IS SALDIVAR NEXT?

Former LA Armenian Mafia Leader Sentenced to 40 years Billion-dollar biofuel tax scheme

The UDP’s former leader albeit for 72hours must be losing sleep as his former associate Lev Dermen was sentenced to 40 years in prison. John Saldivar who stripped of pretty much everything including his dignity was associated with this now-convict. Saldivar has denied to what everyone can distinguish as corruption including the US state department who last year stripped Saldivar of his US Visa and the little of had left of said dignity. The electorate of Belmopan had stripped most of the tranche-man’s dignity as Oscar Mira politically mauled him from his Belmopan seat.

Lev Dermen is a Los Angeles-based, Armenian businessman made news during his tax fraud trial in early February 2020, when former Minister of National Security John Saldivar was named as receiving money in 25k tranches from him. Lev Dermen has now been received a forty-year prison sentence. Dermen was one of five persons sentenced for the roles they played in the Utah bio-fuel tax conspiracy. The others are Dermen’s business partners, Jacob Kingston, who was sentenced to eighteen years; Isaiah Kingston, who received twelve years; Rachel Kingston, who received seven years; and Sally Kingston, who got a sixyear sentence. They were sentenced on April 7 after they were found guilty of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering. Plus, Dermen was ordered to pay over four hundred thousand dollars in restitution to the I.R.S. and a money judgment of more than a hundred and eighty thousand dollars against him. Politically here in Belize this looks bad for Saldivar who had boated Dermen in a Coast Guard boat which was donated by the US government. This is a super no-no.

The U.S accused Saldivar of accepting bribes for the improper acquisition of Belizean immigration documents and that he interfered in public processes for his personal benefit during his tenure as a government official. Saldivar and his immediate family members were effectively banned from setting foot on U.S. soil. Saldivar challenges the United States to show proof but the damage is made. Barrow has tried to get rid of him as a political candidate but Saldivar is liked but the few UDPs left. The Belmopan convention showed that another Saldivar run will result in another shellacking at the hands of worker and representative Oscar Mira.