
Paradise Bust: Scandal in the British Virgin Islands
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The BVI Drug Trade
Only a small number of islanders are directly involved in the drugs trade. Others are frustrated by the association which they fear will ruin the BVI's reputation. Drug seizures are frequent, and one cocaine consignment found in a policeman's backyard during COVID had a street value of quarter of a billion dollars. Justine Foxy's daughter first came into contact with Andrew Foy, not as the leader of his country, but as a teenager she lived with. She remembers him as someone who had status even then.
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