Extradition case continues

Arguments on issues of “hearsay” dominated today’s sitting in the extradition case involving former insurance executive Alex Tasker.

Tasker’s attorneys Andrew Pilgrim Q.C. and Neville Reid along with Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale and Senior Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas made those legal arguments today  before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes concerning evidence given by other parties in the matter.

However, given the length of time that the matter has taken so far, the two sides agreed to submit further legal positions in writing with regard to their cases.

The defence team will file and serve its submissions on the prosecution on July 28. Seale and his team will respond on August 11. They will then return before the No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on August 19.

Tasker, a former senior manager at the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd. (ICBL), is before the court following a request for his extradition to the United States to stand trial on money laundering charges.

Prosecutors allege that between August 2015 and April 2016 he conspired with others to launder money in the US from outside the country in violation of US law.

Tasker remains on $200,000 bail with conditions.