ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government has denied media reports that Dawood Ibrahim, a notorious Pakistani terrorist is the holder of a local passport.
“The Government has not granted, and denies that it granted, economic citizenship or a passport to Mr. Ibrahim. More importantly, the security and due process measures in place would make it impossible for a notorious criminal and wanted terrorist to be granted economic citizenship or passport. The allegation is totally false,” according to a Government Information Service (GIS) statement.
“In view of the clear measures in place, and the measures taken to protect the security of the Commonwealth and other sovereign states, there is strong and compelling reason to believe that this allegation is part of the ongoing conspiracy by some to destroy the reputation of the country for their own partisan gain and purposes by any means necessary.”
GIS said that the source of the mis-information is Thompson Fontaine and that the government demands that he “and others who are peddling this fabrication to the region and world produce immediately the evidence to substantiate the allegation”.
It gave no details as to the identity of Fontaine..
“The Government of Dominica intends to conduct inquiries to get to the bottom of this scandalous attack on the integrity of the Nation and seek legal advice as to whether any criminal or civil proceedings can be instituted against Dr. Thompson Fontaine and others involved in this attack against Dominica,” GIS added.
