DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
This week the news from New York involved the conviction of one Emmanuel 'Toto' Constant, found guilty of more than $1m in mortgage fraud. This is not unusual, unless you know who Mr. Constant is; a former leader of a brutal Haitian paramilitary unit, known by the acronym FRAPH, that assassinated scores of people in Haiti, solely because they were supporters of another political faction. Should this PEP ever be extradited to Haiti, his chances of a swift conviction and long prison sentence are assured. In New York, he's just another white-collar criminal, but in Haiti, he is regarded as an evil human rights violator of the first order.
The lesson here is that when performing due diligence or customer identification techniques, one needs to always look at an individual's World-Check profile very closely, for there may be other sins and transgressions even more evil than the minor one you believe the target was involved in, with far worse potential reputational damage.
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