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The sentencing date for convicted former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Andrew Fahie, has been pushed back following a request from his attorney due to a conflict with a paid vacation she had already booked.
On Thursday, Theresa Van Vliet in asking a Miami court for a later sentencing date, also cited the need for more time to finalise potential objections to the pre-sentencing report and requested that the date be moved from April 29 to a date in late June instead.
Based on her request, Judge Kathleen Williams granted the motion and agreed to reset the sentencing hearing for June 25.
Fahie was convicted on charges of conspiring to import cocaine and related money-laundering and racketeering charges after his trial culminated on February 8 in a unanimous guilty verdict.
Fahie was held with Oleanvine Maynard, the former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority, in Miami after the two conspired with Maynard’s son Kadeem Stephan Maynard.
The trio agreed to allow large amounts of cocaine to pass through the BVI’s ports as part of a multi-million dollar deal the trio made with an informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who was posing as a drug trafficker at the time.
The sentencing for Oleanvine Maynard had been postponed but for different reasons.
Maynard admitted guilt over her role in the plot and agreed to testify against Fahie in exchange for a lighter punishment.
Maynard’s son Kadeem was sentenced on November 20, 2023, to serve 57 months in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to a single count of conspiracy to import cocaine.