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Following a protracted and complex investigation by ACC investigators and subsequent prosecution, the following individuals were sentenced today, 19th April 2023, by Chief Justice Hon. Margaret Ramsay-Hale in the Grand Court as follows:
Canover Norbert Watson (Sentenced in relation to 6 counts including Secret Commissions, Money Laundering and False Accounting)
• 3.5 years imprisonment for Secret Commissions
• 2 years imprisonment each; for three counts of Transferring Criminal Property (Money Laundering) which are to run consecutively to the sentence of Secret Commissions.
• 4.5 years imprisonment for two counts of False Accounting which are to run consecutively to the sentence for Secret Commissions and concurrently in relation to the offences of Transferring Criminal Property (Money Laundering).
This resulted in an overall sentence of 8 years imprisonment.
Bruce Andrew Blake (Sentenced in relation to 2 counts of False Accounting)
• 2 years imprisonment for the offence of False Accounting.
• 18 months imprisonment for the offence of False Accounting to run concurrently.
This resulted in an overall sentence of 2 years imprisonment.
Both individuals were then remanded in custody following sentencing.
The ACC invites any member of the public to report any acts of corruption by email to info@anticorruptioncommission.ky.