Enrico Woolford
A Guyanese Canadian woman Ingrid Rosemary Innes was on Wednesday September 30th 2026 sentenced and fined for conspiracy to launder money in order to bribe a then Barbadian government minister. The money was sent from a Bermuda account to a Dental Office in Elmont NY.
The judge in the NY Eastern District heard an expression of remorse, and the fact that the 71 year old mother of 3 and grandmother of 6 is being treated in Canada for pancreatic cancer. The Guyanese Canadian woman received a sentence of time served and although possessing assets over one million dollars which includes a wine collection valued at 90,000 dollars was ordered to pay a $7000 fine.
Ingrid Innes nee Kassim was born in Guyana and lived in Duke Street Kingston Georgetown but later migrated to Canada.
She was a senior executive at the Insurance Corporation of Barbados. It was in that position she caused several thousand dollars to be transferred to the then Minister of Industry Donville Inniss in order to obtain favorable government contracts.
Donville Inniss was convicted, served time and sent back to Barbados.
A third defendant Alex Tasker is still fighting extradition from Barbados.