Ingrid Innes is a Canadian citizen and resident of Barbados. She was the Chief Executive Officer of ICBL.
Alex Tasker was a citizen of Barbados, who was a senior vice president of ICBL.
According to the DOJ, between August 2015 and April 2016, ICBL made improper payments to a Barbadian government official to obtain insurance contracts. ICBL earned approximately $93,940 in net profits from the alleged scheme.
The Barbadian government official was identified by the DOJ as Donville Inniss, who allegedly received the bribes from ICBL, including from Innes and Tasker, and used his influence to direct the contracts to ICBL. Inniss allegedly hid the bribes by directing them to the account of a U.S.-based dental company owned by a friend, which had no actual business with ICBL.
On August 23, 2018, the DOJ issued a declination letter to ICBL, pursuant to which it agreed to disgorge $93,940.19 in profits from the scheme. The DOJ noted that high-level corporate officers were involved in the alleged scheme, but it decided to close its investigation based on ICBL’s timely voluntary self-disclosure, comprehensive investigation, cooperation, remedial efforts, and compliance program improvement. This represents the first declination with disgorgement after the formalization of the FCPA Pilot program in the DOJ Attorneys’ Manual.
In a related matter, on March 15, 2018, charges were filed against Inniss in the Eastern District of New York for one count of conspiracy to launder money and two counts of money laundering. On August 23, 2018, two additional defendants were added to the matter, but their names have been redacted. On August 1, 2019, the indictment was unsealed and the charges against Innes and Tasker were announced. Inniss was found guilty at trial in 2020 and was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $36,536 on April 27, 2021.