Grenada Parliament passes extradition treaty bill with China which makes it easier to extradite criminals with CBI passport back to China.
The bill, Extradition Treaty (Government of Grenada and the Government of The People’s Republic China) Bill, 2018 was passed in Parliament last Friday after being presented by Minister of Legal Affairs, Kindra Maturine-Stewart who described the treaty as a mutual arrangement between Grenada and the China.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter David pointed out that the Bill will compliment Grenada’s passport selling scheme known as Citizenship by Investment (CBI).
“These issues arise sometimes with our CBI programme, there’s a lot of talk about CBI and persons who not above board. This legislation here is an indication that we are prepared to do everything to ensure that persons who come into Grenada, persons who transact business in Grenada, persons who become citizens of Grenada possibly under the CBI programme, if it is found that they have done something that is against the law of another country, in this case, China, we are prepared to deal with it…”, he said.
Minister David said “persons who come into our shores, persons who acquire citizenship, persons who do business in Grenada will not leave from where they have committed their crimes to come to us…”.
“… We would do everything to ensure that as we develop, as we attract tons of investment, we want clean, proper investors to this country so that we can develop Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique”, he added.
The Extradition Bill is also expected to be passed into law in China.
Grenada signed visa waiver with ChinaFebruary 25, 2015.. Effective June 10, 2015, Grenadian passport holders waived of visa requirement to travel to the People’s Republic of China.
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