in she wicked evil face.
A real CHAOS DEMON just like Tabor labeled her to be.
She and her party will stop at nothing to rape and ravage Antigua all in a quest for power.
Franz need 2 good lash with he own bullbud. Busy spreading lies and propaganda about the PM. At least Gaston can spell “grateful”
My way of helping, I am awaiting your post re the strong case you argued the Russuan lady had
I’m happy that justice has been served because I don’t know how a PEP could take the government to court for the sale of a yacht that the US government allowed.
This decision not only solidifies the lawful sale of Alpha Nero, but also reinforces Antigua’s growing reputation for sound governance and legal maturity. Rather than facing backlash, the country has demonstrated it can handle complex global matters responsibly, potentially turning this moment into a diplomatic and reputational asset. Just another feather in our hat.
Gassy, please do not attempt to mislead.
There is no vindication.
Vindication comes after a trial.
There has not been one.
The vindication would have come if you had willingly submitted documents requested and a trial found you clean.
You cannot be vindicated after so much orotestation.
May I remind the producers of this portal that it is not only the small brains of laboRATs who read the “news”.
All are not as easily fooled as the laboRATs.
OVERBEARING PRIME MINISTER INCOMING!!!
Will Browne humble he-self, or will we have to put up with more of his dry and borish MACROLOGY?
Just mek sure you pay your legal team and not the hard-pressed tax payer. Tarl!
Prime Minister , Sue Stupid BRIXTONIAN
@Kunta Kinte
WELL SAID!
@ PETE, I pay my fair share of taxes, and you might like your tax paying dollars (if you pay any that is) going on Gaston Browne’s whimsical and fastidious nonsense. But I don’t!!!
You Gastonian forelock tugger and shoe 👞 licker 👅…
What about the Sherma woman who was on FB almost daily acting like a quasi lawyer?
Woiiii!
Gaston found di remedy fi silence di enemy.
There are MANY faults to criticize about Gaston but you lose credibility when you make them up.
Stick to the issues affecting the country and stop the witch hunting.
Those bastard traitors in the UPP who were willing to destroy our name and reputation should be publicly identified and given the treatment usually reserved for those Enemies of State (EOS) who commit treason.
still corrupt but he’s smart and know how to cover his tracks. like the money he’s using to build that massive house at Marble Hill worth millions. I don’t know what he’s trying to prove with that house he just nuff
You sound BITTER, BADMINDED, FOOLISH and HATEFUL. No wonder mass whipped your great-great-great-grandfather so hard.
@Brixtonian June 4, 2025 At 5:33 pm
Where have you been all this time. I really have missed you. Isn’t sad to see your party have to swallow this one again. Like Jacqui said before the election, “Teck that inna you nennen”.
But I really hope the Prime Minister has enough evidence against those in Antigua and Barbuda, whom he accused are the UPP member, to sue them untill they broke. Because we have to draw the line somewhere. We cannot try to tarnish a person’s character so much, all because of political expedience. is power we hungry for so. Why not come up with a better economic plan or what that people can see that you are a better party to run the affairs of the country. But NO, all they do is to tear down the other person. Make all sorts of baseless and unsubstantiated allegations. And like they did with Lester Bird tarnish his character to the point where many believed them. And when they got in office, they never spoke about it. But the damage was done. A man’s reputation is all he has. And when you damage that!
@Brixtonian June 4, 2025 At 6:14 pm
@ PETE, I pay my fair share of taxes, and you might like your tax paying dollars (if you pay any that is) going on Gaston Browne’s whimsical and fastidious nonsense. But I don’t!!!
Brix I guess you like your tax dollars to pay for a Electricity Plant that cost us US$50Million that never worked. You like for your tax dollar to go pay for a mile of Road that cost $10Million around the stadium. Or you like for your tax dollars to pay for Jelly Beans Sidewalks costing us $900million. I mean you don’t mind your tax dollars paying for a Romantic Rhythm show costing us $7million and never have been accounted for. I mean we have so many wastage under the UPP that it will be years before we can earn back these monies. Weston used to say, “every deal was a steal”, under their governance. When will you stop the hatred and speak without bile in your heart. It will kill you.
No matter what side of the political divide you are on, when it comes to the reputation of Antigua & Barbuda, it is not just Gaston Brown or his family or Cabinet members who has to suffer the consequences of a bad reputation. Even our students abroad must feel a kind of way when we hear of unbecoming behavior of our leaders. When we travel and ask where we are from, it is with great pride we answer and not with what a government is doing, good or bad. This is because people know all governments have citizens that they might not favor those in power; so that might be the least of someone’s reasons for asking. Instead, it is the other things that make us proud and more so the reason we have a top notch brand of tourism because of ‘the people’. The government is the facilitator and the ‘people’ the executors.
It is no coincidence that ‘it is everybody’s business’. Instead we are letting something that should have been resolved nationally became ‘everybody else’s business’ outside of our borders; and that is a disgrace.
I am for true democracy and a viable opposition party but they must be guided by integrity, honesty and respect, even if they abhor their opponents. We the citizens as well are embarrassed and it is unfair to us to pay for something that was uncalled for. We have a very literate population and highly trained legal minds that could have requested the information needed from the ‘Freedom of Information Act’ and in a public forum, discussed this and banter about it rather than the course of action taken. I would have much rather pay even some of the legal minds that were calling for the PM’s head on a platter (The Thurd) to have gotten some of this legal fees to just really commentate over this issue and give the public a chance to understand. Not a chance to cuss and make defamatory comments, even personal attack even about the children of the PM. (The Thurd calling them his grandchildren).
If the Opposition would have taken a more serious approach, they might have even helped their self-image evolve to involve the people in a meaningful way rather than disgraceful back and forth that is tantamount to unintelligent rhetoric.
If the Opposition wants to hammer the ABLP or the PM, fear game! However, giving white multimillionaires ammunition against the country and disguising it as going after the PM is fools gold. The Caucasian people involved here could care less about our wellbeing or our reputation. When it comes to corruption, they themselves cannot even call the kettle black, allegedly. This is most certainly an Uncle Tom response by the UPP Leadership. This is like the house niggars in colonial times. Ready to have a field negro embarrassed or even die.
An Opposition is necessary to Democracy, use it wisely, and stop being emotionally immature about how you handle delicate matters that can have consequences that we cannot afford to cash literally and metaphorically.